Sentences with phrase «of altering cats»

Instead, ARL was able to educate people about the importance of altering cats and kittens.

This may be attributable to the high proportion of altered cats in the county (93 %) relative to the comparable 1993 figure and the 2005 national average of 86 %.

Under all plausible scenarios, ranging from 20 % to 80 % of the altered cats being feral, the costs to the shelters would have likely exceeded $ 2 million over the 12 - year life of the program, and at the higher proportion of feral cats the costs would have likely exceeded $ 6 million.

Not exact matches

Sorry, Randy is my alter ego... damn... the cat's out of the bag... Hopefully everyone will forget this thread.

«With TVHR, a male cat's life span, sexual drive and social status aren't altered with a vasectomy, so he'll fend off competing males who try to intrude into his area even though he can't actually produce offspring,» said J. Michael Reed, one of the authors and professor of biology in the Tufts» School of Arts and Sciences.

Until humans no longer seek to alter their state of mind through intoxication, the cat - and - mouse game over miaow - miaow and its successors will continue.

Apart from the terrifying cat above, House includes many mind - altering images, like the disembodied heads of Japanese school girls floating around a haunted house that eats them, one at a time.

In this process an inactive or altered form of the distemper virus is injected into the cat's body.

Humanely trapping cats and bringing them in to DAWS or other local shelters to be altered is a great way to reduce the number of kittens born during kitten season.

If you can not afford to alter the cat, bring the cat to the shelter don't let the cat multiply, the shelter has a much higher chance of getting the one cat a home then 10 cats after it breeds.

The last of the fourteen abandoned cats were altered last week (June 2014).

Managed colonies - groups of feral cats cared for by volunteers - create fewer problems and stay closer to their food source after being altered.

(5) Money forfeited under subsection (4) shall be used by the animal control shelter or animal protection shelter to finance alterations, for public education regarding the value of having dogs, cats, and ferrets altered, or to otherwise ensure compliance with this section.

Byrne became a one - woman rescue... feeding cats, getting them veterinary care, paying for altering (all out of her own pocket) and then using social media to find them homes.

(4) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (7), a contract entered into pursuant to subsection (1) shall require the adopting person to leave with the animal control shelter or animal protection shelter, or a designee of the animal control shelter or animal protection shelter, a good faith deposit of at least $ 25.00 that indicates the person's intention to have the adopted dog, cat, or ferret altered within the time provided pursuant to subsection (2).

(8) A contract entered into pursuant to subsection (1) shall include a statement that if the terms of the contract are breached because a person adopting a dog, cat, or ferret fails to have the animal altered as required in the contract, then the person agrees to pay liquidated damages of the greater of $ 100.00 or actual reasonable costs incurred by the animal control shelter or animal protection shelter to enforce the contract.

Until feral cat caretakers can live without fear... until we quit killing animals just because they're not altered... until we quit ripping dogs out of their homes for having a blocky heads... until we end the killing IN OUR ENTIRE METRO we have not reached our goal.

Some may think that it is wrong to give your cat a behavior altering substance but catnip is safe, non-addictive and produces only short lived behavioral responses in the 50 % of cats that are genetically predisposed to respond to it.

Lung histopathology, radiography, high - resolution computed tomography, and bronchia - alveolar lavage cytology are altered by Toxocara cati infection in cats and is independent of development of adult intestinal parasites.

Altered cats are judged by the same standards as those of unaltered cats.

No You can and should mandate altering of unowned cats and dogs in the custody of the county / state, you can't mandate it for priviatly owned animals.

Try to make the areas your cat has selected less attractive by altering the texture of the surface.

If crystals are detected in the urine by your veterinarian, a specific diet will be prescribed based on the type of crystals in order to alter the pH of the cat's urine.

To continuously improve the welfare of animals in the community through programs that promote the adoption of homeless animals into permanent, loving homes; humane education; spay / neutering; and the trapping, altering, and releasing of feral cats.

This is done while the cat is under anesthesia, it is painless for the cat, and it does not significantly alter the appearance or beauty of the cat.

