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Classification of the Trap-Neuter-Return Surgery Images of Stray Animals Using Yolo-Based Deep Learning Integrated with a Majority Voting System

Applied Sciences, 2021
Trap-neuter-return (TNR) has become an effective solution to reduce the prevalence of stray animals. Due to the non-culling policy for stray cats and dogs since 2017, there is a great demand for the sterilization of cats and dogs in Taiwan.
Yi-Cheng Huang, Ting-Hsueh Chuang, Yeong-Lin Lai   +2 more
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Effectiveness of the trap-neuter-return method for free-roaming dog management in an urban protected area: Wildlife cannot wait

Global Ecology and Conservation
Free-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, Hsueh-Wen Chang, Gau-Ming Chang, Shih-Ching Yen   +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.
europepmc   +4 more sources

A renewed call for conservation leadership 10 years further in the feral cat Trap‐Neuter‐Return debate and new opportunities for constructive dialogue

Conservation Science and Practice, 2022
It has been 10 years since a seminal paper in the journal Conservation Biology called for stronger leadership from the conservation community in countering the growing inappropriate use of Trap‐Neuter‐Return (TNR) as a method to control feral cat, Felis ...
Adolphe O. Debrot, Martin N. M. Ruijter, Wempy Endarwin, Pim vanHooft, Kai Wulf, Adrian J. Delnevo   +5 more
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The Nine Lives of Trap-Neuter-Return in the Canary Islands.

Social Studies of Science
Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) is widely promoted as a humane technique for managing free-roaming cats. Yet its legitimacy remains fiercely disputed. Drawing on four months of participant observation and two years of follow-up fieldwork in Tenerife (Canary ...
F. Pons-Raga, Pablo Alonso González
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Trap–Neuter–Return and Return-to-Field Programs for Managing Community Cats at Florida Animal Shelters

Journal of Shelter Medicine and Community Animal Health
Introduction: The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which Florida shelters utilize community cat programs for traditional trap–neuter–return (TNR), in which the original intent was to return the cat to its neighborhood following spay ...
Cassidy A. Schiefer, Keegan Spera, P. C. Crawford, Julie K. Levy   +3 more
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Evaluation of buprenorphine as optimisation of postoperative analgesia in feral cats undergoing ovariohysterectomy under field conditions. [PDF]

J Small Anim Pract
Objectives The objective of this prospective, randomised, blinded, observational clinical study was to investigate the effect of subcutaneously administered buprenorphine on postoperative pain in female feral cats undergoing ovariohysterectomy as part of a trap‐neuter‐return programme.
Heitzmann V, Diggelmann A, Goldinger E, Schiele A.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Integrated Return-To-Field and Targeted Trap-Neuter-Vaccinate-Return Programs Result in Reductions of Feline Intake and Euthanasia at Six Municipal Animal Shelters

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2019
For decades, animal shelters in the U.S. have sought to reduce the number of cats that are impounded and euthanized. Since the 1990s, low-cost sterilization campaigns aimed at owned cats have achieved varying levels of success in meeting these objectives.
Daniel D. Spehar, Peter J. Wolf
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Evaluating the Effects of Managed Free-Roaming Cat Populations on Prey Through Stable Isotope Analysis: A Pilot Study from British Columbia, Canada [PDF]

Animals
Free-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, Renee Ferguson, Peter J. Wolf, Mario Carić, Mario Novak, Shelly Roche   +5 more
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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 ...
Sabrina Aeluro, Jennifer M. Buchanan, John D. Boone, Peter M. Rabinowitz   +3 more
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