Not exact matches
If only one cat from a colony
comes into your
shelter, sterilizing and returning that cat isn't enough to make an impact on the
population.
«Euthanizing all community feral cats does not reduce the cat
population and instead just creates a vacuum effect in which more cats
come into the colony and take the place of those felines that are gone,» said Aiken County Animal
Shelter (ACAS) Manager Bobby Arthurs.
The
population of dogs
coming into the
sheltering population in Richmond, VA, may be different than elsewhere, but at least at the Richmond SPCA, with a specific look and type, staff were quite good at breed identification — correctly identifying 96 % of the dogs in the study as having at least 25 % of the breeds noted above.
That doesn't mean they should
come into your
shelter, particularly at times when warm weather is driving increased
populations and disease risk.
When an infected dog from the community
comes into the
shelter, CDV is efficiently spread to other dogs in the
population.