In addition to HSWC's TNR program
returning unadoptable cats to their outdoor homes, they've also lowered their intake numbers through a great education initiative to decrease owner surrender.
Not exact matches
The study claims
cats kill birds and mammals with abandon, and that trap - neuter -
return — the nationally popular and humane program to stabilize and reduce the population of unsocialized (
unadoptable) feral
cats — isn't working.
Holodenschi has also formed strong ties with the local Humane Society, including setting up a TNR program to move
unadoptable community
cats out of the shelter by providing spay or neuter services and
returning them to their outdoor homes.
We also manage the Barn / Outdoor
Cat Program and the Community
Cat Program where otherwise
unadoptable but healthy
cats are
returned to where they came after being altered, vaccinated and ear - tipped - these programs saves the lives of hundreds of
cats every year.
However, when an
unadoptable cat can not be
returned to its original environment, then relocation is a possibility.
If deemed behaviorally
unadoptable and suitably healthy, the
cats have the alteration surgery, ear tip removal for identification in the field after
return, rabies and common
cat disease vaccinations, microchip, and a recovery period at the shelter during the state mandated 72 h hold.
Local
cat advocates discussed a program with the shelter manager, based on a 2008 Jacksonville, Florida, USA plan (Mitchell, 2008), to alter all healthy feral
cats impounded at the shelter, and then
return the
cats to their place of capture, rather than euthanize them as healthy but
unadoptable.
They discussed as well needed changes in the operation of the shelter such as ways to increase adoptions, a trap neuter
return program for feral
cats, better evaluations for animals so that they would not be mistakenly labeled
unadoptable.