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<br /> <br />Animal Services Highlights <br />Page 4 <br /> <br /> <br />2. Orange County Animal Services has developed a five year plan for managing “free <br />roaming cats” that includes several key components <br />a. Enhanced public awareness about the plight and need of cats <br />b. Encouraging responsible cat ownership (or guardianship) <br />i. Spaying and neutering as well as routine vet care <br />ii. Confinement and environmental enrichment <br />c. Collaboration with community partners to provide fosters for the offspring of <br />feral and semi-feral cats so that they may be socialized and homed as a pet <br />d. Area or neighborhood pilot projects that provide spaying and neutering and <br />rabies vaccinations <br />3. Cats are complex and challenging for our own and other communities and they <br />demanding responsible innovation in management techniques <br />a. Solutions need to reduce unnecessary euthanasia and reduce the number of cats <br />without one or more household affiliations <br />b. Solutions must be equally attentive to concerns with songbird depredation, <br />nuisance concerns, and of course, public health. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Animal Services Mission <br />Animal Services strives to meet the needs of residents by working with volunteers and other <br />partners to deliver cost-effective and integrated services for animal sheltering, animal control <br />and animal protection that ensure the health, safety and wellbeing of humans, pets and the <br />community as a whole. Addressing the problem of pet overpopulation with a proactive and <br />positive approach is an integral ingredient of the department’s mission. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Prepared by Bob Marotto, Animal Services Director