April 17, 2014
Categories: Shelter Medicine, Community Cats

How a tiny staff, a giant volunteer pool and a relentless will to save cats can end the use of euthanasia for population management, even in the most challenging communities.

VideoCommCatsOperation Catnip's proactive "litter prevention" program performs 3,000 trap-neuter-return (TNR) surgeries each year for community cats using monthly high-quality, high-volume spay/neuter clinics capable of sterilizing more than 200 cats in a single day.

By neutering and returning these shelter cats to their neighborhoods, cat euthanasia plummeted to 13 percent in 2012, making Alachua County the safest place to be a cat in Florida.

Dr. Julie Levy, Director of Maddie's® Shelter Medicine Program at the University of Florida, and Shaye Olmstead, Executive Director of Operation Catnip, gave a presentation at Face-to-Face with Feral Freedom in Jacksonville, FL, demonstrating how a tiny staff, a giant volunteer pool and a relentless will to save cats can end euthanasia as a way to manage populations, even in the most challenging communities.

You can view the presentation at the links below:

Community Solutions for Community Cats, Part 1

Community Solutions for Community Cats, Part 2