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post #31 of 35
5/7/09 at 6:36am
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Originally Posted by Cinder View Post

I mean, for cripe's sake.... you can get cats spayed & neutered for NOTHING around here. How do you educate that kind of stupid and lazy?
I wish I knew the answer to that question. If I did, the problem would be solved.
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post #32 of 35
5/7/09 at 8:49pm
I do think most shelters could go (almost) no-kill with dogs. Pit bulls are a problem in most cities---too many people breeding them irresponsibly and encouraging them to be aggressive. So in those areas it would be harder. And of course strict temperment requirements would be a must, you can't be adopting out aggressive dogs to unsuspecting families. But I do think that any shelter could dramatically reduce their euth rate on adoptable dogs with a bit of work.

Feral cats should be TNR'd, not killed. That would reduce the kill rate at any shelter. In most cases ferals should be released where they were trapped. Farm homes should be enlisted for tame cats with litterbox issues and for ferals who were trapped in areas where they can't be released.

But.....cats are a real problem. People who wouldn't dream of letting their dog have puppies will let their cats reproduce uncontrolled. Reasonably responsible people who don't realize their kitten can get pregnant at 4 months of age. People who think cats are like dogs and can't get pregnant when they're not actively in heat. Cats are professional reproducers. Better than rabbits, really. Even with free spay/neuter programs, there will still be many accidental kittens. I don't really know what could be done about that.
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post #33 of 35
5/7/09 at 11:33pm
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Originally Posted by Willowy View Post
Feral cats should be TNR'd, not killed. That would reduce the kill rate at any shelter. In most cases ferals should be released where they were trapped. Farm homes should be enlisted for tame cats with litterbox issues and for ferals who were trapped in areas where they can't be released.
Your area must be better than mine, we can't always put ferals back where they were trapped from, and we have had an advert on our website for over a year for farm homes, and not one enquiry, even speaking to friends who have farms hasn't found us a single home yet.
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post #34 of 35
5/8/09 at 10:38am
We can't release ferals where they were found, as something like 95% of them come from within the city & it's illegal (and unsafe) to release them there again. I've had 2 farms in 4 years take feral colonies. But yeah - we have had 4 people come in wanting farm cats in the past week....we have 4 cats fixed for farms - all at least semi-feral, one pretty feral - nobody wants them.
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post #35 of 35
5/10/09 at 5:18pm
Well, I can't say if this area is any better about that....probably not, as it's hard just to find farms that aren't actively killing their farm cats because there are too many of them. Just stating what would be necessary to reduce cat euthanasias.

As for not releasing cats in the city.....well, if it's illegal you can't help that, but the cats were living there anyway, so it can't be "too dangerous" for them. They've survived this long and shouldn't be relocated.

But, yeah, like I said, it would be very hard to reduce cat euthanasias in shelters. Irresponsible cat ownership is far to deeply ingrained in U.S. attitudes.
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