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feralcat with a Golden-crowned Kinglet by Isaac Grant. Pity the poor souls at Alley Cat Allies. So on 16 October, which Alley Cat Allies has turned into “National FeralCat Day,” local governments got an earful. After all, someone is taking care of all those cats, right? Example one?
The other day, Minneapolis, Minnesota passed a feralcat ordinance. So I put together a “carnival” (of sorts) of FeralCat Ordinances and Issues that samples current events across the US. From the Star Tribune : Feralcats win a round at Minneapolis City Hall. What would success look like?
Quantico Military Base is really behaving cruelly when it comes to the feralcats on its base. We do not support or promote feral animals on the base,” flatly stated Bruce Frizzell, head of the Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs office. Feralcats may be an animal problem, but there is a human solution.
Cory Williams, of the famed "Mean Kitty" YouTube videos (which are really funny), has a good how-to video about doing a trap, spay/neuter, and release of feralcats in your neighborhood. The video was done on behalf of the Stray Cat Alliance. Tags: feralcats.
Thanks to Alley Cat Allies , one of my favorite groups, for posting this web page with financial resources for people struggling to care for pets or feralcat colonies. Tags: spay/neutercats animal rescue feralcats. These guys are just awesome.
Caring for the homeless cat population in Los Angeles, FixNation , offers free spay and neuter services to caregivers of community cats. FixNation sterilizes more than 70 cats each day and will have successfully trapped, neutered and returned 80,000 cats by the summer of 2012.
When taking the issue to simplest common denominator, spaying/neutering is essentially exercising human dominance over non-human animals. But my stance is also categorized under Gray Matters because, in my perfect world, we wouldn't be spaying or neutering anybody. How contradictory is that?
They will spay/neuter, vaccinate, tip ears and microchip , and they do not test. Sure, it takes an hour to get there and I have no idea how I'm going to get 10 cats in my car or even trap 10 cats, but I'm still enjoying the honeymoon phase of the concept and reveling in some kind of victory I had nothing to do with.
From the feralcats of Project Treadstone to Charles' back surgery to problems with Violet's Vetsulin (insulin for dogs), we had more than our share of issues. As for Project Treadstone, after several false starts, trapping, spaying and neutering will resume next week. One at a time, each life as worthy as the next.
Project Treadstone If anyone in Palm Beach County wants to get involved in the Trap/Neuter/Return (TNR) of feralcats, now is the time, as the county's Spay Shuttle is back in business (but for a whopping $40/cat rather than the original $15), and Pahokee ($25/cat) is open as well.
Case in point: some of my family members have become active with feralcat colony organizations. It started with donation requests for spay and neuteringcats but then quickly transferred to a trap, neuter and release organization. I have mixed feelings about TNR. Are we going to put out food for coyotes?
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