Sentences with phrase «high cat populations»

On a community level, TNR best reduces cat populations and nuisance complaints when resources, including trappers, spay / neuter surgeries and outreach, are targeted at sections of the community with high cat populations.

Roney said the high cat population means increased costs for everything from medicine to food for the animals.

Not exact matches

By piggybacking on rabies vaccination programs, this vaccine could provide population control in places where high - volume surgical sterilization for dogs and cats is still decades away, or even in places where dogs and cats are viewed as vermin and providing medical care to them may not be considered valuable.

The best way to attempt to restore your cat's bacterial flora is through a process called microbiota transplantation (FMT), in which a complete, healthy bacterial population is transferred by high enema from a healthy pet to your pet.

How - to: Mass Trapping for Feral Cats New York City caregivers trap and alter an entire colony at one time to achieve the highest impact on the population.

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.

Even if this estimate is too low because companion animals other than dogs and cats are not included in the estimate or because the fraction of needy companion animals is higher in areas with fewer resources, a revised estimate would still probably be quite low compared to the populations of farm and wild animals.

Unless it's performed with very high levels of resources and manpower and addresses over 50 % of a targeted population on an ongoing basis, it doesn't offset the root of the problem: continued reproduction of un-trapped unsterilized cats.

High population of cats will pose an economic challenge.

A recently published study shows that adoption and targeted TNR (matching a target population to available resources in order to achieve a high sterilization rate, which is necessary to achieve population stabilization and reduction) resulted in a 66 % reduction in shelter cat impoundment over 2 years.

In 2012, the new grant program will help 65 non-profit spay / neuter clinics around the nation provide high - quality, affordable spay / neuter surgeries for more than 23,000 cats and pit bull terriers during February and August — ultimately reducing the homeless pet population by tens of thousands of at - risk cats and dogs that would otherwise wind up in shelters because of unplanned litters, said Susana Della Maddalena, executive director of

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.

«The proportion of a cat population that would have to be sterilized to produce a decline is typically higher than most trapping efforts could ever realistically hope to achieve,» says Wisconsin's Temple.

It's difficult enough to show a direct link between observed predation and population impacts; suggesting a causal connection between high cat densities and declining bird populations is misleading and irresponsible.

We modelled the potential threats to the northern bettong and determined that predation by feral cats has the highest potential to cause bettong population declines, with juvenile mortality rates impacting bettong population stability more than adult mortality.

Chris Johnson, Professor of Wildlife at University of Tasmania, said toxoplasmosis was present in 80 to 90 per cent of the state's feral cat population - one of the highest rates of the disease in the world.

They are killing birds and small mammals in large numbers and the ubiquity of the toxoplasmosis parasite in the environment is tied to high populations of feral cats as well.»

According to the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care, when CPR is done according to established guidelines, survival to discharge can be as high as 50 % in some populations of dogs and cats in CPA with acute, reversible disease.

With 29 % of Welsh households owning at least one cat — higher than the UK average of 24 % - and an estimated UK feline population of 11.1 million *, Cats Protection hopes that cat owners will get behind the manifesto to call on key policy - makers to protect cats from abandonment, harm and neglCats Protection hopes that cat owners will get behind the manifesto to call on key policy - makers to protect cats from abandonment, harm and neglcats from abandonment, harm and neglect.

In a world where most dogs and cats were intact and a high percentage of them were free - roaming, shelter killing was about the only means that communities had to contain pet population.

The number of cats that are not fed is uncounted, and the total community cat population may be even higher.

The number of homeless cats stayed high, possibly due to migration back and forth between the domestic and feral cat populations.

Our population can vary from a few cats and dogs to an all time high of 15 cats and 20 dogs.

It's relatively uncommon in the general cat population, but the disease rate can be higher in shelters or catteries.

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.

Consequently, cat populations reach high densities near human settlements, so they impose relatively strong hunting pressure on prey populations (Baker et al. 2005; Sims et al. 2008; Thomas et al. 2012).

Recent evolutionary history of cats parallels that of modern human populations, particularly the recently urbanized indigenous populations that have very high incidences of insulin resistance and diabetes.

