It is an obligation for the municipalities, they must control the proliferation of stray cats by ensuring their sterilization and identification. This Monday, September 27, 2021, the town hall of Egletons is organizing its second day of sterilization. We explain how and why.
Last August, 16 twinks and girls were captured, sterilized, identified and released in the district of La Bachellerie in Egletons. This Monday, September 27, 2021, the mayor hopes that at least as many cats can be captured and sterilized.
The operation is taking place today near the town’s retirement home.
The municipality has chosen to enlist the services of the group SACP, specializing in the management of stray cats, to manage the operation. “It is the SACPA technicians who put down the cat traps and come to pick them up the next day. It is they who then transport the cats with all the necessary precautions, check that they are not chipped, that they are in good health. They identify them, sterilize them and release them to their initial place of life “, says Mayor Charles Ferré.
A cat has its territory, leaving sterilized cats in place allows this territory to be protected from possible other cats who would like to colonize it.
“It is important to release them on the spot, because these cats have a real social utility and a particularly effective predatory role for small rodents,” adds Pierre Geneste, the director of technical services at the town hall. “Some of these cats, kittens in particular and some particularly docile adults, will even be offered for adoption, either at the SACPA refuge in Gerzat in the Puy-de-Dôme, which is organizing the operation, but also at theAssociation Protection Animale Egletonnaise.”
The operation is fully funded by the town hall, which pays SACPA: € 85 per sterilized male cat and € 115 for each female. The municipality plans to organize other days like this in order to sustainably control its free cat population.
The importance of having your cat sterilized
This is how a town hall takes matters into its own hands to control its population of free cats.
But the proliferation of cats is also everyone’s business.
Indeed, if the identification of dogs and cats is compulsory today, it is not the same for sterilization. There, no obligation, but recommendations, and common sense.
A couple of unsterilized cats can in just 4 years generate more than 20,000 cats.
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Having your cat neutered / neutered is therefore a civic commitment. On the other hand, it is now forbidden to give or sell a cat (or a dog) if it is not identified. (by electronic chip or tattoo), which generates a significant cost for the transferor. Clearly, if your kitten has babies, the law prohibits you from giving them away without them being identified.
In addition, the sterilization or castration of a cat is for him a guarantee of protection, as Dr. Sonthonnax explains: “Sterilization has several advantages on the health of the cat, it limits the wandering of the cat, sterilized it will have a smaller territory, will be less likely to be crushed. It limits fights, but certain diseases, such as coryza, can occur. transmitted during fights. Other diseases, potentially fatal, such as leukosis or IVF are also transmitted during sexual intercourse. It greatly limits the risk of breast tumors or infection of the uterus, knowing that breast tumors are usually cancerous in the cat, ” specifies the veterinarian.
“It’s very simple, the average life expectancy of an unvaccinated, non-neutered or neutered cat is only 4 to 5 years.”
And for those who would like to opt for contraception by pills or injections for their kitten, the veterinarian specifies: “Contraception, like reproduction, both promote infections of the uterus and breast tumors.”
Conclusion having your cat sterilized is also, and above all, an act of love!
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