Sentences with phrase «roaming cat policies»

In fact, Akron's free - roaming cats policy was far more costly than TWS would have us believe, and far less popular than Winter suggests.

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However, such requirements should exempt free - roaming colony cats, whose caretakers are not really «owners» in the same sense, and for whom the policy objectives are different.

Revised policy endorses lethal methods of controlling free - roaming cat populations, despite the fact that trap / neuter / return is the only proven method to work.

Even with open - admission shelter policies that encourage the public to turn in cats at any time without restriction, few shelters take in more than 10 % of the community's free - roaming cats each year.

But cat fanciers dispute those studies and are pushing for a policy of trapping and neutering (or spaying) free - roaming cats, then returning them to the outdoors.

Working closely with three leading national animal welfare organizations, the ARL developed and implemented a new Community Cat Protection Policy to go into effect immediately that aims to humanely and significantly reduce the number of free - roaming cats through sterilization rather than euthanasia.

Webinar: How Your Animal Shelter Can Save Cats by Helping People Free to Roam: A Small City's New Policy that Saves Feline Lives and Tax Payer Money

The study is critical of the Trap - Neuter - Return (TNR) policy advocated by Alley Cat Allies and other defenders of free - roaming cats.

But Barrows undermines his own credibility when he endorses, for example, The Wildlife Society, the American Bird Conservancy, PETA, and National Audubon Society, arguing that «veterinarians should carefully review the well - considered and strong foundations upon which these organizations formulated their policies on free - roaming cats and TNR.»

Public policies and education programs aimed at reducing cat overpopulation should include provisions for neutering unowned free - roaming cats, and efforts should target the general public, not only pet owners, because not all households that feed unowned free - roaming cats own pets.

As I've pointed out previously, USFWS has been back and forth on this for some time now, acting (when it suits their purposes) as if they do have a policy regarding free - roaming cats, and then backpedaling when they're called on the carpet.

We're leading a movement to overcome local and national challenges caused by free - roaming cats, bringing about change by conveying the most current scientific information, promoting science - based policies, and working with diverse stakeholders such as animal shelters, veterinarians, wildlife rehabilitators, and conservation biologists.

Estimates of Free - roaming Cats In January, Steve Holmer, the ABC's Senior Policy Advisor, told the Los Angeles Times, «The latest estimates are that there are about... 160 million feral cats [nationwide].&raCats In January, Steve Holmer, the ABC's Senior Policy Advisor, told the Los Angeles Times, «The latest estimates are that there are about... 160 million feral cats [nationwide].&racats [nationwide].»

Even with open - admission shelter policies that encourage the public to turn in cats at any time without restriction, few shelters take in more than 10 % of the community's free - roaming cats each year [9].

Such an understanding would allow them to continue pushing for policies that would, despite their claims to the contrary, actually increase the number of free - roaming cats — but still have little or no significant consequences for the wildlife these organizations claim to protect.

Longcore's reply, not surprisingly, was a laundry list of «policies needed to control feral cats,» the majority of which — either directly or indirectly — simply lead to more killing: mandatory spay / neuter, pet limits, prohibitions on roaming, and prohibitions of «feral cat feeding unless on feeder's property, or with permission of property owner and nearby owners / residents.»

Cats will roam free and good old boys had better chain the dogs riding in the back of pickup trucks if sweeping changes proposed for Orange County animal control laws win commissioners» approval.Those are two of 34 changes suggested by a committee of animal lovers appointed by commissioners to review county animal policies.

The Utah Community Cat Act empowers towns and municipalities to implement humane and cost - effective policies to control free - roaming cat populatioCat Act empowers towns and municipalities to implement humane and cost - effective policies to control free - roaming cat populatiocat populations.

It's no surprise, given the American Bird Conservancy's contribution (president George Fenwick is among the paper's seven co-authors, and Steve Holmer, Bird Conservation Alliance director, is thanked in the acknowledgments for his «review and input during the writing of the manuscript») that the article provides no evidence whatsoever of such policies and practices reducing the risk of rabies posed by free - roaming cats.

Utah's Community Cat Act, adopted in 2011, is a significant piece of legislation that allows towns and municipalities to implement humane and effective policies to control free - roaming cat populatioCat Act, adopted in 2011, is a significant piece of legislation that allows towns and municipalities to implement humane and effective policies to control free - roaming cat populatiocat populations.

Reducing the Impact of Cats and Birds on Wildlife: Recommended Bylaws and Policies contains recommendations for municipalities to address the impacts of free - roaming and feral cats on birds and other small wildlCats and Birds on Wildlife: Recommended Bylaws and Policies contains recommendations for municipalities to address the impacts of free - roaming and feral cats on birds and other small wildlcats on birds and other small wildlife.