We have received a surplus of calls lately regarding free roaming cats. Under Ohio law, there is no one agency responsible for handling free-roaming cats. As a result, cats are often left to roam the streets and breed. These cats multiple quickly and can exhibit bad behaviors associated with mating like yowling, fighting and spraying. Some of theses cats are owned and some are not. But when they breed, they make more unwanted cats. These outside cats can lead to complaint calls to police, city officials and non-profit animal welfare groups like ourselves. The most effective and humane answer to this problem is Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR). Trap-Neuter-Return is a proven and humane solution to the free-roaming cat population. Cats are humanely trapped, spayed/neutered and returned to the area where they were found. TNR has many advantages: -It immediately stabilizes the size of the colony by preventing new litters. -The nuisance behaviors associated with breeding - like yowling, fighting and spraying - are reduced or eliminated. -The cats provide natural rodent control. TNR reduces the number of cats and kittens entering already overcrowded animal shelters. This results in lower euthanasia rates and the increased adoption of cats already in shelters. Humane Ohio and Alley Cat Allies are great resources and have great information on TNR and feral car colonies.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 00:09:37 +0000
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