The Cape May, New Jersey, Feral and Stray Cats Need Your Support
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For months now, Cape May has been pressured by the New Jersey field office of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to abolish its successful humane cat management program known as Trap-Neuter-Return  - a move that would endanger the lives of hundreds of outdoor cats.

Cape May was one of the first local governments to implement Trap-Neuter-Return as the policy for feral cats – a decision which has proven enormously successful. Cape May’s stray and feral cat population has dropped 80 percent since the program’s inception in the mid-1990s, from around 450 cats to under 100 today. The population continues to decline.

If the program is forced to end, outdoor cats will be trapped and most will be killed. Nationwide, 70 to 72% of cats entering shelters are killed, and for feral cats, this statistic rises to virtually 100%.

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