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Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Volusia County Lets Woman Keep Her 200 Cats

Volusia County Lets Woman Keep Her 200 Cats
WESH.com, Florida - July 11, 2006
[Excerpt]
PIERSON, Fla. -- A Volusia County woman has won the right to care for almost 200 stray and feral cats at her home, despite objections from her neighbors in Pierson.

Kristy Grant asked the Volusia County Planning Commission to designate her property an animal shelter, WESH 2 News reported.

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* State Animal Shelter Statistics
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Comprehensive Cat Management:
* Save Our Strays book by Bob Christiansen, 1998 - website no longer online as of 2012
* No Kill Advocacy Center
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Spay/Neuter:
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* Feral Cat Caretakers' Coalition - CA
* Drop traps - hard to trap cats

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* No More Homeless Pets (Best Friends) - Resource Library: Click Feral Cats, Spay/Neuter
* HSUS Feral Cat Resources - Humane Society of the United States

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* New York City Feral Cat Initiative
* Animal Protection League of New Jersey - Project TNR
* Long Island Cat Project/Animal Alliance of Long Island - NY
* Burlington County Feral Cat Initiative - NJ (website offline)
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* Project Bay Cat > Toolkit - CA
* Feral Cat Coalition of Oregon and Audubon Society of Portland
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* Hoarding of Animals Research Consortium (HARC)
* Feline Cancer Resources
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* Kitten Rescue Kitten Care Handbook
* PetAbuse.com Cruelty Database, select cat
* Shelter Medicine Information Sheets

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Volusia County Lets Woman Keep Her 200 Cats

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