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Proposed edits to the article "Feral cat":

In the section "Control and Management" paragraph 3, adding the following 2 paragraphs:

On January 2016, the American Veterinary Medical Association, while still acknowledging that there are many ways of handling how to best manage feral cats, has changed its policy with regard to the use of the Trap-Neuter- Return approach and now supports this non-lethal approach. The American Association of Feline Practitioners has also supported the TNR non-lethal approach to managing and reducing the feral cat population. The American Association of Feline Practitioner's position is that the management l of the feral population in this humane manner, will reduce the feral population and control feral cat colonies, which will not only benefit the feral cat, but also benefit the general public health, other wildlife, and the ecosystem. The non-lethal Trap-Neuter-Return approach is now being supported by veterinarians and nonprofit organizations all over the nation, as well as over 550 local laws. Both the American Association of Feline Practitioners and the American Veterinary Association are calling for cooperation and collaboration between all stakeholders in controlling and managing feral cat population in this humane manner. October 16th is actually designated as "National Feral Cat Day".

This growing support and trend towards managing and controlling the feral cat population in a more humane, non-lethal TNR approach, is consistent with the evolving ethics on how the feral cat population is being ethically viewed. . In the past 10 years there has been a shift from the way feral cats are viewed from an ethics and public opinion perspective. The change has been from viewing the feral cat from an anthropocentric ethic perspective to a zoocentric ethic perspective, where the feral cat is now given its own intrinsic value, including having compassion for it, and therefore not harming it. This ethic shift has been consistent with the public opinion based on surveys done, which show that the general public does not support killing a healthy animal, consistent with the "no-kill movement".

References

AVMA.org/resources-tools/avma-policies/free-roaming-abandoned-and-feralcats

catvets.com/public/PDFs/PositionStatements/FreeRoamning.pdf

. https://www.alleycat.org/avma-revises-free-roaming-abandoned-and-feral-cat-policy/

AVMA.org/javma-news/2016-03-01/avma-revises-policy-feral-cats-encourage-collaboration

"The Road to TNR-Examining Trap-Neuter-Return Through the Lens of our Evolving Ethics", Joseph Wolf and Joan E. Schaffer, Frontiers in Veterinary Science, January 11, 2019