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Aloha Animal Alliance urges countywide, data-driven cat-management strategy and help-desk pilot
Summary
Aloha Animal Alliance asked the county Sept. 2 to back a countywide, data-driven program to manage community cats that emphasizes low-cost sterilization, caretaker training, a help desk and targeted trap-neuter-return management.
HILO, Hawaii — Aloha Animal Alliance presented a multi-pronged plan to the Communication Reports and Council Oversight Committee on Sept. 2 that aims to reduce community-cat populations through expanded access to spay/neuter services, a centralized help desk, caretaker certification, data tracking and targeted trap-neuter-return-management (TNVRM).
Lauren Turnbull Fu, co-founder and president of Aloha Animal Alliance, told the committee the group invested in durable field infrastructure, training and a software system to track sterilization and follow-up. "We invested in durable tools, traps, trail cams, microchip scanners and medical…
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