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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.

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As well, irresponsible owners may abandon cats in areas where outdoor populations already exist.

Our mission is to humanely reduce the future population of cats living on the streets, while supporting the need now for cats to live safely outdoors in our neighborhoods.

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.

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.

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Being an unneutered cat, Toulouse had constant outdoor access that resulted in growing population of short - legged cats around the area.

Trap, Neuter, Return (TNR) is the only method that works long - term in controlling outdoor «community» cat populations.

Since August, hundreds of outdoor cats in the city have been neutered, vaccinated and ear - tipped before being returned to their neighborhoods, which FAAS co-director Kelli Eaves says is a cost - effective and humane way to control the feral cat population.

In recent years, concerns have been raised about what impact outdoor cats might have on wildlife populations.

Slowly but surely, however, there is a movement towards not only accepting the feral cat colonies that call our neighborhoods home, but towards caring for these outdoor cats, cats who provide a service by driving down the rodent population for the homes and businesses in communities all across the country.

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.

Feral and outdoor cats are simply devastating populations of birds and other wildlife,» said Clare Nielsen, Director of Communications for American Bird Conservancy, one of the leading bird conservation organizations in the U.S.

Much as Anne Fleming did with her survey of Rhode Island caretakers, Lisnik found that the population of outdoor cats living in her home state of Maine is far lower than some would suggest.

Or, how prohibiting TNR and the feeding of outdoor cats would, as ABC claims in its October 2011 letter to big - city mayors — to which Antoniotti refers in her story — «stop the epidemic spread of feral cats that threaten national bird populations as well as scores of other wildlife.»

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.»

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 results in many cats without permanent / conventional homes living in outdoor populations, quickly producing ongoing generations of cats.

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

The reality is that there are millions of unowned cats living outdoors in North America, in addition to the many owned pet cats who are allowed to roam outdoors (often unaltered, which allows them to mate with community cats and add to the population).

Guelph (September 20, 2016)-- Canada's bird and cat populations are in trouble, and a coalition of Guelph groups working with Nature Canada's Keep Cats Safe & Save Bird Lives campaign are calling on the community to help keep both safe by keeping cats from roaming outdoors unsuperviCats Safe & Save Bird Lives campaign are calling on the community to help keep both safe by keeping cats from roaming outdoors unsupervicats from roaming outdoors unsupervised.

My brother and sister - in - law keep working barn cats, who must spend most of their time outdoors in order to do their job of managing the mouse population in the barn.