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Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Calling all cat people

If you don't mind letting the black ones cross your path, there's a group holding a confab tonight on what to do about stray and feral cats in your neck of the woods. Described as a "teach-in," this one's going to be at the Potrland Central Library, starting at 6:00. They say they'll have refreshments as well as videos on trapping and neutering these furry creatures, and returning them to the outdoors. Meow!

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Thanks for the notice. If anyone happened to miss the videos, you can download clips for free at the Alley Cat Allies website: www.alleycat.org under "Resource Center". I especially would like to draw Ted Wheeler's attention to this. He can see that this is not only a compassionate, but a common sense approach to cat control, that is being employed successfully by mainline agencies and organizations in other jurisdictions across the nation. There really is a need for our mainline organizations to have such a program; this was driven home to me after I testified before the commissioners asking that Nathan Winograd be brought in to audit MCAS (He will be at the law school November 4). As I was leaving the meeting, a Multnomah County mental health nurse approached me saying she needed help to get wildish cats one of her clients was feeding trapped and neutered and that none of the mainline agencies was able to help her. I know some interpret our request to have Winograd perform an audit as biased. But he is, in fact, probably the only expert, who can both assess current conditions and make recommendations that will move us further in the direction of the 2000 task force recommendations.




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