Evaluating the Effects of Managed Free-Roaming Cat Populations on Prey Through Stable Isotope Analysis: A Pilot Study from British Columbia, Canada [PDF]
AnimalsFree-roaming domestic cats (Felis catus) present a major management challenge for animal welfare and biodiversity conservation. Trap-neuter-return (TNR) programs, which include sterilization and return of cats, are increasingly adopted to manage cat ...
Valentina Martinoia +5 more
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Global Ecology and ConservationFree-roaming dogs (Canis familiaris) are invasive species that pose serious threats to wildlife, and this necessitates active management. In Taiwan, resistance to euthanizing shelter dogs has led to overcrowded shelters, which prompted a shift to trap ...
Ying-Yi Ho +3 more
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Better trap-neuter-return for free-roaming cats: Using models and monitoring to improve population management. [PDF]
J Feline Med Surg, 2015 Overview: Trap–neuter–return (TNR) for cat management is transitioning from an enterprise driven mainly by an urge to ‘help’ into an enterprise that draws useful guidance and precedent from the fields of population biology and wildlife management. This transition is in its infancy, however.
Boone JD.
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“State of the Mewnion”: Practices of Feral Cat Care and Advocacy Organizations in the United States
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021 Over the last several decades, feral cats have moved from the fringes to the mainstream in animal welfare and sheltering. Although many best practice guidelines have been published by national non-profits and veterinary bodies, little is known about how ...
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Corrigendum: Decrease in Population and Increase in Welfare of Community Cats in a Twenty-Three Year Trap-Neuter-Return Program in Key Largo, FL: The ORCAT Program [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2019 Rachael E. Kreisler +2 more
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Study of the effect on shelter cat intakes and euthanasia from a shelter neuter return project of 10,080 cats from March 2010 to June 2014 [PDF]
PeerJ, 2014 Cat impoundments were increasing at the municipal San Jose animal shelter in 2009, despite long-term successful low cost sterilization programs and attempts to lower the euthanasia rate of treatable-rehabilitatable impounds beginning in 2008.
Karen L. Johnson, Jon Cicirelli
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2023 The number of pet cats in South Korea has sharply increased since 2010. Problems have arisen with feral or stray cats, creating conflict among residents, to such an extent that the government provides some sites for people to offer feeding stations for ...
Sun-A. Kim +4 more
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021 Although human interactions with cats are often even typically analyzed in the context of domesticity, with a focus on what sorts of interactions might make both people and cats “happy at home,” a large number of cats in the world live, for one reason or
Geoffrey Wandesforde-Smith +7 more
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Population Dynamics of Free-Roaming Cats in Florida's Lee County
Undergraduate Journal of Mathematical Modeling: One + Two, 2010 We investigate whether the Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) program can be effectively used to control the population of free-roaming cats in Florida's Lee County.
Benjamin Taylor
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Cat Colony Caretakers' Perceptions of Support and Opposition to TNR
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2019 Trap, neuter and return (TNR) is a non-lethal approach to urban cat management used effectively internationally to decrease urban cat numbers, but deemed illegal in Australia.
Jacquie Rand +3 more
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