People will be less likely to re-trap altered / ear - tipped cats unnecessarily as they already know that the cat won't produce any kittens, and ear tipping allows people to focus on trapping cats that are still in need of spay / neuter.

The diet of a dog or cat receiving potassium bromide should not be altered without speaking first with your veterinarian.

Altering is highly cost effective as BA citizens spend thousands of tax dollars each year for housing care and euthanasia of homeless, yet adoptable pets (mostly cats).

But during weeks when the cats» routine was altered or normal caretaker was changed, the number of sickness behaviors more than tripled among both groups of cats.

There is little or no bleeding, it is relatively painless to the cat, and the eartip does not significantly alter the appearance or beauty of the cat.

Male dogs and cats should be altered by 6 to 7 months of age, if not sooner.

Also, through a new program called FreeFix, all residents of Prince George's County's TNI neighborhoods can have their cats or dogs altered for FREE (a $ 350 value), regardless of income.

And whatever the sex of the cat that you choose you will want to ensure that they have been altered, for a variety of very good reasons, one of which is that your cat doesn't contribute to the growing mass of unwanted cats.

Cats and kittens with URI will be held until the end of the clinic to avoid any contamination and will be altered unless the Medical Director considers that the surgery might pose a risk to the cat.

Preventing such input defies simplistic solutions, because although 93 % of cat owners were willing to have their own pets surgically sterilized, it is unrealistic to expect the 7 % of the population that feeds an average of 3 stray cats to assume the hundreds of dollars necessary to surgically alter these cats.

Over four years, 10,080 healthy feral cats (of 11,423 impounded in the municipal shelter during the same time period) were altered and returned to the sites where they were caught.

People who agreed to be questioned were asked whether or not they owned dogs or cats, fed stray dogs or cats, whether or not the animals had been altered, if they had reproduced, if cats had been declawed, how they obtained their pets, whether or not cats were allowed outside, purebred status, city of residence, and residence type.

This clinic, in partnership with Animal Rescue Veterinary Services, will alter and give vaccines to cats that are owned by low - income families of Manchester.

Conversely, the cost of not altering the cats is to add 3.5 kittens per year (Nutter, Levine & Stoskopf, 2004; Pedersen, 1991) for each stray female, which at the cost to a shelter of approximately $ 250 per cat would cost a shelter almost $ 900 in husbandry expenses for those 3.5 kittens; were they not sheltered, the kittens would be expected to have 75 % mortality (Table 1).

In addition, while in 1993 16 % of owned cats had a litter prior to altering, in the current study this figure was less than one - half of 1 %.

Once all the cats in your colony have been altered, then you can settle into the last step of colony management, which is «maintenance».

We also manage the Barn / Outdoor Cat Program and the Community Cat Program where otherwise unadoptable but healthy cats are returned to where they came after being altered, vaccinated and ear - tipped - these programs saves the lives of hundreds of cats every year.

Any adult cat that has been trapped or removed from a colony of cats and is declared to be un-owned or free - roaming will be altered and ear - tipped.

My rx say it is 800 / 160 mg of Bactrim - used for my bladder infection - can i use this for my cat if i alter the dose?

If you think about it evolutionarily, the parasite (over millions of years) figured out where to go in the brain to alter the behavior of the host to put it someplace where it would be eaten by a cat.

This number does not include the additional hundreds of dogs and cats who are altered and then adopted from the shelter each year.

The revolutionary program, administered by a small staff from the Mobile Spay / Neuter Clinics, alters feral cats on a trap / neuter / return (TNR) basis, and has been «a great success,» according to Aimee Christian, Senior Director of ASPCA Mobile Spay / Neuter Clinics.

Some change has occurred in the virus in your cat that altered the type of cells it prefers to live in.

Through our community spay / neuter voucher program, several hundreds of dogs & cats were altered this past year at reduced prices by our partnered veterinary clinic.

We offer altering of feral cats for a $ 10 application fee and $ 10 per cat.