Kitty At My Foot and I Want to Touch It: Free TNR Training from ICVS

Regardless of how we feel about humans, most of us would do anything to for a feline in need. The International Center for Veterinary Services wants to help you help cats by controlling the population of stray and feral cats in your neighborhood. ICVS is providing free training and certification to cat care providers and volunteers to promote Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) programs this Saturday, June 22. Certified TNR practitioners may borrow traps from the ICVS trap bank and request assistance from ICVS TNR experts and volunteers to conduct mass trappings.

ICVS has also has some helpful information for those of us who have taken a cat into our own home and refuse to release it. They recommend we keep our cats indoors because:

“Indoor cats generally lead longer, healthier lives. Strictly indoor cats do not face the dangers of the great outdoors such as passing vehicles, being injured in fights with or sustaining attacks by other animals and cats, being exposed to infectious diseases spread among cats such as Feline Leukemia and Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FeLV/FIV), feline viral infections such as Feline Viral Rhinotracheitis, Calicivirus and Panleukopenia. Rabies is also a very real danger in China and is one of the leading fatal infectious diseases in the PRC with 2,000 to 3,000 deaths annually.

The rabies virus is present in the saliva of an infected animal and may be transmitted between mammals through bites and licks on open wounds or mucous membranes (e.g., mouth, lips, nostrils, eyes, etc.). Unvaccinated dogs and cats may carry the rabies virus that could infect other animals and humans. In China, more than 95% of the rabies infections in humans were transmitted by dogs. "

Much more information for you and your pets available here.

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