Sentences with phrase «feral animal populations»

The goal of the Delaware SPCA's Spay / Neuter Clinics is to provide a non-lethal solution to the homeless, abandoned, and feral animal populations so that euthanasia is no longer an acceptable means of population control.

West Georgia Spay / Neuter Clinic's mission is to provide a non-lethal solution to the homeless, abandoned, and feral animal populations so that euthanasia is no longer an acceptable means of population control.

Oda said the bill is needed to allow farmers and ranchers to control feral animal populations without fear of being charged with animal cruelty.

Is to provide a non-lethal solution to the homeless, abandoned and feral animal populations, so that euthanasia is no longer an acceptable means of population control.

But the surgeries, which require animals to be anesthetized, can be expensive — one reason so many dogs and cats remain unfixed and feral animal populations continue to grow.

In 1986 she founded the Celia Hammond Animal Trust with the aim of opening a low cost neutering clinic to control the feral animal population.

Not exact matches

A substantial population of feral dromedaries, descended from pack animals that escaped in the 19th and early 20th centuries, thrives in the Australian interior today.

The feral cat population represents a unique challenge to the animal welfare community because most shelters and rescue groups seek to find homes for every homeless animal.

Feline distemper is most common where unvaccinated cats live in close proximity, such as in a pet store, an animal shelter, or a feral cat population.

I know a few years ago, there was a trap / spay / release program on the block and I was just wondering earlier today if it was still being done... it's the smartest way to keep the feral population under control while still remaining humane to the animals.

High - risk animals include dogs and cats less than six months old, bully breeds of dogs (as these breeds account for a significant portion of the intake population at Young - Williams) and «community» or feral cats.

Ideas for reducing the feral cat population include renting out an emergency animal clinic for use during nonoperating hours, setting up a mobile clinic and equipping shelters in DeLand and New Smyrna Beach with surgical clinics.

Montalbano also said he wants to eliminate controlled populations of neutered feral cats near colonies of endangered animals.

Project MEOW is an all - volunteer, animal welfare group that helps West Philadelphia residents to humanely reduce their feral and stray cat populations through Trap, Neuter and Return (TNR) of un-owned stray and feral (wild) cats.

Alley Cat Allies encourages communities to reject cruel, punitive, and ineffective ordinances and instead to embrace humane programs that really work to stabilize the population and keep cats out of animal shelters, including Trap - Neuter - Return for feral cats and subsidize and low - cost spay / neuter for all cats.

She changed the landscape of the animal welfare community of Santa Clara County by championing feral cats, and promoting the humane Trap / Neuter / Return method to control their populations.

Recognizing the over-population crisis of companion animals in the Nova Scotia, the Nova Scotia SPCA supports public and private humane efforts in controlling feral cat colonies and their population.

We focus on reaching pets in low - income and underserved communities, prioritizing aid for those animals at highest risk in local shelters, and supporting efforts to control feral cat populations.

We offer free spays and neuters for stray, homeless cats through the Feral Cat Coalition to help control the population of these animals in our neighborhoods.

The spaying and neutering of the animals in our care, thereby lowering the overall domestic and feral populations.

As part of this project, CFHS conducted a general population survey of Canadians, as well as a multi-stakeholder survey of animal care organizations, receiving data from municipalities, veterinarians, humane societies and SPCAs, rescue organizations, trap - neuter - return groups, spay / neuter groups and other organizations across Canada that help to house or care for unwanted, abandoned, stray and feral cats in Canada.

This study documents the positive impacts publically subsidized low - cost spay and neuter programs can have that often go unmet in communities: pet population control, leading to the prevention of the proliferation of feral dog and cat populations, slowing the flow of animals into shelters both voluntarily and through field services, and reduction in the incidence of humane destruction of animals.

Animal Rescue & Care Fund is devoted to reducing the stray and feral cat population in and around Portland.

«Euthanizing all community feral cats does not reduce the cat population and instead just creates a vacuum effect in which more cats come into the colony and take the place of those felines that are gone,» said Aiken County Animal Shelter (ACAS) Manager Bobby Arthurs.

Any individual or organization that promotes TNR or other methods of dealing with feral cats while letting them remain outdoors is promoting the decline of native populations of birds and small animals and then the eventual EXTINCTION of same.

Recognition of the human - animal bond that exists between caretakers and the feral cats they feed may facilitate the development of effective control programs for feral cat populations.

Because of the wide range of geographic and demographic needs, a wide variety of programs have been developed to increase delivery of spay - neuter services to targeted populations of animals, including stationary and mobile clinics, MASH - style operations, shelter services, feral cat programs, and services provided through private practitioners.

Internationally, large populations of feral cats constitute an important and controversial issue due to their impact on cat overpopulation, animal welfare, public health, and the environment, and to disagreement about what are the best methods for their control.

