Animal Welfare Professionals

I've recently been named Director of Animal Services for Abbeville County, where a new shelter is being completed in late Summer of this year. This will be a new venture for the county as we have never had an animal care and control program before. Our facility will be small and will rely on external assistance with veterinary care and spay/neuter. I'd like to keep intake of cats to a minimum while offering options for the public to participate in TNR if they wish. I'm looking for suggestions and/or precedents or model cases where similar practices have occurred in small, rural counties. If anyone can offer suggestions or input, it would be greatly appreciated. 

You might want to look at: https://www.town.rehoboth.ma.us/animal-control/pages/animal-control-policies to see that, and at our site at https://www.town.rehoboth.ma.us/animal-advisory-committee .   This was created by

Richard Panofsky

rpanofsky@umassd.edu

It is a small Massachusetts town trying to do the best for their animals.

Thanks. I will read over the information

I am in charge of our local TNR program as a volunteer leader. To work most effectively, I do not sit by a trap myself, but rather meet with the colony feeder, set them up with the needed amount of traps, arrange for the spay/neuter, instruct them on the basics of trapping, and have them monitor the traps. If they are able to, they transport, hold, and recover the cats, otherwise my volunteers and I step in. I am available on the phone through the whole process if they need advice or hands-on help. This way we have TNRed over a thousand cats in 4 years with only three volunteers. The impact is visible in intake and kitten numbers.