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(Granby) is a veterinarian. The other is a
citizen who raised Purebred Cats. Together, they're helping stray cats in
Granby. Anne-Marie Chassé and Lucie Jodoin have developed a project which aims
to sterilize these cats without owner to better control their population.
"We have all both the causes stray
cats heart and we find that there is not a lot of things are being done for
them", explained Tuesday Lucie Jodoin.
Their goal: sterilize 450 strays annually
and, subsequently, to facilitate the process so that those who may be adopted
are, while others, little or not accustomed to human contact, to be released in
nature.
Both partners are active already since a
few weeks. So, a couple of cats have been sterilized, they say. Some have been
placed in families or in stables. For the moment, the two instigators paid
themselves the costs of these operations amounting to a few hundred dollars. However,
in an ideal world, they would like to have financial support from the city of
Granby. The project is being investigated, confirmed on Tuesday the Director
general of the city, Michel Pinault, without however to elaborate further.
Volunteers wanted
To help them in their business, Lucie
Jodoin and Anne-Marie Chassé are looking for volunteers who would be willing to
help catch the stray cats. A few cages capture can be made available to them.
It's also an ad on Kijiji site for this purpose which has put the voice of the
is on the trail of two friends of animals.
"What we want to do, it's catching the
cats. Later, we call the SPA to tell them that we found such cat. If he is not
claimed after three days, we sterilize, we vaccinate, we put a microchip,
worming treatment is done to him and we treat him. Those who are too ill, let's
euthanize them or send them to the SPA to euthanize them. "But those who
are adoptable, we'll sell them to pay for treatment," says Ms. Chassé.
The Act sets out that it won't sell itself
not cats. This operation might be possible through a shelter veterinarian and
Lucie Jodoin wish to set up. They have already rented a room for this purpose,
but for the time being, the zoning is not adequate. Costs of $ 1,600 would be
needed to make the change request to be considered, they said. Anne-Marie
Chassé, however, is not ready to invest this amount at the moment. A local is
necessary, she said, because his Veterinary Clinic in Laval North Street is too
small and she does not want to mix his two missions.
Solution
The initiative set up by Anne-Marie Chassé
and Lucie Jodoin is akin to the CSRM (capture, sterilize, release and
maintain), a program of sterilization for cats feral, that is domestic cats
without owner returned to a semi-wilderness State put in place by the Montreal
SPCA.
The Granby vet says this technique find
more and more echoes in the municipalities. One of the best ways to control the
proliferation of stray cats is to sterilize them, believes Ms. Chassé that
attended in December last to a seminar of the order of veterinary doctors of
Quebec on the subject. Catch these cats to euthanize them is not a solution,
she said, because there are always other things to occupy the territories
orphaned.
Reached Tuesday, the Director general of
the townships SPA, Carl Girard, said see the two Granbyennes a good look.
"We'd be crazy to say no. More we sterilize cats, the better. It stops the
pyramid. There are so many stray cats in Granby', he commented, without however
being able to quantify the phenomenon. According to him, this project is
complementary to the services offered by the SPA, which was awarded the
contract for the control of animal services in Granby.
It was impossible to get comments from the
Mayor Pascal Bonin on this project.
