(05-23-2012, 06:19 AM)The CatDog Wrote: Does your community of shelters that institute a no kill policy? One that will not put down animals just because a lack of space in the shelter. It's always a nice to see that more shelters are going towards this policy. Before it was such a problem of people dropping their pets off and the older pets become the next in line to be put down.
True we do have a problem with the vast amount of strays but there are other means to control the population than to just kill everything. We have a program that is similar to a catch and release for the stray cat problem here. They catch as many stray cats as they can during the year and perform spays or neutering on them before releasing them back out in the wild.
I have heard of this type of catch and release idea for the stray cat population, and I think that it is a great idea. Stray cats are feral and, if they are older than a few months, they typically don't adjust well to house life. That is especially true if their new owners decide to keep them indoors (which is safer).
That is why I like the stray cat release program. If stray cats are collected, neutered, and given certain vaccinations, it they will stop multiplying and can be kept under control. Obviously though, to seriously make an effect on a certain area's feral cat population, a lot of funding and effort is needed.
