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Residents urge city help to expand trap-neuter-return program for growing feral cat population
Summary
Several Greenville residents told the City Council on Sept. 2 that the city's trap-neuter-return program needs more funding and coordination as caretakers report rising costs and an expanding feral-cat population; council staff said the city currently budgets $4,000 annually for TNR and will follow up.
Michael Guyette, a Greenville resident, told the City Council on Sept. 2 that he has cared for dozens of abandoned cats and that the town’s feral population is “exploding,” urging the city to help cover spay-and-neuter costs or otherwise support trap-neuter-return (TNR) efforts.
Guyette said he has about 30 cats he feeds and treats and that local caretakers are already spending their own money; “I’m not asking the city to do much, really, except for pay for spay and neutering somewhere,” he said. His brother, Matthew Guyette, spoke in…
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