Stray Cats Essays

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. The statistics show OAS has euthanized 2,151 kittens and cats between 2010-2012

buying one elsewhere. Central Idea: Adopting an animal from the shelter has many benefits for not only you but also for animals. INTRODUCTION I. (Attention) Approximately 8 million animals enter shelters every year. And, roughly 2.6 million dogs and cats are killed in U.S. shelters annually. ("Statistics", n.d.) II. (Reveal Topic) Just hearing those statistics is alarming to me, this is why I feel everyone should consider adopting not shopping for pets. III. (Relevancy) My audience gaining knowledge

have gotten better recently? Do you wonder why one of the stray cats in your neighborhood is missing? Did one of your neighbors adopt that cat, did the cat get hit by a truck, or did the cat not get enough food and slowly starve. Neither one of those is the answer but, even then those things would be more merciful then to where they’re going. That stray cat is going to the lab to be experimented on, dissected, and repeat but, with a different cat. Animal activists took note and did not agree with such

neutered their animals, there would be a very significant decrease in the population of stray animals running around and therefore fewer animals in shelters. In addition, the number of animals being euthanized each year would also decrease in numbers. Spaying and neutering is recommended by many surgical center owners such as Dr. Cathrine Darr, because it is much more humane than seeing unwanted dogs and cats die of starvation, get euthanized

For my First Year Experience service project I went and volunteered at Catman2. Catman2 is a no kill cat shelter that helps cats that were strays and or abandoned on the streets. The shelter is a small two story house with about five rooms on the first floor, each with different kinds of cats. Caleb does have two sheds in the front also filled with cats. The sheds are filled with expensive priced cats as well as kittens. There is a disability room for those who have been hospitalized inside the shelter

not needed for killing, but the chance of a kill increased with hunger. cats are often provided with extra food and have access to reliable human food waste, and can avoid limited availability of prey (Sims et al. 2008). Cats can reach numbers in some habitats, such as urban environments, well in above of what could ever be achieved naturally (Baker et al. 2010). Woods et al. (2003), postulated that the approximate 9 million cats in Great Britain show a twenty fold increase in what could naturally be

In Hawaii, feral cats are considered nuisances. Often, they wander into yards and areas they are unwanted, such as parks or yards. They hunt our natural wildlife, especially rare species of native Hawaiian birds. Despite the harm they cause, feral cats are in danger themselves. Putting down these animals is inhumane, yet for the wildlife’s safety and the feral cats’ own, it is imperative for their populations to decline. In order to do so, the cats must be dealt with humanely. There are over 100

Last summer my little brother found a stray cat in the backyard one day and he wanted to keep it. When began feeding it and keeping it a bowl of water on the front porch for the cat. We then took the cat to the vet and got him fixed and made sure everything was okay. The vet told us that thee were no problems and that we could keep the cat. My dad then said that we needed to train the cat because he did not want a cat that was useless. My brother then named him Oreo because he said he looked like

scared of cats but I was excited nonetheless. My mom and I googled local animal shelters and we came across SPCALA website. As we explored the site’s adoptable kittens page, I spotted a 3 month old female kitten and I pointed her out to my mom. My mom and I fell in love with the kitten whose name was Monroe. That very weekend we drove the 30 minutes to Long Beach where the animal shelter was located and filled out the adoption application. Within an hour we had officially adopted our first cat. Recently

In the novel The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien introduces Jimmy Cross, who is the Lieutenant of the platoon and who is also in love with virgin Martha,a friend from back home. She sent him letters signed ‘love’ which only played with his head, causing him to think lascivious thoughts about her, “slowly, a bit distracted, he would get up and move along with his men”(2). He was never fully in the war with Martha buzzing through his mind every waking second. When the men were on a mission, Jimmy

the United states euthanizes 2.7 million adoptable dogs and cats. Why? Well because the shelters are too full and people would rather buy one from a breeder at the mall. Shelters have been facing a pet overpopulation problem for the last few decades. Some animals are found wandering as strays, and some are surrendered by their owners who cannot, or no longer want to, care for them.. And it really is the truth If we stopped breeding cats and dogs and started focusing on rescuing them, we wouldn't

that have been in shelters, need passion and tenderness from whoever is taking care of them. And that is what I would plan to do. I would take such good care of the dogs and cats in the shelter, and I would make sure that they all are treated right. I am 100% sure that if I am the one taking care of the stray cats and stray dogs that their life will be better in the shelter with me than anywhere else. I would take care of the animals better than I take care of myself, because all they need is love

During my childhood, our family adopted a cat named Ultimate (or the cat adopted us). She was a kind, elderly cat that lived many years despite her partial blindness and deafness. Her kind and collected personality will always be what I remember about her. When a pet that grew up beside you dies, it is hard, but I did get over it. (Transition sentence). According to Burkhard Bilger in his essay “The Last Meow” from the New Yorker, many pet owners are going too far to keep their pets alive. People

Visualize cracking open the door to your local animal shelter. At first, you hear the howling of dogs, and maybe hissing from cats. Once you walk in, you notice an array of behaviors exhibited by these animals. Several bounce around joyfully and wag their tails. Others stay nestled in the corner, fearful. Row after row of animals sit in cages. The line may seem endless. Why do so many animals end up in shelters, and how is it affecting the lives of these animals that prevents most of them from being

Homicidal narrators. Reincarnated cats. Edgar Allan Poe’s stories are set apart from others because of his unique style of engaging the reader in more mystery, gothic horror, and morbid literary genres, such as Poe’s short story, “The Black Cat”. This is about a narrator who is driven to maltreat his pets because of his intoxication. After murdering his cat Pluto, he then finds a stray who looks identical to Pluto, except it has a mark on its chest, resembling the outline of a gallow. This strange

Visualize cracking open the door to your local animal shelter. At first, you hear the howling of dogs, and maybe hissing from cats. Once you walk in, you notice an array of behaviors exhibited by these animals. Several bounce around joyfully and wag their tails. Others stay nestled in the corner, fearful. Row after row of animals sit in cages. The line may seem endless. Why do so many animals end up in shelters, and how is it affecting the lives of these animals that prevents most of them from being

and saving strays from being put to sleep. If people are going to continue to spends lot’s of money on their pets than people are going

Visualize cracking open the door to your local animal shelter. At first, you hear the howling of dogs, and maybe hissing from cats. Once you walk in, you notice an array of behaviors exhibited by these animals. Several bounce around joyfully and wag their tails. Others stay nestled in the corner, fearful. Row after row of animals sit in cages. The line may seem endless. Why do so many animals end up in shelters, and how is it affecting the lives of these animals that prevents most of them from being

About Black Cats That Made Them Halloween Icons What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you see a pumpkin head, a witch and a black cat? Automatically, we think about Halloween! This is because our minds were trained to do this since we were small fearful little kids. It’s not a secret that if you want to get a gazillion hits on your YouTube video, simply include a cute cat in it. People adore cats, when they see a cute cat video, nothing will stop them from clicking the video. Cats are click

Blue indicates areas of high risk. Cat-Scratch Disease BACKGROUND Cat-scratch disease (CSD), caused by the gram-negative coccobacillus Bartonella henselae, is a zoonosis that usually manifests in children as subacute regional lymphadenitis. Cats are the natural reservoir for B henselae and in developing countries up to 70% of urban domestic cats and 90% of stray cats carry the organism. The cat flea, Ctenocephalides felis, transmits B henselae between cats. The distribution of CSD is worldwide