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Title
TLC / for The Love of Cats
Description
TLC's Role in Cat Welfare
Our community, as many others, has focused primarily on sheltering homeless cats. This model works only when the number of displaced cats is in line with the number of available homes for them. With an estimated 60,000 homeless cats in Washtenaw County and several hundred relinquished pet cats each year, the system breaks down. The shelters soon overflow and are forced into euthanising or warehousing the surplus. Being knee-deep in cats, the shelters can barely handle the ones that come to them and have no time left over to address the root problems.
We believe that breaking this cycle is paramount. Only by increasing the cat adoption rate while decreasing the cat birth rate can all companion cats find loving homes and all feral cats live in managed outdoor colonies. So rather than operating as a shelter, we've chosen to supplement the valuable services of the existing local shelters with aggressive community outreach programs to reduce their intake.
This shifts our focus from saving individual cats to improving the lot of all cats. Our actions are targeted at solving the root problems of too many cats and too few homes. This is what causes the suffering of the individual cats and until it's addressed, all cats are at risk.
Contact
- Zimmer Foundation
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- Ann Arbor MI
- United States 48113-0944
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- +1.734663800
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