There are\nthousands of feral cats throughout the city of Yakima. They are usually too fearful to be handled or adopted, but there\nis a program available to help with the feral cat population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the Yakima City Council’s Public Safety Committee meeting last Thursday, August 1st<\/sup>,\u00a0Code Administration Manager Joe Caruso shared about the Yakima Humane Society Spay & Neuter Clinic’s “Trap-Neuter-Return” (TNR) program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “A female\ncat can become pregnant as young as 16 weeks of age and go on to have two or three litters a year, so the feral cat population – and the problems\nassociated with it – grows and perpetuates,” said Caruso. “In just a\ncouple of years a single female cat and her kittens can produce dozens of cats.\nFortunately, TNR practices now offer a humane solution\nto euthanization.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n TNR\ninvolves:<\/p>\n\n\n\n To participate, call the Yakima Humane Society Spay & Neuter Clinic\nat 509-426-2460 to schedule an appointment. A few\ndays before the appointment, the clinic loans participants a trap at no cost to\ncatch the feral cat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The clinic\nprovides the spaying and neutering procedures at a reduced charge of $25 for\nferal cats. The fee covers not only the surgery, but also a rabies vaccine as well as\ntreatment for fleas and ticks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The City of Yakima Municipal Code limits pet owners to no more than six\ncats. They must be vaccinated for rabies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The City’s code does not require a license for cats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Click https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/codes\/<\/a> for more information about the\nCity’s Offices of Code Administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are thousands of feral cats throughout the city of Yakima. They are usually too fearful to be handled or adopted, but there is a program available to help with the feral cat population. During the Yakima City Council’s Public Safety Committee meeting last Thursday, August 1st,\u00a0Code Administration Manager Joe Caruso shared about the Yakima<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7650,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7647\/revisions\/7650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}