I have started a petition to be presented during my meeting with the Mayor and Council. It asks for funding from the municipality to be provided for a Trap, Neuter, Return (TNR) program in Halifax Regional Municipality.
It reads as follows:
Healing Animal SCARS – Sonya’s Cat & Animal Rescue Society Petition Started August 5th, 2009
Phone 469-MEOW Email: katsonya@accesswave.ca by Sonya Higgins
Website: http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/NS28.html 143 Briarwood Drive, Eastern Passage, NS B3G 1B7
Petition to HRM for TNR of stray and feral cats
We, the undersigned, do request municipal funding from HRM to create a TNR (Trap, Neuter, Return) program for stray and feral cats in our community. TNR involves humanely trapping cats to take to the vet for medical attention, including testing for Feline Leukemia and FIV, then fully vaccinating each cat and getting it spayed or neutered to prevent population growth. Tame cats and kittens would be put into shelters and adoption programs, while feral or wild cats would be returned to their original location and provided with a volunteer caretaker to feed and monitor the cat colony for injured or sick cats, and to watch for new entries that would need to be TNR’ed to keep the colony size stable.
I would like to get help to distribute paper copies of this petition across HRM, in businesses and workplaces. If anyone would like copies, please contact Sonya at 469-MEOW or email katsonya@accesswave.ca
My lofty goal is to obtain 25,000 signatures. If we can show the politicians that this is an issue that matters to the taxpayers of HRM, perhaps they will take it seriously and consider providing tax dollars $$ to volunteer groups, who could carry out the work on behalf of HRM. All we need is money to pay the vets!
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