Impacts of Free - ranging Domestic Cats (Felis catus) on birds in the United States: A review of recent research with conservation and management recommendations (2009) HAHF cites the 2009 paper co-authored by former Smithsonian researcher Nico Dauphiné (who resigned after being found guilty of attempted animal cruelty last year, after rat poison was found in cat food outside her apartment building) as evidence of «the incredible impact of free ranging cats on the bird populations of the U.S.» Among the many flaws in «Impacts of Free - ranging Domestic Cats» was the authors» estimate of «117 to 157 million exotic predators,» which was based on David Jessup's inflated (and, not surprisingly, unattributed) «estimate» of «60 to 100 million feral and abandoned cats.»

We fulfill our mission by providing high - quality, affordable and accessible spay / neuter services while targeting the most prolific populations: stray animals, feral cats and unaltered pets whose owners do not have access to veterinary care.

«Identifying the threads that connect these parasites from wild and domestic land animals to marine mammals helps us to see ways that those threads might be cut... by, for example, managing feral cat and opossum populations, reducing run - off from urban areas near the coast, monitoring water quality and controlling erosion to prevent parasites from entering the marine food chain.»

First, I can not support diverting [the State's Animal Population Control Program Fund] funds from existing programs that have already proven effective for humanely controlling feral cat populations.

Traditionally, the approach used by Animal Control agencies to manage the feral cat population did not work.

In a newsletter circulated last Thursday, the Washington Humane Society's vice president of external affairs, Scott Giacoppo, wrote that the Wildlife Action Plan as proposed «would result in the rounding up and killing of feral cats — essentially a reversal back to the animal policies of the 1800s that were ultimately proven to have no impact on the population at all.»

In Washington, D.C., for example, the City Paper (September 15, 2015) reported on a controversial, regressive wildlife plan proposed by a city agency: ``... Washington Humane Society's vice president of external affairs, Scott Giacoppo, wrote that the Wildlife Action Plan as proposed «would result in the rounding up and killing of feral cats — essentially a reversal back to the animal policies of the 1800s that were ultimately proven to have no impact on the population at all.

It is not appropriate that responsible breeders pay to correct the government's inability to control the feral cat population, educate the public, provide low - cost spay / neuter programs, and prosecute animal smugglers and fighting dog breeders.

Because she felt so strongly that the huge feral cat population derived largely from an uncontrolled domestic cat population, she passionately believed that the establishment of low cost neuter clinics, such as those operating so effectively in Canada and the USA, would offer a humane solution to the ever increasing unwanted animal population in the UK.

The animal population focus at our Wellness Center is shelter, owned and feral cats as well as shelter and owned dogs and shelter and owned rabbits.

In 2003, Merritt Clifton of Animal People, an independent newspaper dedicated to animal protection issues, suggested that «up to a third of all pet cats now appear to be recruited from the feral population.&Animal People, an independent newspaper dedicated to animal protection issues, suggested that «up to a third of all pet cats now appear to be recruited from the feral population.&animal protection issues, suggested that «up to a third of all pet cats now appear to be recruited from the feral population.»

RCHS works to reduce the feral cat population in Routt County by trapping and neutering animals at the request of citizens.

Killing feral cats is just plain inhumane, not to mention a violation of the state's animal cruelty laws — and trap and kill doesn't work to reduce feral populations.

This method in no way will reduce the population of feral cats and means valuable animal control resources are spent trapping one or two cats and then housing and euthanizing them.

Pinellas County Commissioners and Pinellas County Animal Services endorse TNVR as the best means of controlling and reducing the feral cat population.

If food is eliminated in one colony, as one animal rescuer noted, «Any policy that bans feeding of these colonies will likely disperse these cats throughout our community, and the feral cat population will increase dramatically.»

In 2005, in fact, the City of Los Angeles Board of Animal Services adopted TNR as the «preferred method of dealing with feral cat populations.»

The Animal Law Coalition supports Trap - Neuter - Return, a humane method of reducing feral or stray cat populations.

Project TNR (Trap - Neuter - Release) applauds the Old Bridge Animal Rights Association (OBARA) for reaching out to the community to offer its services in managing the township's feral - cat population.

Work with your local animal control or feral cat group to help manage your neighborhood's community and stray cat populations.

A TNR program in Maricopa County, Arizona, called the «Maddie's Pet Rescue Project» was so successful the County Board of Supervisors issued a resolution stating: «Maricopa County Board of Supervisors does hereby endorse non - lethal trap - neuter - return, when accompanied by ongoing feral cat management, as the most effective, humane method of controlling feral cat populations in Maricopa County and in so doing better provides for the welfare of these animals while better serving our communities» public health and safety concerns.»

They worked to educate the township officials at numerous meetings about TNR, how the program would humanely reduce the population of feral cats and save the township animal control costs.