Baltimore County Introduces Initiative To Help Lower Stray Cat Populations

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TOWSON, Md. (WJZ) — Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski introduced an inaugural Monday to assistance the region humanely woody with its stray feline population.

The Joy Freedman Care for Cats Act would formalize the county’s existing Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) aviator programme to assistance efficaciously power the population.

“We cognize that TNR is an ethical, humane, and non‐lethal way to lower our County’s free-roaming feline population,” Olszewski said. “Affirming the County’s existing aviator programme into instrumentality volition assistance guarantee we continue to responsibly code the fig of feral cats in our communities.”

TNR involves the humane trapping of cats that unrecorded extracurricular and don’t person owners. Once trapped, the feline is sterilized, vaccinated, and ear-tipped astatine a surgical center, and then returned to the country wherever they were primitively found.

By reducing the colonisation of stray cats successful communities, TNR protects quality wellness by vaccinating the cats against rabies and is supported by starring carnal advocacy organizations, including the ASPCA and the Humane Society.

Baltimore County would join Baltimore City, Anne Arundel County and Prince George’s County, arsenic good arsenic galore jurisdictions nationwide successful operating a TNR program.

This measure is named successful representation of Joy Freedman, a founding subordinate of the Baltimore County Animal Services Advisory Commission and lifelong carnal advocate.

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“The Baltimore County Animal Services Advisory Commission is profoundly grateful to County Executive Olszewski and his team for creating this legislation, codifying TNR in Baltimore County,” said Deborah Stone Hess, Chair of the Animal Services Advisory Commission. “Naming the bill for Joy gives it peculiar meaning, incorporating her heavy love for animals into a caller instrumentality protecting cats on our county’s streets.”