The proliferation of stray cats on the streets is negative for many reasons. The kittens are neglected, often infested with parasites and malnourished. In addition, they can become violent and reactive. These situations occur due to animal abandonment, while unwanted litters proliferate due to lack of control in their reproduction.
This arouses concern among lovers of these animals, who try to contribute their grain of sand to improve the situation of stray kitties. However, you should know that many municipal ordinances prohibit giving food to wild animals in the streets. And they need many other attentions beyond their diet.
While animal shelters and shelters often take care of stray cats, they can’t always take on the burden. Faced with this situation, feline colonies are an excellent alternative. But you must know how to mount yours correctly to avoid both harm from cats and conflicts with administrations, authorities and neighbors.
A feline colony is a certain group of stray cats that, although they live in freedom, are grouped in a community controlled by an association or individual. The mission of these groups is to ensure the maximum well-being of the kittens, because while some are meek and can go to shelters or be adopted by other families, others have been living on the street for so long that they do not accept another way of life.
Therefore, the task of the feline colony is to provide them with quality food, as well as to ensure good hygienic-sanitary conditions for the animals. This implies deworming them, taking them to the vet if they are injured and sterilizing the members of the colony to remedy reproduction and unwanted litters.
If you want to set up a feline colony to take care of the cats in your neighborhood, you should know that there are very specific regulations on these that you must comply with to make it legal and not have problems. In this regard, you can request information and help from shelters and protectors, as well as veterinary clinics.
In any case, you must register your feline colony in the corresponding Town Hall and have certain permits. For your feline colony to be effective, it is imperative that you identify the cats that make it up, keeping an updated record of the number of felines, the sixth, approximate ages, etc.
You will have to capture the cats of your feline colony, sterilize them and release them again, identifying that they are neutered by a mark on the ear. In addition, you will have to take care of their veterinary care if they are injured and keep their vaccinations and deworming up to date. To give them water and food, you have to go to the same time and place every day so that they acquire this habit and come to you, because you cannot leave feeders or drinkers in the street. In fact, you will need a special card that allows you to feed them.
