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Cat Management Case Study

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Confinement as a means of management is available for cats when they are owned. Patronek (1998) suggested the need to identify and overcome the attitudes that inhibit the confinement of cats indoors, to stop them from being able to hunt prey. Heidenberger (1997) surveyed 550 cat owners in Germany. Slightly more than half reported behavioural problems in confining their cats. These included feeding problems, scratching furniture, anxiety, aggression, urination and defecation in the house. Toukhsati et al (2012) surveyed residents in Australia. The study found that cat confinement was because of concerns about the protection of cats and wildlife. They stated that a broad agreement exists with owners and non‐owners for the confinement of cats. …show more content…

Lethal control occurs at scales ranging from targeting individual cats that have been deemed a nuisance, and professionals are contracted to eliminate cats as pests. Eradication programs have mainly been used on islands and have used a variety of methods aimed at completely removing the cat population. This allows for sensitive species to recover in often fragile and unique ecosystems. Nogales et al (2004) noted that cats have been removed from 48 islands, of which most were small. The methods used for removal were hunting, poisoning, trapping and the use of disease, often used on …show more content…

Research on the use of toxicants involves efficiency, delivery systems and by-kill (Marks et al. 2006). Moseby & Hill (2011) undertook a large scale baiting trial with 1080, they found a major decline in cat activity after the first baiting event however. 1080 is not species-specific, Denny (2001) calculated that, at least 61 native vertebrate species were known to have consumed 1080 poison bait, and 24 of these natives were known to have been killed by 1080 poison. Eason et al. (2010) explored the use of Para aminopropiophenone, a poison used as an alternative to others, it’s said to provide gradual loss of consciousness and death without the pain and suffering that other compounds can

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Toxicology Article Cases Cousins Herman and Paul Petrillo were career criminals from Philadelphia who decided to form a matrimonial agency during the 1930s. The purpose of their agency would be to help widowed women remarry and get life insurance policies for their new husbands. However, since the agency functioned as a conduit for collecting money from these policies, the Petrillo cousins and their gang had a vested interest in making sure their clients’ husbands came to tragic ends, often with the wives as willing accomplices. Paul considered himself to be a practitioner of witchcraft and intended to use black magic to cause the husbands’ deaths. When that didn’t work, they decided to use arsenic instead.

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The City of Oshawa Should Fund a Trap-Neuter-Return Program for Stray Cats. The city of Oshawa has long had a feline overpopulation issue and has been cause for complaint from both local residents and local shelters. The only solution that is put forth time and again by the City Council and Oshawa Animal Services is the euthanizing of these cats to control population. This is an expensive and flawed solution that is not effective against population control long term.

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However, whenever the cat in fact wants to go outside, they have no interest whatsoever in staying inside. What is in their interests is whatever they happen to desire at that moment of time (Varner 94). Therefore, the cat's interest is to not get any diseases, and desires cannot be the only thing that contributes to interest. The psycho-biological theory of individual welfare avoids this implication because it supports the intuition that the cat has some interest in staying inside, since doing so would serve their biologically based needs by preventing exposure to diseases (Varner

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Tylenol tablets with cyanide in them killed seven people in 1982 (Lerner & Learner, 2007). This was a tragic part of history. In downtown Chicago victims bought cyanide injected tylenol bottles at five stores and 2 more bottles were found at another store (Lerner & Learner,

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As recent market trends show (8), customers are ready and willing to pay more for these demands. Pittman introduced this idea effectively, and I believe he argues well that reform is the best approach. However, I think he could have bolstered his argument by showing why it was in everyone’s best interest and offering the idea of certification programs (9) as an option as well. Overall, I fully agree that we need laws and enforcement preventing abuse of animals that have no control over the situation they were born into.

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In this way, no-kill shelters keep the animals happy and feeling cared for, which is important to an animal’s health. According to Ed Boks of Maricopa County, Arizona, in a nation where 43,400 animals are euthanized every year in Arizona alone, a pet’s life seems worthless, but no-kill shelters do not adopt that mentality. No-kill shelters nurture their animals in a world where no one else seems committed. Because no-kill shelters are not cost ineffective and negative, Ohio should institute no-kill shelters throughout the entire state. No-kill shelters profit from adoptions and save communities’ money by not participating in euthanasia procedures.

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She continues to ask the reader detailed questions such as “who has made the decision?” to provoke the readers’ minds into analyzing the horrendous outcomes such as the “pitiful heaps of many feathers” from pesticide use to present the idea of unjust authority in an ecosystem and suggest the dictatorial behavior of those who have granted themselves the decision making power. Carson starts by continuing to demonize the use of pesticides using imagery such as the “wave of death” to metaphorically link the expansion of the poisons on multiple species of animals to the ripples caused by dropping a pebble into a still pond. The correlation between this image and the use of pesticides shows the reader how disturbing the use of one pesticide can be on an environment and the universal effect it will have. Carson juxtaposes “the lifeless remains” of the birds with the leaves eaten by beetles after the method of poison control saved the crop, showing that society has come to value crops infused with pesticides over the lives of birds who fell to the “unselective bludgeon” of poison control.

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Trapping is also good for your local animal populations and for the economy. It’s also a safe and efficient way to get rid of nuisance animals. Trapping helps protect game animals while equalizing the predator population. Coyotes and foxes are responsible for some of the decline of the pheasant population in some areas.

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Incontinence can be defined as the unintentional loss of urine and feces. Youth incontinence can be caused by a variety of things. Family history seems to play a role in this condition. People who have a parent with incontinence are much more likely to develop it. Incontinence can also be caused by certain medical conditions, such as diabetes or an infection.

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Countless lives locked away in cages and forgotten about have overwhelmed our society, it has left blood stains on our history as a species and if history has taught us anything, it’s that we have a choice to change our ways of adjusting to situations. A war which was fought in means of ending such criminal acts, yet we as human beings do little to nothing to end the terrible crimes of animal deaths in shelters. Between these problems lies a terrible truth, nearly every year, almost eight million cats and dogs have been placed in shelters around the world. Out of these very large numbers, half will be euthanized. That equals to one animal being put down every 8 seconds.

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Attention Getter: Imagine living on the streets, constantly looking for your next meal and never knowing the feeling of companionship. This is the life of stray animals. Credibility Statement: No one really knows how many stray animals roam the streets, but it is predicted that there are more than 70 million stray cats in the United States alone. Central Idea (Proposition): By adopting pets from the American Humane Society or other rescue shelters, we can reduce the amount of stray animals on the streets.

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In order to do so, the cats must be dealt with humanely. There are over 100 million feral cats in the world, 60 million living in the U.S. These cats aren’t strays-- but they aren’t lost either. These cats were born away from human civilization, out into the wilderness. They can transmit diseases, and are unhealthier and have shorter lifespans than domesticated cats.

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On the other hand, cat owners who choose to declaw their cats, have made a choice that is not necessary for the wellbeing of their cat, but to maybe protect their furniture and possibly themselves from a cat’s scratch. Although this may seem like minor or just a simple procedure, before an owner

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Background The situation that was presented to us occurred in September of 1982, where seven people in the Chicago area were killed when they ingested Tylenol, a painkiller produced by Johnson and Johnson. The Tylenol that ended up killing the seven had been laced with cyanide, but the extent of the damage and whether it was internal or external was not known for several weeks. However, upon investigating it was found to have been an external sabotage.

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