Humanely Controlling the Cat Population
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Humanely Controlling the Cat Population
From personal experience as a volunteer, within the last fours years, or so, fifty cats have been sterilized and their offspring adopted. As responsible pet owners and volunteers, the feral cat population, will slowly reduce, the spread of diseases reduced, and animal shelters will not be over crowded with unwanted feral cats. Hunting and poisoning cats is immoral and causes the cat to die slowly in agonizing pain. Educating friends and neighbors of humanely sterilizing the cats is morally beneficial for the cats.
There are approximately over 80 million feral cats, including inside and outside domestic cats in the United States. To control the rapid growth of feral cats, animal shelters and pounds euthanize cat’s everyday that are injured, sick, or are untamable as pets. Euthanizing cats is too expensive and new cats enter the colony when others have been removed.
Most often, caregivers come across feral cats by accident and follow their instinct to feed and care for these homeless animals. Before you know it, there are more adult, feral cats coming to eat, and now you have a colony of feral cats. Feral cats are unsocialized, born outside, and have never known human contact. Domestic house cats can also become feral when lost or abandoned.
Feral cats are just as healthy as domestic cats when spayed or neutered and can live longer. There are many organizations such as; Alley Cat Allies, Best Friends, Animal Rescue Connections, and Pets911 are just a few to name, that are willing to have your cat spayed or neutered either for a very small fee or if you are low income the cat can be sterilized free. Volunteers and members of non-profit organizations set live traps with tuna, salmon, or mackerel too humanely, trapped, neutered, and returned the cats to their colonies. When a feral cat has been live trapped, it is taken to a volunteer veterinary, and given an examination before surgery. To help identify the sterilized...
From personal experience as a volunteer, within the last fours years, or so, fifty cats have been sterilized and their offspring adopted. As responsible pet owners and volunteers, the feral cat population, will slowly reduce, the spread of diseases reduced, and animal shelters will not be over crowded with unwanted feral cats. Hunting and poisoning cats is immoral and causes the cat to die slowly in agonizing pain. Educating friends and neighbors of humanely sterilizing the cats is morally beneficial for the cats.
There are approximately over 80 million feral cats, including inside and outside domestic cats in the United States. To control the rapid growth of feral cats, animal shelters and pounds euthanize cat’s everyday that are injured, sick, or are untamable as pets. Euthanizing cats is too expensive and new cats enter the colony when others have been removed.
Most often, caregivers come across feral cats by accident and follow their instinct to feed and care for these homeless animals. Before you know it, there are more adult, feral cats coming to eat, and now you have a colony of feral cats. Feral cats are unsocialized, born outside, and have never known human contact. Domestic house cats can also become feral when lost or abandoned.
Feral cats are just as healthy as domestic cats when spayed or neutered and can live longer. There are many organizations such as; Alley Cat Allies, Best Friends, Animal Rescue Connections, and Pets911 are just a few to name, that are willing to have your cat spayed or neutered either for a very small fee or if you are low income the cat can be sterilized free. Volunteers and members of non-profit organizations set live traps with tuna, salmon, or mackerel too humanely, trapped, neutered, and returned the cats to their colonies. When a feral cat has been live trapped, it is taken to a volunteer veterinary, and given an examination before surgery. To help identify the sterilized...