View Presentation - The Canadian Federation of Humane Societies

Cats Count in
Canada:
A National Stage
for a
Local Issue
What we will talk about together today
 Cats Count in Canada background
 National Agenda
 Capacity for Care Pilot Program
 Accessible Spay/Neuter
 Elevating the Status of Cats
 Research
Cats in Count in Canada is the result of a ground
breaking, multi-stakeholder research project on
cats in Canadian communities including;
Recommendations
Stakeholder Recommendations
• Accessible Spay/Neuter
• Public Education – responsible pet
ownership and increase the value of cats
• Legislation and adequate enforcement
Report Recommendations
• CFHS provides 27 recommendations in each key
research area based on the results and literature
Provincial Meetings
Top 4 Common Action Areas
1. Increased Collaboration and Cooperation among Stakeholders
including
• Leadership
• Professionalism (including standards and data)
• stronger alignment across groups with common messaging
• Formalizing relationships
• Common Strategy
2. Universal, accessible s/n
• Affordable vet services
• Mobile clinics
• High volume
Top 4 Common Action Areas
3. Relationship building with veterinarians and with municipalities
• Case for cat overpopulation
• Presentations to council
4. Increase the value of cats;
• Education
• Festivals
• media
National Strategy
Shelter Level: Capacity for Care, tools to reduce euthanasia, tools to
increase flow through, tools for SNR
Accessible Spay/Neuter: access spay/neuter report and tool kit,
advocating with politicians and stakeholders
Public education: cats need a publicist!
Community Support :
advocating for tools and resources
for local responses to cat issues.
Capacity for Care
Accessible
Spay/Neuter
We would like to thank the following individuals
and organizations for their contributions:
AASAO; Airport Animal Hospital, Regina SK; Alberta
Animal Services; Alberta Spay-Neuter Task Force;
ASPCA; BC SPCA; Toronto Animal Services / Toronto
Street Cats; Calgary Humane Society; PetSmart
Charities; City of Ottawa Spay/Neuter Clinic; City of
Regina; Canadian Veterinary Medical Association;
Edmonton Humane Society; Nova Scotia SPCA;
Fredericton SPCA; Guelph Humane Society; Humane
Alliance; Kitchener-Waterloo Humane Society; Meow
Foundation; Montreal SPCA; Newfoundland Department
of Natural Resources; Prince Edward Island Humane
Society, Saskatoon SPCA; SpayAid PEI; Spay Day HRM;
University of Guelph Library; Winnipeg Humane Society.
2017 Research Project
THANK YOU!!!
THANK YOU!!!
For copies of the reports visit www.cfhs.ca
To find out if Just for Cats is coming to a
theatre near you visit www.justforcats.ca
To contact me: barbara@cfhs.ca