Therefore, proposals that seek funding for neuter - before adoption projects are likely to receive a lower priority score than projects that are likely to reach new target populations at high risk for contributing to cat and dog overpopulation.

Diverting the high - risk community cat population at intake to sterilization / vaccination / ear tip programs and releasing them back to their original neighborhoods creates a dramatic and immediate decrease to shelter intake.

On islands and in fragmented urban and suburban habitats unnaturally high densities of cats are not only capable of reducing or eradicating populations of birds and small mammals, they can out - compete native predators like foxes and weasels.

The number of cats that are not fed is uncounted, therefore the total community cat population is likely even higher and may equal or exceed the number of pet cats in some communities.

Because FeLV and FIV testing is costly - financially and emotionally - and because the incidence of these diseases in the feral cat population is no higher than in pet cats, many organizations opt not to test and to put the money saved into spay / neuter instead.

For those jurisdictions, an abnormally high «live release» rate may signify mainly that they still have a long way to go in preventing surplus cat and dog births, abandonments, the growth of feral cat populations, and dog attacks.

However, infection rates remain high in some unvaccinated cat populations, and the disease occasionally is seen in vaccinated, pedigreed kittens that have been exposed to a high virus challenge.

White - haired, blue - eyed cats have a higher incidence of deafness than the general feline population.

As the staff member with primary responsibility for topics related to the welfare of companion animals, early spay / neuter and population control of dogs and cats are high priority issues.

Here we see that the conclusion is «The influx of subsidized cats to natural habitats, combined with their high vagility and low trappability, makes TNR an unlikely solution for controlling feral cats on a large, rugged island like Catalina and, more generally, in other locations where human populations abut ecologically sensitive areas.»

At age two months there should be 12.9 survivors, roughly six females and seven males (at maturity, roughly 2/3 of the stray cat population is male, (6) due to the high mortality of females during first pregnancy and birth), which will decrease to four females over time.

What Legge meant by that, the University of Queensland summary of her findings explained, was that «in addition to strategic cat control in bushland areas,» where cats have already long been massacred as rapidly as they can be found, «there is a need to address feral cats in heavily urbanized areas where their population density could be 30 times higher than in natural environments.»

We argue that the behavioural capacity of feral cats to undertake long - distance excursions to exploit transient hunting opportunities results in significantly higher total predator pressure on prey, and helps to explain how low - density cat populations could have large impacts on small - mammal abundance at landscape scales.

Forty of these species are often present in urban or suburban landscapes, where impacts of high cat densities on bird populations have been demonstrated elsewhere.

He says overall, the number of birds and small animals being killed are high enough that cats and their hunting could be causing some wildlife populations to decline in some areas.

The higher cat densities observed near some developed areas may be spillover from overcrowded conditions associated with TNR colonies and unsterilized pets, which may affect native prey populations in areas immediately adjacent to colonies.

The influx of subsidized cats to natural habitats, combined with their high vagility and low trappability, makes TNR an unlikely solution for controlling feral cats on a large, rugged island like Catalina and, more generally, in other locations where human populations abut ecologically sensitive areas.

A study in cats with irritable bowel disease (IBD) showed that healthy cats had a much higher bacterial population in their gut compared to cats with IBD.

Some cats have a genetic predisposition to allergic dermatitis caused by environmental allergens (atopy), and pedigreed cats have a higher predisposition than cats in the general population, according to Dr. Miller.

Therefore, cat populations in the wild reach artificially high numbers and present a serious threat to native predators» ability to feed themselves and their young.

April saw nine Florida panthers killed by vehicles — the highest toll since officials have been trying to restore populations of the endangered cat.

Rabinowitz makes two points which really make you sit up: 1) conservation groups really need to be held accountable for their efforts at big cat conservation, and 2) even with massively reduced habitat tiger populations could be ten times higher than they are today.Rabinowitz says that the world's 2500 - 3000 wild tigers live on just 5 - 7 % of their former range, but even that small about of remaining habitat «could probably hold up to 30,000 tigers right now at reasonable densities.»

They occur in high numbers and their own predators, such as feral cats, do not have much effect on controlling possum population size.