To help preserve the African Wildcat, Alley Cat Rescue is urging all South African farmers to sterilize their domestic cats, and hopes that the veterinary community there will facilitate this by making the process as convenient and affordable as possible for barn cats.
Alley Cat Rescue has been involved with the protection of the African wildcat for many years, and now has a growing, hands-on program called the AWC Conservation Action Plan, through which we are working with local South African organizations, game rangers, farmers, and resorts to implement focused trap-neuter-return (TNR) of domestic cats living along game preserve borders. The intent is to maintain populations of genetically pure African wildcats within these preserves, by preventing interbreeding with domestic cats who live along these bordering territories. To date, ACR has coordinated the TNR of over 13,000 domestic cats in the targeted areas.
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