Sentences with phrase «number of outdoor cats»

This approach continues to fail, and the number of outdoor cats increases despite the fact that millions of vibrant, healthy outdoor cats are killed each year.

«Your preferred scenario,» concludes Longcore, «which apparently is to refuse to allow cats to be taken to shelters, would in fact result in a massive increase in the number of outdoor cats.»

It can also be useful to remind people that, paradoxically, euthanizing outdoor cats doesn't reduce the number of outdoor cats over time, but sterilization does — and return - to - field only returns already existing outdoor cats, minus annoying urine marking and breeding behaviors.

But now, lower intakes lead to «a massive increase in the number of outdoor cats»?

The common thinking about cats is that their numbers are increasing and that there are tens of millions of outdoor cats, but it is very possible that the number of outdoor cats is falling.

This is a strong indicator that the number of outdoor cats breeding in these communities is being reduced significantly.

Even the authors of the scientific report used to justify the war on cats admit there is no scientific basis for estimating the number of outdoor cats in Australia.

Although the actual impacts of community and pet cats on wildlife are hotly debated, one fact is clear: the capacities of most shelter programs are simply insufficient to decrease the overall number of outdoor cats in a community.

A similar error is made when the authors use an average to describe the number of outdoor cats owned by each landowner.

Of course the errors are even more significant when one inflated figure is multiplied by another — as when Lepczyk et al. [6] multiply the average number of prey items returned by the average number of outdoor cats per owner.

But the authors go further, generating predation estimates based on pure speculation, specifically that «non-respondents have 150 % the number of outdoor cats as respondents.»

``... we found that a very common volunteered response among landowners that had no outdoor cats was that either their neighbors owned outdoor cats or that feral cats were present in the vicinity of their land... [suggesting] that at least some landowners under reported or chose not to report the number of outdoor cats they owned.»

In Australia, Linn noted «Even the authors of the scientific report used to justify the war on cats admit there is no scientific basis for estimating the number of outdoor cats in Australia.

Although the actual impacts of community cats compared to pet cats on wildlife are hotly debated, one issue that is not is that the capacities of most shelter programs are simply insufficient to decrease the overall number of outdoor cats in a community.

They've been criticized by bird groups, who fear that working with cat activists will only accelerate the spread of TNR and increase the number of outdoor cats.

Most jurisdictions in the United States have a large number of outdoor cats, too many for shelters to successfully place them if all the cats were captured, and it makes no sense to take them into a shelter only to kill them.

The number of outdoor cats in the U.S. has never been higher.

Not exact matches

That may be reason enough to make sure your cat stays in - doors but an increasing number of animal shelters are requiring that you keep your adopted cat indoors, not allowing him outdoors.

TNR stabilizes a neighborhood's outdoor cat population very quickly and, over time, reduces the number of cats.

They believe the number of unowned cats is on the rise, despite the fact that there are no credible calculations of unowned cats in the United States, and there's nothing to suggest that outdoor cats are increasing.

The Lucky Paws Foundation had already been caring for hundreds of outdoor cats around St. Thomas, and that number exploded with pet cats who were displaced from their homes by the hurricanes.

To reduce the constant breeding cycle and the number of feral and stray cats living outdoors or being euthanized in shelters, humane action must be taken.

Outdoor dogs and cats are exposed to a number of different parasites on a daily basis, either by direct ingestion or by eating grass, chewing on sticks and rocks, swimming or playing with toys outdoors.

According to Dauphine and Cooper, «The number of outdoor pet cats, strays, and feral cats in the U.S. alone now totals approximately 117 to 157 million,» [1] an estimate rooted in their earlier creative accounting.

Obviously, collisions with autos are a threat indoor cats don't have to worry about — that, or being attacked by outdoor animals, lapping up antifreeze, or getting any number of infectious diseases from roaming cats.

Feline infectious diseases: Cats who spend time outdoors are at risk for a number of infectious diseases.

The shelters are taking in an overwhelming number of cats, largely due to people neglecting to have their cats spayed or neutered — especially those cats allowed outdoors.

