A Michael Broad Blog
I have a sneaking suspicion that the Hillsborough County Veterinary Medical Society (HCVMS) are planting stores on the Internet which undermine trap-neuter-vaccinate-release (TNVR) programs in Florida. I have two such stories on this website. The stories were picked up on the Internet. Both stories are critical of TNR. I realised that when I wrote …
Update May 29, 2017 petition to save the cats here. The following is taking place in Mauldin, South Carolina where a colony of feral cats, many of whom have undergone TNR, is in danger of being trapped and “disposed of.” Unfortunately, Mauldin doesn’t have a TNR program currently in place. I’m cheating a bit …
It used to be a crime in Fort Pierce, Florida, USA to sterilise (spay or neuter) feral cats. I find this information fascinating and very surprising. You would have thought that every city or council or state in the USA would at least allow people to spay or neuter feral cats because by doing …
Although they won’t admit it, it seems likely to me that the U.S. Navy at Guantánamo Bay is quietly trapping and killing feral cats to remove them from the base because of a directive from the Chief of Naval Operations of 10th January 2002 which makes it clear that trap-neuter-release (TNR) programs are not …
The following post was made on the Foster Paws Rescue (FPR) Facebook wall back on March 5, and I was also contacted via Facebook. Please read. This is serious, as it appears someone is practicing TNR on kittens too young for the procedure. If not for the quick thinking of a Good Samaritan in the …
Compassion is a much admired quality in people. Compassion is soft, gentle and tender but it can take strength to exercise it. Even the word itself sounds soft and gentle. Compassion is a quality that people should aspire to. Compassion is on the decency spectrum of human qualities. People who have compassion towards the …
How do people engaged in trap-neuter-return distinguish between feral cats and scruffy outside cats? A story from Fox 46, an online newspaper, concerning a domestic cat got me thinking about how the good people who are engaged in trap-neuter-release programs distinguish with certainty between feral cats and domestic cats who are wandering around outside. …
Killing feral cats in order to protect wildlife is a short term fix but in the long term there will be failure. Conversely, trap-neuter-release (TNR) is a long term solution which if carried out consistently and with commitment produces success. The underlying difference is short termism versus long-term solutions. In many cases the long …
