Two Alberta animal shelters adopting new life-saving program for cats
Posted Jun 29, 2016 8:17 pm.
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The humane societies in both Calgary and Edmonton are adopting a new pilot program, which will provide life-saving measures for cats.
The program is called Capacity for Care and has shown a 40-87 per cent decrease in cats at three shelters that already have the program in place.
Calgary’s Manager of Communications, Sage Pullen-McIntosh, is hoping the shelter here will see similar results.
“Having the grant, and having the ability to work with the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies, has really helped us kick start this, so we are pretty excited and we do anticipate seeing some changes fairly quickly,” Pullen-McIntosh said.
There are some recommendations for the project, that include, giving cats their own space and litter box, which would prevent them from being stressed, as well as switching to a scheduled intake process.
Pullen-McIntosh says some changes have already been implemented behind the scene.
“Hopefully, you won’t hear from us that we are having an emergency event, because we won’t have to. Our goal has always been that we want to help as many animals as we can, and it’s always been that maybe someday we won’t need an animal shelter.”
