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The State of NJ has a program for people on public assistance to get their cats done for $10. Here is the link to the info http://www.state.nj.us/health/cd/izdp/spayneut.shtml
This program is funded by the "I am animal friendly" license plates.
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Anyone know if this is true?
"According to a Tweet from @HobokenRENews yesterday Trader Joe?s is not coming to Hoboken but will be literally next door in neighboring Jersey City. Their Tweet yesterday stated: ?See the new high-rise residential building going up on Jersey Ave and 17th Street as you leave #Hoboken. Trader Joe?s in the base baby!?? http://theboken.com/hoboken-headlines ... y-city-across-the-tracks/
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Kudos to Jersey City Health Dept for getting an ASPCA grant to cover the cost of the distemper shots! Animal Control has definitely become proactive and forward thinking in the last 4 years. Keep it up.
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Cat adoptions tomorrow Sunday February 19 at Grace Church on Erie between 2nd ad 3rd Streets from 12:30 - 4:30pm.
A Cat in Every Home Campaign! www.companionanimaltrust.com
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I hope there will be a fair and honest investigation into this situation. No one will blame an officer for the action they took if their life was indeed in danger. But the question is was their lives truly in danger. That is all we want to know.
I wonder if we will ever know the truth. This officer used a non lethal tactic first and scared the dogs away. http://newcity.patch.com/articles/nyc ... -end-dog-attack-in-nanuet Here's a facebook page dedicated to police shooting dogs. http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Mr-P ... ot-My-Dog/131560703558002
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Cat adoptions this Sunday Feb 5th and every Sunday12:30 - 4:30 pm at Grace Church.
Come on down and meet your match! www.companionanimaltrust.com
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We have gotten many kittens and cats adopted since the fall using Grace Church as an adoption center and we are very appreciative to those who have adopted their new companion from us.
Adoptions today and "every Sunday" at Grace Church 12:30 - 4:30pm. Come on by and adopt a cat. You can also stock up for your winter reading and take advantage of the super low cost of $.50 a book at the Grace Church weekly book sale. Quote:
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Another great endorsement for cat adoptions!
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Well, we'd like to see 2 or 3 cats in every home but we won't be too greedy with just one.
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Thank you for the wonderful endorsements! The benefits of pet ownership are numerous in addition to being good for your health. They lower your blood pressure and who could not use help with that in these trying times!
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A CAT IN EVERY HOME CAMPAIGN LAUNCHES
Weekly Community Cat Adoptions Planned at Jersey City?s Grace Church Commencing January 8, 2012 12:30 ? 4:30PM (Jersey City, NJ) January 1, 2012 ? Hudson County animal welfare organizations Companion Animal Trust (CAT) and Hudson County Animal League (HCAL) are partnering in 2012 to find homes for homeless community cats through the launch of ?A CAT IN EVERY HOME? campaign. The organizations will host weekly Sunday public adoption events starting, January 8, 2012, 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm at the Parish Hall of Grace Church, located at 39 Erie Street in Downtown Jersey City at the corner of Second Street. ?We want to make it easy, friendly and convenient for the community to adopt a cat so we are bringing the kitties to the community and Grace Church is ideally located for this purpose,? said Carol McNichol, Companion Animal Trust President. CAT and HCAL are no-kill foster care organizations dedicated to saving and placing homeless animals. All cats and kittens are vaccinated and spayed or neutered. Adoption fees do apply. For further information call 201-884-9649 or email cat@companionanimaltrust.com.
