Sentences with phrase «increasing number of feral cats»

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The New York City Council yesterday passed a bill that would extend hours at animal rescue centers, seek to reduce the number of feral cats prowling city streets and increase the budget for animal services in the five boroughs.

A colony typically occupies and defends a specific territory where food and shelter are available, such as dumpsters or restaurants, beneath porches, or in abandoned buildings.Because a female cat can become pregnant as early as five months of age, the number of feral cats in a community can rapidly increase if cats aren't spayed or neutered.

Since a female cat can become pregnant as early as five months of age, the number of feral cats in a neighborhood can rapidly increase if cats aren't spayed or neutered.

The number of underfunded animal shelters, cat charity houses, and feral cat feeding stations increased dramatically - all housing large numbers of, stressed felines that were often forced to lived in crowded, unsanitary conditions.

All these groups believe the number of feral cats is increasing for want of high - volume spaying / neutering.

Global warming is also believed to be increasing feral cat numbers by extending the warmer part of each year during which they typically reproduce.

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Since 2007 the number of cats, most of them feral, brought in to city facilities has increased 17 percent - and 85 percent of those are newly born kittens, Barnette said.

The New York City Feral Cat Initiative is a coalition of more than 150 animal rescue groups and shelters whose joint mission is «to raise awareness about the thousands of... community cats living outdoors throughout NYC's five boroughs, to offer solutions to prevent the number of homeless cats from increasing, and to successfully manage existing colonies.»

Even in communities with much larger feral populations, the willingness of private veterinarians to handle a small number of cats on a consistent basis will allow the program to get under way while other efforts to increase spay / neuter capacity are pursued.»

The single most effective way to help control the feline overpopulation crisis and improve the health and living conditions of stray / feral cats is to increase the number of cats that are spayed / neutered.

On Santa Barbara Island, after feral cats were removed in 1978, numbers of Scripps's murrelets increased to approximately 1,500 in 1992.

As a result, it's frequently in danger of predation, especially by an increasing number of free - roaming and feral cats.