Sentences with phrase «outdoor cat populations»

The goal of the policy is to gradually reduce outdoor cat populations while avoiding widespread euthanasia policies in animal shelters.

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.

This represents less than 4 % of the potential outdoor cat population.

AHS has partnered with the Animal Defense League of Arizona and other community partners to develop an expanded TNR program to help reduce outdoor cat populations in the Valley.

They've implemented TNR programs across the world to help change outdated methods of managing outdoor cat populations.

And they learned that the biologist not only had been a vocal advocate of controlling outdoor cat populations to protect birds and other wildlife but also had sparked controversy as a graduate student in Athens, Georgia, for trapping free - roaming cats and taking them to the local shelter.

TNR stabilizes outdoor cat populations at manageable levels, eliminates «annoying» mating behaviors like yowling and spraying, and provides for a healthier population of cats through vaccinations for rabies and distemper and through the provision of fresh food and water each day.

By using the UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program's shelter and outdoor cat population calculator, you can generate a chart that will help you find out — and, if necessary, improve.

TNR should be considered a humane means to an end, not a method of permanently maintaining outdoor cat populations.

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

The HSUS supports collaborative efforts, such as coalition - based initiatives, to humanely reduce outdoor cat populations while protecting threatened and endangered wildlife populations.

The NHS Cat Action Team (CAT) creates awareness about living harmoniously with feral cats and the benefits of Trap - Neuter - Return (TNR)-- an effective and humane way of managing feral outdoor cat populations — as well as facilitating TNR itself.

This approach is inhumane and ineffective, as it fails to permanently reduce outdoor cat populations because of the vacuum effect.

«To bring together scientists, technical experts, and others with an interest in the constellation of issues tied to the presence of free - roaming, abandoned, and outdoor cat populations in our world, and to take the measure of contemporary scholarship with the goal of forging a stronger union between knowledge, evidence, insight and policy.»

We can say the same thing about tallies of cats TNR'd, because we know that for a hundred years the prevailing policy for controlling outdoor cat populations was trap and kill.

And it's a real investment in the future — leading to healthier cats and happier community members and humanely stabilizing outdoor cat populations.

If you want a more detailed graphic that also accounts for the presence of outdoor pet cats in the community, you can use either the U.S. or Canada version of the «Outdoor cat population calculator».

In Hawaii, for example («an ideal environment for free - roaming cats and a global hotspot for threatened and endangered wildlife») HSUS is «meeting with local humane societies, state and federal wildlife officials, non-governmental organizations, and university staff to find solutions to humanely manage outdoor cat populations and ensure the protection of Hawaii's unique wildlife.»

TNR is the most humane and effective way to stabilize and eventually reduce outdoor cat populations.

While every day is feral cat day at Best Friends, we're excited about this day each year because it's an opportunity to educate the public about the importance of trap / neuter / return (TNR), the only humane option for stabilizing and reducing the outdoor cat population.

We need to work together, combining many different pieces of the puzzle, to demonstrate that TNR does work to reduce outdoor cat populations, not maintain them.

It is the only humane and effective approach to outdoor cat populations.

Community cat caregivers neither create nor maintain the outdoor cat population.

The opening workshop of the day, «Helping Cats in Your Community,» will demonstrate the steps involved with Trap - Neuter - Return (TNR), the only humane and effective approach to outdoor cat populations.

Trap - Neuter - Return (TNR) is the only humane and effective approach to outdoor cat populations.

TNR is the most humane way to stabilize and reduce the outdoor cat population.

The NHS Cat Action Team (CAT) creates awareness about living harmoniously with feral cats and the benefits of Trap - Neuter - Return (TNR)-- an effective and humane way of managing feral and outdoor cat populations — as well as facilitating TNR itself.

The scientifically proven way to control outdoor cat populations is TNR.

Studies across the U.S. have shown that TNR not only curtails nuisance behavior, but it also costs less, drastically reduces shelter euthanasia, and, over the long run, will reduce the outdoor cat population of a community.

It's an Alley Cat Allies initiative that the organization describes as «an online resource to educate about outdoor cats and Trap - Neuter - Return, the only humane and effective program to stabilize — and reduce — outdoor cat populations.»

Wisconsin Humane Society has a low - cost spay / neuter program for outdoor cats where you can bring the mother so that she no longer has any more kittens and can stop adding to the outdoor cat population.

Rounding up and killing cats does not decrease the outdoor cat population.

With the decline of dead cats picked up off the street, the outdoor cat population is either diminishing further, or it is possible that fewer surgically sterilized cats are roaming wide areas due to lack of mating interest.

Currently, only 2 % of free - roaming cats are spayed and neutered (compared to 85 % of pet cats) and thus the outdoor cat population reproduces on a regular basis.

In 2016, Operation Nip & Tuck was redesigned to fix even more animals by providing convenient, monthly spay and neuter services by appointment at local veterinary locations for the outdoor cat populations in Carbon and Stillwater Counties.

In their recently released book, The American Bird Conservancy Guide to Bird Conservation, ABC changes tack a bit — using what the authors call «conservative» estimates of the outdoor cat population and annual predation rates, for example, to arrive at their figure of «532 million birds killed annually by outdoor cats.»

While a drop in shelter intake doesn't directly indicate a decline in outdoor cat populations (see «Measuring Success,» below), it does indicate success in serving the needs of the community beyond the shelter walls.

Here are our standard Guidelines to help you get started: TNR (Trap - Neuter - Return) is the only humane and effective way to manage outdoor cat populations.

Until the day when the population has been reduced and all cats live in loving homes, The HSUS supports and promotes humane management of outdoor cat populations.