The No Kill Advocacy Centre (NKAC) has provided a new document on the benefits and facts on community cats and Return to Field (RTF). This will be beneficial to rescuers & carers lobbying with all levels of government.
The LRC team strongly suggests this document is supplemented with the known Aussie desexing programs with stray cats & rescuers.
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- NKAC Protecting Community Cats Document
- Quotes of interest
- NKAC Model agreement with local governments
- LRC summary of Aussie desexing programs involving community cats & rescuers
- Don’t forget to sign & share our petition!
NKAC Protecting Community Cats Document
The original document may be download from the NKAC webpage: https://nokilladvocacycenter.org/the-toolkit/protecting-community-cats
LRC have stored a copy JIC:
Quotes of interest
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“Where the alternative to return to field (RTF) is death, RTF is, without question, always the preferred outcome. moreover, RTF is a “quick fix”: it is less expensive than impound and killing and allows shelters to dramatically and immediately increase live release rates without the need for additional staff, resources, or infrastructure.“
“…the traditional sheltering dogma that cats should live exclusively indoors or risk great harm has been proven false, with outdoor cats living roughly the same lifespan as indoor pet cats. In other words, the risk of death is lower and the chance of adoption higher for cats on the streets than cats in the shelter. In a study of over 100,000 alley cats, less than one percent of those cats were suffering from debilitating conditions. As such, RTF meets the two goals of a shelter better than impoundment in a shelter does: reclaim by families or adoption into a new home.”
For animal shelters (& pounds) “The impact of not having to care for more than 3,000 additional cats annually allows staff and management to focus on other areas of the operation and pursue other welfare related strategies.”
“sterilizing rather than killing community cats is simply less expensive, with exponential savings in terms of reducing births“
“Used to living outdoors, community cats are stressed in a shelter and a stressed cat is
more likely to get sick. thanks to fewer cat intakes, URI in a California shelter declined by 99%, reducing killing and length of stay thus resulting in a healthier cat population, more revenue (from adoptions), and lower costs (treatment, holding, and tragically killing).”
NKAC Model agreement with local governments
In the NKAC document, is included a model of legal agreement that may be established with local authorities.
In LRC’s opinion this model will be useful for establishing agreements with private businesses on which a colony may be managed.
LRC summary of Aussie desexing programs involving community cats & rescuers
Don’t forget to sign & share our petition!
Help our community cats, who were once abandoned, have the chance for being rehomed!
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