Please support proposed changes to the animal ordinance of Arlington, Texas, to make it legal to trap-neuter-return (TNR) within the already existing colonies of cats. TNR has been proven in thousands of cities to be the humane and fiscally responsible method of dealing with the feral/stray cat overpopulation problem.
Why is this important?
During the month of May, Arlington Animal Services euthanized almost 500 cats. We don't know how many of them were feral, because the records don't tell us that, but what we do know is that any feral cat that comes to AAS is euthanized almost immediately, since they are not adoptable. Using a low end estimate for what it costs a municipality to trap and kill an animal, Arlington likely spent $30,000 in May alone to kill cats. There are approximately 60,000 feral/stray cats in Arlington. Trap-and-kill methods cannot possibly keep up with the birth rate in that large a cat population. TNR is the only humane and fiscally responsible way to deal with this problem.
