Alley Cat Allies has responded to a appeal for abetment by the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals and added bounded organizations to advice save the lives of beastly bodies active on the area of J.F.K. Airport. The alignment has accomplished out to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and has requested a adjournment on all accoutrement until a accommodating band-aid for the beastly cat colonies can be discussed. A contempo civic analysis conducted by Harris Group for Alley Cat Allies reveals that an cutting majority of Americans -- 81% -- believes that abrogation a devious cat alfresco to abide out his activity is added accommodating than accepting the cat bent and killed.
Bethesda, MD -- Alley Cat Allies has responded to a appeal for abetment by the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals and added bounded organizations to advice save the lives of beastly bodies active on the area of J.F.K. Airport. The alignment has accomplished out to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and has requested a adjournment on all accoutrement until a accommodating band-aid for the beastly cat colonies can be discussed.
As the civic advocates for beastly cats, Alley Cat Allies has auspiciously intervened on account of threatened beastly cat colonies above the country. Last year, Alley Cat Allies adjourned with assembly from the Army Navy Club in Arlington, VA if affairs to allurement and annihilate a antecedents of beastly bodies active on the acreage were announced. The bodies were cautiously relocated to a limited across of the acreage and are vaccinated, spayed and neutered. Alley Cat Allies hopes a agnate alteration plan can be implemented for the beastly bodies active at the 5,000 acre airport.
Birds are an affair at every airport about the world It is antic to accept that artlessly removing these bodies will abate the bird citizenry at J.F.K. Trapping beastly bodies and bringing them to abominable control--where they will be killed--is not a accommodating band-aid and we apperceive that Americans are not in abutment of this atrocious practice Americans charge to accept that the killing of beastly cats, like those at J.F.K. airport, happens every day about this nation. Contacting abominable ascendancy agencies to abolish alfresco bodies is handing these animals an actual afterlife sentence U.S. Public Opinion on Humane Treatment of Stray Cats The Port Authority claims the bodies affectation a risk, because their aliment attracts birds that could fly into and accident aircraft engines. Becky Robinson, President and co-founder of Alley Cat Allies says removing the bodies is not a solution. "Birds are an affair at every airport about the world," says Robinson. "It is antic to accept that artlessly removing these bodies will abate the bird citizenry at J.F.K." Robinson credibility out that the airport is anchored on the beach next to the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge.
Alley Cat Allies has appealed to the Port Authority to accede Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) as a solution. A appropriately managed beastly cat antecedents would assure that aliment is not accessible to the birds or added animals. TNR is the accustomed non-lethal adjustment of managing alfresco cat populations. With TNR, devious and beastly bodies already active outdoors are humanely trapped, vaccinated, and castrate or alter by veterinarians. Kittens and amusing bodies are adopted into acceptable homes. Healthy beastly bodies are alternate to their alfresco habitats area an organized affairs of agriculture and apartment the bodies is agitated out by volunteers.
"Trapping beastly bodies and bringing them to abominable control--where they will be killed--is not a accommodating band-aid and we apperceive that Americans are not in abutment of this atrocious practice," said Becky Robinson. A contempo civic analysis conducted by Harris Group for Alley Cat Allies reveals that an cutting majority of Americans -- 81% -- believes that abrogation a devious cat alfresco to abide out his activity is added accommodating than accepting the cat bent and killed. These after-effects acknowledge a cogent alterity amid the public's accommodating belief and the operating action of a lot of U.S. abominable pounds and shelters.
"Americans charge to accept that the killing of beastly cats, like those at J.F.K. airport, happens every day about this nation. Contacting abominable ascendancy agencies to abolish alfresco bodies is handing these animals an actual afterlife sentence," said Robinson. Feral bodies are not a blackmail to humans. They are not socialized to bodies and cannot be adopted, so a lot of shelters annihilate them. Not alone is this convenance cruel, it is aswell a decay of money and assets and is not able in abbreviation the absolute amount of bodies who abide outdoors.
Respondents to the Harris analysis were aswell asked to accede the a lot of accommodating aftereffect if they were to accept the devious bodies would be hit and dead by a car in two years; 72 percent said it was still added accommodating to let the cat abide out his accustomed life.
The Alley Cat Allies analysis aswell begin that added than two in 5 Americans accept put out aliment or baptize for a devious cat, with added than one in 5 respondents advertisement to accept done so in the accomplished year.
For a abounding archetype of after-effects from the Harris survey, "U.S. Public Opinion on Humane Treatment of Stray Cats" appointment alleycat.org/PublicOpinionPoll.
About Alley Cat Allies
The mission of Alley Cat Allies is to assure the lives and advance the wellbeing of our nation's citizenry of devious and beastly cats, and to end the killing of bodies in abominable ascendancy pounds and shelters - the amount one accurate could cause of cat afterlife in the United States. Since 1990, Alley Cat Allies and its 150,000 supporters and volunteers accept pursued this mission civic through educational and beat programs. Alley Cat Allies aswell advocates for the use of Trap-Neuter-Return programs to ascendancy reproduction of cats. Visit Alley Cat Allies on the Internet at www.alleycat.org.
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