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PAWS, Ateneo launch program for stray cats on campus

5/22/2015

 
Jaymee T. Gamil, Philippine Daily Inquirer 
reposted from http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/692842/paws-ateneo-launch-program-for-stray-cats-on-campus
PAWS, Ateneo launch TNR program for stray cats on campusONE OF the stray cats which has made the Ateneo de Manila University campus in Quezon City her home rests after she is spayed by a veterinarian. photo: Jaymee Gamil
Striking a compromise between the welfare of students and compassion for animals, the Philippine Animal Welfare and Society (Paws) and Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) have launched a trap-neuter-release (TNR) program for stray cats on the Quezon City campus.

Since last week, Paws has been capturing the stray cats on the sprawling 85-hectare property in Barangay Loyola Heights. The animals are either spayed or neutered by a licensed veterinarian and given an antirabies vaccination before being returned to the school grounds.

The TNR program was in line with the memorandum of agreement (MOA) Paws signed with ADMU officials last Nov. 25. Under the MOA, the animal welfare group will conduct the TNR and vaccination program for 80 identified stray cats with the school providing a P300 subsidy per feline.

Ateneo would also be in charge of conducting an inventory of the stray cats and manage the cat colony by setting up feeding areas away from areas frequented by people.


PAWS volunteers inspect a spayed cat at the launch of the Ateneo/PAWS program to neuter Ateneo's cat population.PAWS volunteers inspect a spayed cat at the launch of the Ateneo/PAWS program to neuter Ateneo's cat population. Photo from Ateneo de Manila University Facebook page
“We want to promote human health and safety as well as animal welfare. Because of the increasing number of cats, we thought they might post risks to the students but we wanted a humane management,” said Josephy Almosera, assistant director of the campus safety and mobility office, in an interview with the Inquirer.

Almosera noted that in the past years, there had been “isolated incidents” of people on the campus being scratched or bitten and “we didn’t want that to happen again.”

Though Paws has implemented the TNR program in barangays, this is the first time it conducted the program inside a school.

“At the Marikina pound alone, every month, 200 [stray] animals are euthanized. We’re trying to change that ‘collect and kill’ mindset. With the TNR program, an area will be free of rodents as cats continue to live out their lives without adding to the population,” Paws executive director Anna Cabrera said in an interview.

On its second week, the program has already neutered and spayed 47 cats and returned 36. The spayed or neutered cats, at least six months of age, will have notches on their ears to set them apart from others.

As part of the program, a “one-stop-shop” mobile clinic was set up at the Ateneo High School parking lot last May 20, providing on-the-spot spaying and neutering for some of the captured cats.

Cabrera advised minimal human interaction with the cats to prevent incidents of scratching or biting. Just “create an environment where the cats are still strays but they’re not being harmed; they’re surviving,” she said. With Deany Cheng, trainee



ATENEO PARTNERS WITH PAWS TO CONTROL THE UNIVERSITY'S CATS

Reposted from the Ateneo de Manila University website: http://www.ateneo.edu/news/features/ateneo-partners-paws-control-universitys-cats
The PAWS Spay-Neuter Mobile Clinic at the Ateneo's High School grounds
The PAWS Trap-Neuter-Release van and mobile clinic parked at Ateneo's High School grounds
PAWS Executive Director Anna H. Cabrera orients PAWS volunteers for the Ateneo TNR project
PAWS Executive Director Anna H. Cabrera orients PAWS volunteers on the task at hand
An Ateneo stray cat ready for release
An Ateneo stray cat ready for release
Ateneo de Manila University and the Philippine Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) entered into an agreement intended to control the growing cat population in the campus.

Under the agreement, PAWS’ Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) program for the stray cats on campus will become part of the Ateneo Community Cat Program (ACCaP) to be overseen by Engr. Josephy F. Almosera of the Campus Security and Mobility Office (CSMO).

ACCaP is Ateneo’s program for the humane management of the resident cat population.

Under the TNR program, cats are humanely captured in various areas around the campus and spayed/neutered by PAWS’ licensed veterinarian Dr. Wilford Almoro.
PAWS Executive Director Anna H. Cabrera said the cats are then kept at the PAWS shelter for four to five days to allow their surgical wounds to dry up, and then returned to their original habitat.

Almosera said the round up of cats in mid-May had better results than the previous round-up carried out in late January.

The ACCaP feeding program for the resident cat population began January 20, 2015. Cats were fed regularly in designated sites under the care and supervision of each unit. Almosera explained that the round-up of cats was supposed to have been carried out after feeding, but very few cats were appearing at the feeding sites.
 
Taking advantage of the extended summer vacation and a near-vacant campus, PAWS volunteers scoured the grounds and trapped a substantial portion of Ateneo’s cat population. At their last count, the CSMO pegged the number of cats on campus at 80.


Photos from the Ateneo de Manila University website

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