Sentences with phrase «outdoor colonies»

This program places community cats (or outdoor cats) in a managed outdoor colony where they have a caretaker who provides the cats with shelter, food, and veterinary care.

She describes the challenges of outdoor colony care through harsh Chicago winters, the time and effort that goes into completing a successful and safe relocation, neighbor relations in a range of communities, the vacuum effect that results when cats are removed from an area, and many other topics that arise when working with community cats.

It also opposed trap - neuter - release (TNR) programs that maintain feral cats in outdoor colonies.

Interestingly, none of the 133 rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) housed in the same building became sick during the outbreak, and neither did any of the Old World monkeys from surrounding outdoor colonies of rhesus and cynomolgus macaques (Macaca fascicularis).

Around the country, thousands, if not millions, of community cat caretakers — studies show approximately 10 to 14 percent of households — feed outdoor colonies, some supplying winter shelters packed with straw and spending their weekends trapping, neutering and returning (TNR) feral and semi-feral community cats.

Advocating to overturn long standing principles of public health, purely in the interest of maintaining outdoor colonies of feral and stray cats, is untenable and unacceptable.

White cats do not fare well in outdoor colonies as they are highly visible to predators and are susceptible to sunburn.

Providing TNR services reduces the number of kittens born into the harsh conditions of outdoor colonies where they are at risk of food scarcity, disease and predators.

The issue of cat overpopulation and outdoor colony management is complex, but those dedicated to the cause are working tirelessly to change misconceptions and provide educational tools that help both cats and the community.

Instead, they are spayed or neutered, rabies vaccinated, and left eartipped by trained caretakers before being returned to their managed outdoor colonies.

Most callers are caregivers of outdoor colonies and are feeding cats.

Once in a while, we come across a kitten or cat that is either born in an outdoor colony or through back luck and unfortunate experiences is just not socialized and therefore hard to adopt out.

Conservationists say that, far from diminishing the population of unowned cats, trap and release programs may be making it worse, by encouraging people to abandon their pets to outdoor colonies that volunteers often keep lovingly fed.

Then community cats are returned to their outdoor colonies to live and thrive.

Tree House would like to help feral colony caretakers by providing food for their outdoor colonies.

Any outdoor colonies that remain should be enclosed, he said.

The Washington Humane Society and many other animal welfare organizations support the use of increasingly popular trap - neuter - return programs, in which unowned cats are caught, vaccinated, spayed and, if no home can be found for them, returned to the outdoor colony from which they came.

Monitoring the cats at street level means that fewer kittens are born outdoors, fewer turn up in shelters competing for forever homes, and the health of cats that are returned to their outdoor colonies after sterilization and vaccination is significantly improved.

In turn, fewer kittens end up on the streets or in shelters, foster home spaces open up, and the Good Samaritans providing out - of - pocket for their outdoor colonies catch a break once those colonies are contained.

In turn, fewer kittens end up on the streets or in shelters, foster home spaces open up, and less money is spent by the Good Samaritans providing for their outdoor colonies.

She lives in Chicago with her husband, Doug, her indoor cat, Sarina, and her outdoor colony cats: Allie, Eloise, and Duke