Tnr Pros And Cons

According to the humane society (2016), 36.1 million households in the United States have a cat as a pet, with an average of 2.58 people per household, so thirty percent of Americans have a cat as a pet (“Pets By The Numbers”, 2016). If an animal shelter mistakes a pet cat for a stray cat or a feral cat, what should they do with them? Should they wait the five days and euthanize them, or should they give them a chance? Should they let the cat live, and if so what is the difference between a domestic cat and a feral cat? They are the same type of animal, so what causes a pet to be of more importance? TNR, trap-neuter-release, gives those cats a chance to live. Wouldn’t you want a chance at life too? They are being killed for merely being alive, it is an abomination for humans who have rights, and even promote animal rights, to do these things. Trap-neuter-release and euthanasia are the only prominent procedures for dealing with stray and feral cats, but TNR is the better choice logically …show more content…
According to Solano Ferals (2016), feral cats have an average of 1.4 liters per year with an average of 3.5 live births of each liter. That equals 4.9 kittens per year, per female cat. A pair of breeding cats and their offspring can produce 420,000 kittens over a seven-year period. (“Statistics”, 2016). If millions of kittens are born in the US each year, how does killing one cat at a time help with the population problem of cat colonies? Of course TNR has some issues, it can’t help the overpopulation problem right away, but it does help prevent reproduction, and over time numbers of cat colonies will significantly drop. Nothing is effective right away, and TNR is no different. It is, however, more effective than euthanasia. Euthanasia only kills a few animals at a time, while there are many more being born every day. Euthanasia is a very ineffective way of reducing populations of colonies, and hurts more than it