Read the full article, which includes details on efforts to measure
how animal control programs can affect different segments of cat populations.
Not exact matches
How our barn cat
program started: Saving Cats at Gardner
Animal Control
Sales, promotion and marketing strategies can move the dial to some degree on shaping the public's pet preference, but with a publicly funded spay / neuter
program, there is complete
control over to whom and
how you target the resource in order to affect the number, sources and even types of
animals entering the shelter to begin with.
We welcome feedback and suggestions from shelters and
animal control organizations on
how to improve our
program and for examples of successful strategies that may benefit others.
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.
Given that a number of other
animal control programs and regulatory changes were implemented during the study period, separating out the effects of a single
program may be impossible... Data were not collected on
how many adoptable versus nonadoptable cats were impounded, so it was not possible specifically to assess changes in outcomes for feral cats, only changes in overall cat outcomes... it can be stated that the implementation of sterilization of feral cats as part of a TNR
program did not result in negative changes.