Feral Cats

Pet owner’s need to be aware of the responsibility it is to be a proper pet owner. Domestic animal do not only need their love and attention they require regular visit to the veterinarians where they can take proper precautions for unwanted pregnancies. Every day there are 70,000 puppies and cats that are born there is not enough homes for all these pets.(Harvey,Alyssa) Animal shelters have endorsed sterilization ensuring pet owners that sterilizing a pet is less expensive than the cost of a litter of puppies or kittens. In Hidalgo County I found a clinic that has received a $90,000 grant from PetSmart Charities to spay/neuter to help reduce pet overpopulation. The program offers

Every day in the United States, approximately 10,000 people and 70,000 puppies and kittens are born. There will never be enough homes for all of these animals, and as a result millions are killed by animal control or die by themselves every year. If people would adopt their pets from a rescue or shelter, and not buy from pet stores or breeders, many lives would be saved and a lot of misery would be averted. Also, you end up with a great animal.

More than three decades ago Peter Singer heralded the need for a new kind of liberation movement, one calling for a radical expansion of the human moral canvas and more importantly, a rejection of the horrors human beings have inflicted for millennia upon other sentient beings, treatment historically considered as being both natural and unalterable. Often regarded as being the father of the modern animal liberation movement, Singer contends that the campaign for animal

-We have developed the largest and most advanced monitoring program to more accurately measure cat densities using camera traps to identify individuals. The population of feral cats on Mornington-Marion Downs is estimated at

In “The Case for Animal Rights,” Regan states that instead of viewing animals as existing solely for human disposal, or as having value only because they retain the same feelings of pain and satisfaction humans do, we should consider animals as

Population Control: Help control the U.S. pet population with spay and neuter services. The Humane Society notes an estimated 6 to 8 million homeless animals enter U.S. shelters every year, with less than half of these pets adopted and the rest euthanized.

With feral cats posing ecological and public health threats, many different techniques, reflecting a range of moral and ethical values, have been proposed and implemented. TNR is considered one of the most humane methods, but other methods that exist include euthanasia, trap and eradication, and more intensive versions of TNR that include vaccinations and rehabilitations. These methods vary in their effectiveness, practicality, cost and social acceptance. Additionally, differences in how people perceive animals and their intrinsic value, have made feral cat mitigation efforts an extremely charged topic for animal welfare advocates, policy makers, conservationists and pet owners. When analyzing methods, it’s important to evaluate what their goals are in terms of managing feral cat populations, state their ethical and moral perspective, and determine their effectiveness. Additionally, their impact on cat behavior will be explored using evidence from a variety of related studies, which will serve to assist in judging the effectivity of the population control method.

For decades philosophers have argued the rights of animals and animal suffering. It was Descartes who first proposed the mechanistic theory of the universe, the aim of which was to show that the world could be explained without relying on the concept of subjective experience. This approach was extended to the issue of animal consciousness. Descartes’ asserted that animals were nothing but ‘complex automata’ and are unable to respond in complex ways to ‘all contingencies of life’ thus reasoning that animals are not conscious and

The article “Animals, Predators, the Right to Life, and the Duty to Save Lives” was written by Aaron Simmons. Simmons has a phD in Animal Sciences, and also has a Doctorate degree in Philosophy. He has won many awards and grants, including the award for featured student in the field: Animal Sciences. He also has multiple years of academic teaching and researching experience. In his article he uses his experience to examine this, “does an animal's right to life also entail that we have a duty to assist animals in preserving their lives when they are endangered” (Simmons 14). Simmons examines this idea of animals right to life, equal to the idea of human rights. Like humans right to life, we have a duty to refrain

The rationale here is that this could be avoided, and a cat could enjoy a loving and safe home if they simply get declawed. In cattle, this mindset is also seen in a practice known as tail docking. For instance, "Dairy officials say the practice of cutting off cow tails to prevent them from slinging manure is practiced on fewer than 15 percent of the state 's 1.5 million dairy cows”(Schwarzenegger Saves Cow Tails). Less than 15% may seem like a small number, this means that 225,000 dairy cows get their tails cut off for “sanitary reasons” so that they can keep their animals happy rather than being sent to slaughter. These ideals are important to recognize as they express the relationships of the human-animal bond. People do care about their pets, and do want to keep, love, and save them. However, are we always doing the right thing?

A movement that grew from a combination of science and humanities is compassionate conservation, a relatively new field that “stipulates that we need a conservation ethic that incorporates the protection of other animals as individuals, not just as members of population or species but valued in their own right” (Ramp & Bekoff, 2015, p.325). Just as how human compassion considers each person to be as important as the next, this form of conservation values the individual regardless of its relation to other species or to humans. This is a large shift from traditional conservation views that only consider members of a species as nothing but a statistic to reflect the current state of a population. It also deviates from common economical viewpoints that do not consider individuals beyond something humans can

Seems rhetorical, but the fact is animals live through this everyday, without even given the choice. As humans, we establish our authority among all living beings, but for what reasons? Are humans better than all other species? Or is it true that we should hold a precedence over nonhuman animals? The ultimate question then remains, should animals have as much or equal to the same rights as humans? Their are endless arguments for and against this question, and many sub arguments that go hand in hand with each side. In this paper, I will discuss the definition of what animal rights entails and expand on the history that developed it’s meaning. Furthermore, I will thoroughly discuss, reason, and explain each opinion presented by our current society as well as the positions held by previous philosophers. Lastly, I will draw a conclusion to the opinions presented by discussing my personal position on the argument of animal rights.

Peter Singer’s argues that we should take a utilitarian viewpoint on how people should treat animals. He sees that animals can, in some cases, be smarter than humans and should therefore have some rights in how the animals should be treated. His argument holds this general viewpoint, “..we [should] extend to other species the basic

Thesis/Preview: Today, I will discuss three types of cats based on their shelters or living conditions: the pet cat, the feral cat, and the pseudo-wildcat.

However, Peter Carruthers extends this theory so that it defends the rights of animals. He suggests that a rational agent could enter into a contract for an animal, representing their interests in ‘the formulation of the basic contract’. There are also some human beings who cannot speak for themselves or question their actions, for example, fetuses, infants, the comatose, the senile and the severely retarded. These people are still assigned rights despite the fact that they are not moral agents. They may make the same simple instinctive decisions as animals, yet are given rights based upon their species.