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Feral Cats in American Cities

10,000 Birds

… The ordinance would allow Minneapolis residents to establish cat “colonies” where abandoned and wild cats can be fed but also vaccinated, neutered and identified in an effort to humanely cut their population and control disease. Feeding bans don’t stop cats from “multiplying”; neutering does.

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No-Kill Conference Already Sold Out

Critter News

Tags: spay and neuter feral cats animal welfare us.

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On Project Treadstone and Welfare, OED-Style

Animal Person

Project Treadstone If anyone in Palm Beach County wants to get involved in the Trap/Neuter/Return (TNR) of feral cats, 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. worldes welfare and my goddesse. 1377 LANGL.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Lawmakers, animal control officers and animal welfare organizations need to work together and delve into the origins of shelter subgroups—such as stray, feral or surrendered pets—to address the issues that bring them to the shelter.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Change will take place only when governments work with local and international animal welfare groups and concerned individuals to address the root of the problem through education and humane methods of population control, such as spaying and neutering.

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Event: Save a Stray for the Holidays

4 The Love Of Animals

Each location will reduce adoption fees, including microchip and spay/neuter surgery fees, for the special program. The Found Animals Foundation ( www.foundanimals.org ) is a privately funded Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization dedicated to animal welfare issues and led by business and medical professionals.

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Humane Society Endorses Obama

Critter News

As an Illinois state senator, he backed at least a dozen animal protection laws, including those to strengthen the penalties for animal cruelty, to help animal shelters, to promote spaying and neutering, and to ban the slaughter of horses for human consumption. In the U.S.

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