Talk about an impossible dream, to run a feral cat clinic and shelter, funded entirely on donations, in order to treat feral or non-owned cats for free. This would include spay/neuter, treating illness and injury, providing interim housing during treatment, socialization or whatever is needed to get these cats off the streets and into a home, or at least a safe situation.
The majority of feral cats are in fact friendly, most are scared and become quite leery of people, and who can blame them? These are cats with no homes, abandoned, left to fend for themselves, and by whom? People.
Having no owners, there is no one to pay for the care they desperately need. Care that is life altering, improving the quality of life for these cats, resulting in permanent homes or hospice.
Sadly, the plight of these cats has been ignored by our local animal control institutions. Even with the advent of the Best Friends No Kill Utah initiative, which is dependent on reducing the numbers of cats taken to and killed in shelters, none of Utah's animal shelters have fully embraced the program. Of course, it seems they have not even fully embraced their role in humane care of the animals they are charged with caring for.
Even with the "rebranding" of feral or non-owned cats, as "community cats", there has been little progress.
So here's the dream, to somehow find the financing to open a privately run cat shelter, capable of providing veterinary care, housing, and taking in all overflow or "unadoptable" or death-row cats from shelters state wide in order to provide humane care and get the help that is so desperately needed to these cats.
Impossible? I guess time will tell.
The majority of feral cats are in fact friendly, most are scared and become quite leery of people, and who can blame them? These are cats with no homes, abandoned, left to fend for themselves, and by whom? People.
Having no owners, there is no one to pay for the care they desperately need. Care that is life altering, improving the quality of life for these cats, resulting in permanent homes or hospice.
Sadly, the plight of these cats has been ignored by our local animal control institutions. Even with the advent of the Best Friends No Kill Utah initiative, which is dependent on reducing the numbers of cats taken to and killed in shelters, none of Utah's animal shelters have fully embraced the program. Of course, it seems they have not even fully embraced their role in humane care of the animals they are charged with caring for.
Even with the "rebranding" of feral or non-owned cats, as "community cats", there has been little progress.
So here's the dream, to somehow find the financing to open a privately run cat shelter, capable of providing veterinary care, housing, and taking in all overflow or "unadoptable" or death-row cats from shelters state wide in order to provide humane care and get the help that is so desperately needed to these cats.
Impossible? I guess time will tell.
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