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Resident urges council to adopt trap-neuter-vaccinate-return policy for outdoor cats

6433649 · October 22, 2025
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A resident urged the council to update local ordinances to align with Utah's Community Cat Act and adopt a trap-neuter-vaccinate-return (TNVR) approach, saying current practice leads to impoundment and killing of healthy community cats and wastes shelter resources.

During the meeting’s open public comment period, Provo resident Katie Volpe urged the council to adopt humane, evidence-based policies for outdoor community cats, specifically asking the city to stop impounding and killing healthy community cats and to implement a trap-neuter-vaccinate-return (TNVR) program in line with Utah’s…

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