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10,000 Birds Launches Alley Rat Allies

10,000 Birds

After careful consideration of all of the enlightened arguments that have been made by those in favor of Trap-Neuter-Return for feral cats in recent blog posts , we here at 10,000 Birds have been completely convinced by their well-thought-out, logical, and airtight conclusions. Then share our fantastic new organization with your friends!

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Fix Nation

4 The Love Of Animals

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. For more information, visit [link].

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Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer

10,000 Birds

The traditional, supposedly humane answer to the glut of feral cats has been institution of “TNR” programs – trap, neuter, return. There is evidence that toxoplasma leads, in humans, to an elevated risk of mental illness and depression.

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The Parable of the Goat Mites

10,000 Birds

And so, most had been neutered, adopted out to soft-hearted landowners as odd pets, conversation pieces. No wait, they were, but they had experienced so much genetic drift and selective pressure that they now constituted a unique breed in their own right. Also, they were infested by a species of ear mite unknown to science.

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Mexican Activists Staged Protest Early this Month

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MEXICO CITY – Animal rights activists staged a protest against the sale of pets in Mexico City, urging residents to adopt dogs and other animals instead of buying them. Late on this story. I copied the full article from the Latin American Herald Tribune.

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You’re Not Helping

10,000 Birds

He isn’t arguing against cats kept in the home, and he is right in my mind to blast the SPCA for doing trap neuter release in New Zealand (something I wasn’t aware anyone was stupid enough to think was a good idea here).

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Mexican Border Town Offers Tax Exemption for Euthanizing Dogs

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Clearly, there's no spay/neuter program in this place. But there are animal rights activists in Mexico that will hopefully take notice and try to establish some kind of long-term and humane solution. There's a stray dog problem in San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico. The solution? Sarcasm there of course. From Latino Fox News.