Feral Cats Feeding Ban

[violaine]

an older florida law resource [and searchable database] may provide something wording-wise for ferals in your state:

http://www.animallaw.info/articles/a...eenvtll441.htm


http://www.homeatlastrescue.org/html...ats/feral.html

some suggestions-

if one vet is for the ban, find others who help people who rehabilitate/support TNR.

see if you can talk to the chief animal control officer- the individual may not be able to support you in the issue per se, but on/off the record may have valuable information.

arrange a meeting with the commissioner you think might be interested in listening/bending ears of other commissioners.

write a letter to the editor.

you have your rights as citzens [like the law article mentions] - use the media to your advantage. you can build a facebook page and it could draw attention to a local media station [this happened with some work i did in the state of indiana].

thank you, and good luck.

[DapperButch]

Originally Posted by violaine

an older florida law resource [and searchable database] may provide something wording-wise for ferals in your state:

http://www.animallaw.info/articles/a...eenvtll441.htm


http://www.homeatlastrescue.org/html...ats/feral.html

some suggestions-

if one vet is for the ban, find others who help people who rehabilitate/support TNR.

see if you can talk to the chief animal control officer- the individual may not be able to support you in the issue per se, but on/off the record may have valuable information.

arrange a meeting with the commissioner you think might be interested in listening/bending ears of other commissioners.

write a letter to the editor.

you have your rights as citzens [like the law article mentions] - use the media to your advantage. you can build a facebook page and it could draw attention to a local media station [this happened with some work i did in the state of indiana].

thank you, and good luck.

Hi, belle.

I am actually not a PA resident (I live in a neighboring state), but I thought that I would post this here for the PA folks to see.

Thank you for the information!

[Diva]

I guess You're gonna have to come see me in jail......currently, I'm feeding 5 "neighborhood kittehs"......and while I can't really afford it, my heart breaks to see them so thin......and I won't have it.

So arrest me already.

[cuddlyfemme]

I don't have any feral cats where I live now but when I lived in the DC area there were lots of them that I fed. I got a few to the point that when I'd come out with food they'd come near me. If I saw a feral cat where I live, I'd feed them also. If I'd be put in jail, so be it

[Andrea]

Throw us in jail too. We have seven feral cats that we befriended by feeding in order to trap for spay and neutering.

At least 'our' cats are no longer procreating like the people in the corner house who have not had any of their cats spayed or neutered and are constantly producing kittens.

I will be sending emails to those listed.

Andrea

[Andrew, Jr.]

In my neighborhood, we all we participating in feeding, and loving on the feral cats living in the natural habitat. It was a total of about 10 cats. We even had a vet giving the cats shots, vaccines, and all the normal care. If one was sick, she would take it in to be watched over, and rehabbed back to healthed. It was just 1 person in the neighborhood who called in Animal Control to take away the feral cats one afternoon. They set up traps. Nobody had a clue because most were at work, or not at home to see what was going on. No matter what letters were written or what the vet said, all the feral cats were put down. Needless to say, this 1 neighbor will be shoveling her own snow/ice, and has really alienated herself from everyone else in the neighborhood.

We all figured out who it was who did this. She is a major pain in the ass. She is anti-pet, animal with the exception of horses. Sad to say she is an Asst. Principal in the city school system. Those poor kids. If she does that to cats...
makes one think twice.

Andrew

[The_Lady_Snow]

We had this issue at my apartment in Ohio, the cat folks were called because our front doors were gross and being sprayed allll the time it was gross and the smell was disgusting.

We reported our neighbor forhaving a PYREX glass bowl full of cat chow, this is after repeatedly asking her to stop and everyone telling her about the smells.

Cat problem solved minus neighbors pissed off attitude who now is reporting all of the anti feed the cats neighbors over dumb shit.

Here in Fl we have the woman behind us who keeps a gaggle of cats fed

[Glenn]

Yeah..it's always one old crab. I have my own,plus I feed the homeless ones. I have a food pantry goin on here. My father and mother told me if I helped them I would have good luck in my life, and it proved to be true. Also that letter did'nt mention about how a pack of rodents can become much more unhealthy than a packof cats. I daresay, none come more naturally equipped than the cat for keeping the rodent, roach, etc. population down. I'm also affiliated with a great organization here called Calumet Snap, who comes here and takes the ones they can trap, for low-cost spaying and neutering, and drops them back off!