Animal Welfare Professionals

Hot off the press! The Journal of Shelter Medicine and Community Animal Health just published an article by Sue Neal and me, in which we report the results of a survey of community cat caregivers.  Our findings-that community cat caregivers are very attached to the cats in their care-will probably be unsurprising to most people here, but we felt it was important to put some numbers behind what we've all known for years-and share by way of the published literature on the topic.

As we note toward the end of the article, our findings have clear policy implications-validating, for example, the common practice of returning healthy cats lacking identification (i.e. collar or microchip), regardless of perceived level of sociability, to where they were found, following sterilization and vaccination.