Sentences with phrase «of catching a feral cat»

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There are many local organizations that will loan or rent a trap to you for safely and humanely catching feral cats or any cat that is in need of help that won't come to you.

Adoption has not been an option for feral cats because shelters do not offer frightened, hissing ferals for adoption to the public, and that's the Catch - 22 — a fact that begged the question of why bring them into a shelter in the first place.

But advocates of catch and kill programs continue to justify this cruel practice by insisting that feral cats represent a threat to public health and that they do spread disease.

Our goal as a community is to catch and socialize kittens under 12 weeks old, while doing TNR (trapping, neutering, and returning) on the older cats so they can no longer breed, with the hope of gradually, but significantly reducing the feral cat population.

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.

Feral cats can still be dropped off any time they are caught during normal business hours and kept overnight if necessary (refer to Feral Cat Policy under the Feral Cats section of the main website or to the quick facts summary at the end of this pacats can still be dropped off any time they are caught during normal business hours and kept overnight if necessary (refer to Feral Cat Policy under the Feral Cats section of the main website or to the quick facts summary at the end of this paCats section of the main website or to the quick facts summary at the end of this page).

False Statement: «Most Cases of Toxoplasmosis Stem from Undercooked Food, Not Cats — Catch and kill advocates sometimes argue for killing feral cats because they can transmit toxoplasmosis, a parasitic disease that spreads via Toxoplasma oocysts shed in the feces of an infected animal.&raCats — Catch and kill advocates sometimes argue for killing feral cats because they can transmit toxoplasmosis, a parasitic disease that spreads via Toxoplasma oocysts shed in the feces of an infected animal.&racats because they can transmit toxoplasmosis, a parasitic disease that spreads via Toxoplasma oocysts shed in the feces of an infected animal.»

But we must concentrate on the real threat - the feral cats in the arid areas — not the cats in the suburbs of Sydney, Newcastle, Melbourne and Brisbane catching those plentiful species who are of least conservation concern just because the birds are natives, so perhaps TNR in the suburbs would be enough and we can leave the release of dingoes and devils for sparsely populated areas where the feral cat predation is a clear and present danger?

As I've said several times now, it doesn't get you anywhere to say that TNR doesn't work, because your preferred solution of catching and killing feral cats is not politically viable in the cities and suburbs where the great majority of feral cats actually live.

Recently, four feral cats that we helped relocate to the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center have caught the attention of journalists.

And yet, this is exactly what's going on in Hernando County, Florida, where county commissioners recently voted 4 - to - 1 «to retain the 23 - year policy of loaning out cat traps to catch feral felines.»

It also conducts a catch and release program, which sterilizes, vaccinates and returns feral cats back into their established colonies to prevent further reproduction and the spread of disease.

With combined efforts from the NYC Feral Cat Initiative staff, the Animal Care and Control of NYC, and caring volunteers, the first ten cats caught in the Port Authority's roundup have been saved from being euthanized and have found foster homes.

The catch and kill method of population control (trap a cat, bring it to a shelter, ask that the cat be euthanized), has not reduced the number of feral cats.

Humane traps make the job of catching and transporting feral cats possible.

Our primary veterinarian has agreed to alter feral cats as they are caught, at a reduced rate to expand our program and allow more cats to be trapped (instead of trapping only the night before the designated monthly or weekly appointments) We need donations to fund this important program for both the vetting expenses and additional traps.

Although feral kittens can adjust to life as house pets if caught young enough, adult feral cats do not adjust to living indoors as pets, so it is misleading to include these cats in any estimate of the numbers of pets dying in shelters.

There was torrential rain almost non-stop Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings and anyone who has any experience at all of trapping / rescuing feral cats will know that it is virtually impossible to catch cats when it's pouring with rain - so, of course, the atrocious weather meant that no cat was seen in that 48 hour period.

The alternative, the inhumane catch and kill, has not worked to reduce numbers of feral cats.

«If the federal government is allowed to overrule local support for Trap - Neuter - Return, most of the cats in Cape May will be caught and killed,» warned Becky Robinson, president of Alley Cat Allies, the national advocates for feral and stray cats.

Proponents of «catch and kill» sheltering use «practical» arguments in favor of ending life all the time, such as «Killing dogs and cats is necessary because there are too many animals and not enough homes» or «Feral cats suffer on the streets and therefore killing is the compassionate option.»

Ecologist Dr John Read has dissected the gut of almost a thousand feral cats that he's caught over the past 25 years in the South Australian arid lands.

Here in Buenos Aires, there are massive feral populations with a lot of sick cats, unfortunately... I think catch and release is the best solution.

We will take feral cats as walk - in appointment only due to the unpredictability of being able to catch the wild cats.

Catch - Neuter - Return (CNR), also known as Trap - Test - Vaccinate - Alter - Release (TTVAR) is a method of humanely trapping unaltered feral cats, spaying or neutering them, and releasing them back to the same location where they were collected.

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how would this apply to us that take care of feral cat colonies.i feed and give shelter but there is no way of catching them to bring indoorsand they would rip things to shreds if brought indoors

«Traps to catch feral cats have been removed from two Santa Ana school campuses, where public health officials have been trying to stop the spread of typhus, a city official said Friday.

The feral mama cat who was populating the neighbourhood was caught, spayed, and returned — only to hang around on a daily basis and become so bold that she now goes inside the home of the couple who had been feeding the strays!