Resort Unlikely To Pass Laws On Feral Cat Colonies
























7 comments on “Resort Unlikely To Pass Laws On Feral Cat Colonies

  1. Outlaw TNR. TNR enables abandonment. TNR presents a risk to public health, a danger to protected wildlife, an infringement on property rights, and is inhumane for cats. Go ahead. Keep feeding cats in beach areas. Maybe you folks will be next to experience a hookworm outbreak like Miami Beach.

  2. Susan, please get YOUR facts straight- although I use the word ‘facts’ lightly here because you do not know what you are talking about.
    Does a rabies or FVRCP vaccine protect the public against toxoplasmosis? How about cat scratch disease? How about hookworm? How about toxocara infection? How about murine typhus (if on the west coast)? How about ringworm or tapeworm? How about pasteurella multocida? There is NO scientific support that TNR colonies protect or improve public health. Further, we both know that not every cat necessarily gets trapped and thus not every cat gets vaccinated and that shots are rarely updated due to the difficulty of retrapping. Cat colonies spread diseases to both humans and wildlife.

  3. How come it is ok to have roaming colonies of cats but not wild packs of dogs. Dogs deserve the same rights as these TNR cats. In case you can’t tell this is a joke. Neither should be roaming the streets because they both pose a public health nuisance. Cats carry many diseases and are not being taken care of properly.

  4. TNR is the only humane solution to the overpopulation of cats. TNR alters each cat and provides them with rabies and distemper vaccinatons. It takes away their opportunity to breed. With each feral colony that is tnr’ed and has a caretaker, we can see when someone dumps a new cat and act quickly to get the new cat fixed and vaccinated. TNR protects the public as we vaccinated each and every cat thus preventing them from contacting rabies. TNR’ed cats have no diseases as they have been properly vaccinated through our efforts. Please get your facts straight.

  5. Domestic cats have no place outdoors. If people insist on keeping every cat alive, then please, take them home with you and enclose them on your private property. Where are my property rights????

  6. TNR does not enable abandonment. The poor cats are abandoned by irresponsible owners who could care less about tnr or their cats. TNR is not inhumane,but your idea to exterminate stray cats,and that they have no rights, is very inhumane.
    Furthermore, re-trapping is easy, and the animals are closely monitored by their caretaker, who has a network of resources for dealing with anything suspicious. There are gracious local vets involved that volunteer their time for that sort of thing.Many of the cats were someone’s pet,and have been abandoned. I would like to see legislation protecting the cats, the food and equipment, and the colony caretakers.
    Maybe the answer is to have the cat colonies protected and managed on city/county/state property.


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