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想有个好归宿就付$25每只，他们放网上供领养
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送SPCA就只能等着人道处理...
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SPCA advice on stray kittens: Shoot them
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Last updated 09:32 10/04/2014
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Jess Woodcock with three of the kittens at the centre. BRUCE MERCER CATASTROPHIC: Waikato SPCA small animal team leader Jess Woodcock with three of the kittens at the centre.
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Megan Keen was horrified when she rang the local animal shelter for advice on what to do with 12 stray cats and kittens running around her Tokoroa property.5 W1 H: @" m5 n E+ H
Keen was told she had three options: Do nothing, take them to the vet to get euthanised, or take them to a farm to be shot "humanely".! e9 j- ]1 M, Z5 d" v
"I got off the phone and thought, ‘Did that really happen?'."$ t. v2 B: [( N2 N: d
She said she was expecting the South Waikato SPCA to take the kittens at least, and re-home them.' R, x( @ P8 k+ Y1 k/ ?: M9 g
But, centre manager Lorna Hutchinson said, they can't do the impossible.+ z! ^- d2 o# f: l5 Z) E' [
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"When people say, ‘We've got cats', and we tell them we've got no more space, then they get cross." But the only people who consider stray cats pests are the ones calling up, she said.
"Everyone thinks the SPCA should take care of stray cats, but there's no cruelty in being a stray cat."
Hutchinson said people seemed to prefer euthanisation by a vet over "humanely" shooting cats, but at $15 a pop, someone had to foot the bill.4 _8 |# ?6 D: @0 s8 u* V) E
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"People say, ‘Well I can't afford that'. But we can't either.": Q$ k2 h! c5 v$ y' B
The SPCA's Tokoroa facility can house up to 70 cats and kittens and was at full capacity.
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She said the money to euthanise the cats and kittens had to come from somewhere. The South Waikato SPCA's entire income comes through fundraising, and they barely had enough to feed the animals, let alone euthanise them.8 q+ n* \% V9 J4 c6 A- o% {1 D
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If people were unhappy with the service they needed to dig deeper into their own pockets or start lobbying the South Waikato District Council to work with the SPCA, Hutchinson said.
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"If the council would get on board and work with us with some funding, we could manage the stray and feral population a lot better."& |( K! R p/ }0 R" S* T
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"They are a community problem, not an SPCA problem," she said.
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However, council regulatory group manager Sharon Robinson said they had never received a formal submission for funding from the SPCA.( [, R& `6 e' b
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"This would be discussed and deliberated on by council as part of the annual planning process."5 ^6 z6 \; B& q7 }' O/ o
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Robinson said councils were not legally required to deal with cats, however.
Royal New Zealand SPCA chief executive Ric Odom said while he would never advocate shooting kittens as a means of disposing of them, Hutchinson and her colleagues were in a desperate situation and he had a lot of sympathy for them., T3 b; @! u0 Z& E5 y
"The SPCA's point of view is that the preferred form of euthanisation is a lethal injection administered by a vet./ C" C" z3 W! j L7 f, N5 K) e6 K, p
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"I'm not advocating shooting, but what other options are available?
"I really feel for Lorna and her team. They are trying to do their best with very limited resources. There is a public expectation that we be able to deal with these cats, but it is really hard. We get no government funding. We get by through self-generated funding, through op shops and the suchlike, and the generosity of New Zealanders.
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"From time to time we get overwhelmed. The council there is aware there is a stray cat issue, but they don't want to pick up the issue because there is a cost involved. They should be working with us to beat this problem."2 T9 {$ d" \: ?' o3 [" x
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Waikato SPCA executive officer Sara Elliott-Warren said it was not appropriate to comment on the affairs of their South Waikato counterparts, but they were also at full capacity., X, R. I+ n @7 i2 r2 J
"On site we would have about 55 but there are another 360 in foster homes.
"This is our peak time of year. People think that it is just before Christmas, but there is a second, bigger wave of kittens that hits us around April and May."
Because recent summers had been longer and warmer, that equated to more cats breeding - and more kittens to deal with.
"But that's nothing new. It's been like that for a few years now. That's just one of the effects of global warming for you."
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第一只虎皮猫，第二只脸上像京剧演员呢，
帮顶。。。。
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啊? 真的吗? 是所有动物都在那被人道处理吗
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第二个我好爱。。但是家里实在养不了 T,T
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不会的，我家的老猫就是从SPCA领养的
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我也很无奈，今天猫妈妈已经绝育了！
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SPCA猫满为患。。看首页新闻，他们都不收小猫的
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人道处理还要花钱的
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本帖最后由 annie0002 于 2014-4-11 22:45 编辑 8 n: `4 G3 | A8 w
屯里的SPCA还不错，我在那里做过义工。奥克兰的听说猫太多了，都不收的
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估计就是此一时彼一时，在SPCA没有能力承担的时候，而流浪猫数量实在太多的时候政策就不一样了。。。
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不知道这里的流浪猫有没有免费的绝育名额？其实可以鼓励救助者自己去捉流量母猫送去指定地方手术，费用全免。
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这样会有人贪小便宜的，把自己的家猫也送去免费绝育了
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是的，所以国际惯例是给做了绝育的猫的耳朵截耳做标记（比如母猫就做左耳，公猫就做右耳，把猫耳朵尖截取一段）。一般家猫，主人都不会愿意这么做。
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现在上海就是这么做的，当然都是民间组织，比如各宠物论坛自己筹备绝育基金，同时跟某些宠物医院合作谈一个极低的手术费用。北京好像早就开始了。
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wow, 阴阳脸哦！ 厉害
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我有留言给你啊 也不见你回复啊 楼主
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帮顶楼主。。。福猫快被领养
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谢谢谢谢..................
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白手套猫顶顶
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丁丁.................
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好萌的猫猫~~~~太可爱了，家里不能养宠物，帮楼主顶~~~
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这只猫前途无量……
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要猫的快来呀.................