Trap - Neuter - Return humanely reduces the number of outdoor community cats by preventing new litters.

On any given day, the average number of cats held in the shelter was 76, well under 0.1 % of all the outdoor cats in the county.

In addition to posing a rabies risk, outdoor and feral cats that number at least 95 million animals in the United States, are responsible for killing an estimated 500 million birds annually in addition to scores of other small animals.

Since most FIV positive cats are used to going outdoors, we consider it is detrimental to their quality of life to prevent them from going outdoors if they want to, provided that it is in an area where the virus is already present in significant numbers of cats.

There is no cure, and FIV positive cats are vulnerable to a number of secondary infections due to a suppressed immune system, especially if they are allowed outdoors where they are exposed to more illness and injury.

Indeed, such a question will invariably overestimate the number of «outdoor cats» — which in turn overestimates predation rates.

In it, Dauphiné and Cooper use some remarkably creative accounting, beginning with an unsubstantiated estimate of unowned cats, to which they add an inflated number of owned cats that spend time outdoors.

Among the numerous issues that call into question their estimates are assumptions regarding the number of cats that actually hunt, the number of cats allowed outdoors, the number of cats that live in a particular area, and so forth.

Charlie Potter, host of Chicago radio station WGN's Great Outdoors program («dedicated to bringing to WGN listeners outdoor information in an honest and entertaining format») and president of the Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation (whose mission involves «actively creating solutions through programs of management, education, research and communications that strongly enhance the conservation of fish, game, wildlife and their habitats»), is blaming declining Northern bobwhite numbers on feral cats.

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.»

Since community (feral or free - roaming) cats are happiest living outdoors and are at great risk of being killed if they enter shelters, our community cat spay / neuter voucher program was created to keep them out of shelters, while gradually reducing their numbers.

Indeed, her survey of Maine residents who feed outdoor cats leads her to conclude that this population may be no more than 10 — 15 percent of the pet cat population — which, if one does a back - of - the - envelope calculation using survey data from the American Pet Products Association and census data for the number of households in Maine, would mean something like 18,700 — 28,000 unowned cats.

A large number of cats are allowed unsupervised access to the outdoors on a part or full - time basis.

Trap - Neuter - Return reduces the number of community cats living outdoors by placing socialized cats into adoption programs, and by stopping the breeding cycle of cats who live outside through spaying and neutering.

While this reactivity may satisfy callers and improve the lives of the individual cats who are sterilized, it tends to have little impact on outdoor cat numbers in the long term.

Visit the NYC Feral Cat Initiative of the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals website to read about how Trap - Neuter - Return (TNR) humanely reduces the number of community cats living outdoors, and how you can help by attending one of our free TNR certification workshops.

Dauphine and Cooper begin their adventure in creative accounting with Jessup's unattributed 100 million, and add to it the number of owned cats they describe as «free - ranging outdoor cats for at least some portion of the day.»

«That's a thing that we have been pushing a lot lately,» says Bays, adding that The HSUS is working hard to build tools that make it easier for those working in the field to implement effective TNR programs — ones that not only reduce shelter intakes but also reduce the number of cats outdoors — and to measure their success.

Even though large numbers of cats are euthanized in shelters, the numbers do not come close to reaching a tipping point to decrease outdoor cat populations.

If you need to schedule appointments to spay / neuter your outdoor cats please let us know the number of cats that require appointments and which clinic you prefer (if known).

Athens County has areas with large numbers of cats living outdoors.

Examples include laws that prohibit cats from being at - large (so - called leash laws), require licenses for all cats, ban the feeding of any animal outdoors or limit the number of pets a person can own (with «own» defined as feeding, harboring or similar language that would apply to a colony caretaker).

In his paper, «Estimated Number of Birds Killed by House Cats in Canada,» Peter Blancher used a variety of research to determine that somewhere between 40 to 70 % of Canadian house cats are allowed to free - roam outdoCats in Canada,» Peter Blancher used a variety of research to determine that somewhere between 40 to 70 % of Canadian house cats are allowed to free - roam outdocats are allowed to free - roam outdoors.