Laurel Cats

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Laurel Cats is a community effort to find and implement ways for free-roaming "community" cats to live harmoniously alongside people, their homes, and their businesses throughout Laurel, Maryland while humanely reducing their numbers. The recent housing crisis resulted in a large number of evicted homeowners and tenants leaving unsterilized cats behind to fend for themselves and breed. Several generations later, this has resulted in a huge number of unsocialized community cats throughout Laurel. While it is the goal of most people to reduce this community cat population, traditional trap-and-remove programs have been shown repeatedly to be expensive, ineffective, and invariably result in the death of the cats. Prince George's County alone euthanizes 4,000 cats per year with no noticeable reduction in the free-roaming cat population. Fortunately, there are effective, humane, and cost efficient solutions available. Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR), where cats are humanely trapped, sterilized, vaccinated, ear-tipped and released where they were found, has been proven to be part of a successful method of managing and reducing free-roaming cat populations. It is a win-win solution for cat lovers and property managers alike - the health of the cats greatly improves through spay/neuter, vaccinations, and on-going colony care and cat problems associated with mating including yowling, spraying, fighting, and rampant kittens are reduced or eliminated while the colony steadily declines in numbers. As such, cities across the country, including locally Baltimore, Washington DC, Fairfax, Greenbelt, and most recently, Laurel, are rapidly adopting TNR programs.

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