(07-01-2013, 04:28 AM)TheBrit Wrote: The Cat and Dog shelters out here advertise a no-kill policy, but lets be honest, they also know that they would lose a lot of donations if the contributors thought they put animals down after a short time. Hopefully it is a policy that they stick to.
We also have a cat neutering programme worked on the same basis. Volunteers, community managers and the local vets work together. Adult cats are spayed and released back. If kittens are young enough and partly tame the shelters will sometimes take them on to re-home. Once spayed they generally become a normal house cat.
I'm hopeful too! Neutering is another thing that community leaders could look into. The proliferation of stray cats and dogs in some countries is appalling, just a simple surgical procedure and a whole host of problems could be simply avoided. My family used to donate money to the local vets to neuter stray cats and dogs but we seemed to be the only ones doing it at that time.
I totally agree about the house cats.
