The El Paso City Council will be meeting on Tuesday, February 23 to vote on important changes to El Paso’s Animal Ordinance. The changes include adding definitions for “eartipped cats” and “trap-neuter-return,” and excluding community cats from laws that would put them in animal shelters, where they will likely be killed.
El Paso residents: Tell City Council to support the animal ordinance amendments.
If these amendments pass, eartipped cats will be exempt from certain registration and impoundment requirements. If eartipped cats are taken to shelters, they can be returned to their outdoor homes without the mandatory hold period. These changes mean community cats would not stay in shelters, where most would be killed because they are not socialized and therefore unadoptable.
The amendments also support Trap-Neuter-Return by excluding the returning of TNR’d cats from the definition of abandonment and requiring that the city’s loaned cat traps only be used for TNR efforts.
El Paso residents, take action and speak up to support these important, lifesaving amendments!
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