01/31/2022
Friends of Community Cats- Meeting February 4th
Assistant City Manager Eric Enriquez is calling a meeting of the Animal Care Task Force for this Friday, February 4th from 3:30-4:30 at City Hall in the city chambers regarding TNR program for community cats. The Las Cruces City Council voted on January 18th to adopt a Resolution to postpone the development of an administrative program for the City’s Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) policy.
The deadline to develop an administrative program will be postponed to June 14, 2022. The additional time will enable the Animal Care Task Force, the Animal Service Center of the Mesilla Valley (ASCMV), and the City to meet and establish a budget that will pay for surgeries needed to sterilize feral cats humanely trapped in the City, and for additional human resources to be identified.
From the middle of August until early December, sterilization surgeries were performed on more than 500 feral cats by four veterinarians contracted by ASCMV. However, TNR for the public is suspended and limited to animal control officers bringing in feral cats as surgeries slots/resources are available (see November 11, 2021 notice by ASCMV director Clint Thacker.)
.https://ascmv.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Postpone-Public-TNR-Surgeries.pdf
