Signal Boost: Project Cat Needs Your Help
Project Cat, a TNR effort aimed at helping the feral cats at a small apartment complex in Arizona is having an emergency. The management company has decided to eliminate the cats, citing resident complaints that seeing the (neutered, managed) ferals around 'made people sad'.
You can help by contacting the management company and reminding them that a managed colony is a lot less sad than unfixed strays, which is what they'll have if they remove the managed cats, and that putting healthy but unadoptable cats to sleep is also pretty sad.
Trap-and-kill doesn't reduce unwanted cat problems, it makes them worse. New strays just move in to occupy the territory. The only thing that helps is Trap-Neuter-Return, which maintains a population of healthy, neutered, vaccinate animals, watched over by a human caretaker, and thereby maintains a population of animals that are unlikely to engage in nuisance behavior and live at a much lower population density than breeding populations.
From eilonwy, In fact, if you'd like to call MEB and give them a piece of your mind about how they are KILLING cats, it's 602-279-5553. That's no the office of this complex, that's higher up to the corporation that has made the decree. (This is MEB's website.)
You can also write to them in Phoenix:1215 East Missouri Avenue; Phoenix, AZ 85014
Or email them at info@mebmgmt.com
Spread the word.
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You can help by contacting the management company and reminding them that a managed colony is a lot less sad than unfixed strays, which is what they'll have if they remove the managed cats, and that putting healthy but unadoptable cats to sleep is also pretty sad.
Trap-and-kill doesn't reduce unwanted cat problems, it makes them worse. New strays just move in to occupy the territory. The only thing that helps is Trap-Neuter-Return, which maintains a population of healthy, neutered, vaccinate animals, watched over by a human caretaker, and thereby maintains a population of animals that are unlikely to engage in nuisance behavior and live at a much lower population density than breeding populations.
From eilonwy, In fact, if you'd like to call MEB and give them a piece of your mind about how they are KILLING cats, it's 602-279-5553. That's no the office of this complex, that's higher up to the corporation that has made the decree. (This is MEB's website.)
You can also write to them in Phoenix:1215 East Missouri Avenue; Phoenix, AZ 85014
Or email them at info@mebmgmt.com
Spread the word.
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