Letter to Albany Democrat Herald Editor

 Dear Albany community residents, it is my pleasure to bring to light the recent rise in the number of stray cats. This letter informs on measures each one of you can take to help in the matter.

One of the most important things to take note of is the role cats play in the community.  Hence, the projected feeding ban for stray cats may not lead to relevant results. An attempt to starve strays cats within the community may fail since similar bans failed to work in other communities. To attain positive results, we must work together toward a common goal. At the moment the most pressing need is to take care of the rodent issue, prevent cats from eating birds, and messing up the backyard. If you are reading this letter, this means that you are concerned about the plight of the community. To achieve great outcomes, the community needs to get rid of outdated mechanisms and move toward implementing community accepted interventions hence preventing stray cats from disrupting the normal flow of the community activities. Via community initiatives stray cats can be humanely trapped, spayed or sterilized, or immunized, ear-tipped, and even sent back to outdoor environs.

Everyone must play a role in reducing the menacing impact of stray cats. As mentioned earlier, the trap-neuter-return mechanism is one of the most effective manners to combat stray cats and contain the situation from worsening.

 For the sake of bringing the matter into a proper context, stray cats refer to any feline or untamed cat without a home or a human caregiver. Nevertheless, with your contribution, they might still get a chance to live a proper life within manageable surroundings. With help from the county government, residents can begin to provide Trap-Neuter-Return to cat lovers who are willing to adopt the cats into their homes. Here are some of the recommended way of assisting the community- printing and distributing educational material to community members so that they can be informed on the most suitable mechanisms of handling stray cats, procedural mannerism of catering to the needs of the cats without harming them, training them on to catch food and be self-reliant, and how to shelter them under safe and clean surroundings. The methods mentioned above are cost-effective and helps in the management of the entire stray cats and even if one wants he or she can introduce other related programs to take part in the management process in action.

 The quest for a clean community everyone is free to pursue any procedure he or she deems suitable. For instance, all residents from the neighborhood association to children, everyone can take up an active role in the situation and help in the management of the entire situation. You all know this is a community problem and the only way we can deal with it is if we join our hands together and support each other in the quest for a better community. This is not only a call for action but the call to assist each other forge ahead and create something special for the community. In the long run, the need to join hands and mitigate the issue at hand is heading towards us fast enough.

 Please keep in mind that, this letter is not against cat lovers it is a call of action to help stray cats through spaying.  Our communities have lived in harmony with cats for far too long and the coexistence will continue as long the cats are life under manageable conditions. It is up to us to step up and bring about the desired change. Everyone has to live in a community that respects each other decisions without infringing on their human rights. It is important to help cats find a home or put them under the care and supervision of a professional. Thank you for your consideration.