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More perspective on dog bites:
http://www.amazon.com/Dogs-Bite-Ballo ... s-Dangerous/dp/1888047186 "Dogs are dangerous. And they are more dangerous to children than to adults. Not as dangerous of course, as kitchen utensils, drapery cords, five-gallon water buckets, horses, or cows. Not nearly as dangerous as playground equipment, swimming pools, skateboards, or bikes. And not remotely as dangerous as family, friends, guns, or cars. Here?s the reality. Dogs almost never kill people. A child is more likely to die choking on a marble or a balloon, and an adult is more likely to die in a bedroom slipper related accident. Your chances of being killed by a dog are roughly one in 18 million. You are twice as likely to win a super lotto jackpot on a single ticket than be killed by a dog. You are five times as likely to be killed by a bolt of lightning than be killed by a dog. Because it is so extraordinary, lightning is often regarded as a universal clich? for an Act of God. Dog-attack deaths are even more extraordinary?five times more extraordinary. The supposed epidemic numbers of dog bites splashed across the media are absurdly inflated by dubious research and by counting bites that don?t actually hurt anyone. Even when dogs do injure people, the vast majority of injuries are at the Band-Aid level. Dogs enhance the lives of millions more people than even the most inflated estimates of dog-bite victims. Search-and-rescue and cancer-detecting dogs save significant numbers of human lives, and assistance dogs enormously improve the quality of many more. Infants who live with dogs have fewer allergies. People with dogs have less cardiovascular disease, better heart attack survival, and fewer backaches, headaches, and flu symptoms. Petting your dog lowers stress and people who live with dogs just plain feel better than people who don?t. Yet lawmakers, litigators, and insurers press for less dog ownership. This must stop. We must maintain perspective. Yes, dogs bite. But even party balloons and bedroom slippers are more dangerous. ?A tour-de-force examination of dog bites. Among other persuasive appeals for sanity, Janis Bradley has outed ?lumping?: the erroneous connection between kitchen-injury level bites and maiming or fatal dog attacks. She dares to be rational. Her rationality will?hopefully?raise the level of discussion in a topic mired in hysteria. Why do we get so excited about this particular class of injury? Enter the irrational. Human brains are organs that evolved for a single over-arching purpose: to maximize the representation of genes possessed by an individual brain?s owner in subsequent generations. We evolved in a different environment than the one we currently inhabit, however. Because of this, we are genetically predisposed to learn to fear animals with pointy teeth much more than to fear, say, hurtling along in hunks of metal at sixty-five miles per hour. Our brains are also not reliable truth detection devices. Any instances of truth detection are lucky by-products of selection for reproductive success. Scientific method was developed because of the chronic, abysmal failure of our brains to dope out reality, coupled with a fascination to know truth. Our intuitions are flat-footed much of the time. Stephen Jay Gould once mused, ?the invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning." If one searches the backgrounds of that small minority of dogs that kill people, lo and behold, many of them will have previously engaged in species-normal ritualized aggression: growls, snarls and kitchen-injury or less level bites in predictable contexts. This then becomes the foundation for the faulty causal leap, a slippery slope argument that says: if a dog is growly around his food dish, he will someday seriously hurt or kill someone. What is omitted is that a significant percentage of all dogs engage in species-normal ritualized aggression and the overwhelming majority will never hurt, much less kill, anyone. A sign
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The National Canine Research Council publishes, underwrites, and reprints accurate, documented, reliable research to promote a better understanding of our relationship with dogs.
http://nationalcanineresearchcouncil.com/ On breed specific legislation: "For example, in order to prevent a single hospitalization resulting from a dog bite, the authors calculate that a city or town would have to ban more than 100,000 dogs of a targeted breed. To prevent a second hospitalization, double that number." See link below: http://nationalcanineresearchcouncil. ... ilable%20in%20JAVMA-2.pdf "[in Miami Dade County FL] Two decades of breed specific legislation has produced no positive results." See link below: http://nationalcanineresearchcouncil. ... d_files/tinymce/miami_fnl[1].pdf Lastly, the "Pitbull Placebo: the Media, Myths and Politics of Cannine Aggression" is very informative and can be downloaded free at http://nationalcanineresearchcouncil. ... Bull_Placebo_download.pdf
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You are right animal abuse, cruelty, neglect, abandonment etc are all crimes. But these are crimes that fall under the jurisdication of animal control not the police. Many believe it should fall under the police but it does not.
The State of NJ certifies and trains people to become Animal Control Officers AND Animal Cruelty Investigators. The police have no such training. The New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is a State chartered agency to investigate and prosecute such acts. Again it is not the local police dept. @Heights, your comments are shallow and pitiful. There people trying to address the feral cat population including myself through the Neighborhood Feral Cat Initiative which has the support of the City. We have made great progress in three years in training the community how to do Trap Neuter Return while providing the funding the pay for the spaying and neutering of these cats. I invite you to attend one of our workshops next Spring. They are free. Check www.neighborhoodferalcat.org for the dates. Quote:
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This is an excellent choice and as one who lives in Ward F I look forward to working with Michele Massey.
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Please be sure to report this to JC the Animal Control department as I believe this would fall in their jurisdication not that of the police.
I assume these are friendly and not feral cats. Right?
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Who at the shelter gave permission and allowed this woman to take the dogs? The dogs had been there for a while and all staff knew they were there under court order. What if the dog(s) killed someone while out for the two days?
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Take advantage of the end of summer special price promotion and adopt a cuddly, adorable kitten for the reduced adoption price of just $75 (original fee $100). Hosted by Companion Animal Trust and Karma Cat + Zen Dog Rescue Society, the Kitten Bonanza 2011 Part II event will take place on Sunday, August 21 from 11am-4pm at City Hall Plaza weather permitting (280 Grove St. Jersey City, near PATH).
For more information, call 201 884 9649 or email CompanionAnimalTrust@yahoo.com
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http://www.examiner.com/american-pit- ... ng-what-really-happened-1
Pacifica dog mauling?what really happened?
By Cindy Marabito, American Pit Bull Examiner
..Greg Napora returned home for lunch yesterday in Pacifica, California to find his wife, Darla, lying dead on the floor and their male pit bull standing over her. Darla was six months pregnant.
According to ?reports?, he put the male dog in the backyard and called authorities. When the police arrived, Gunner got out and was immediately shot and killed by the police officers.
Studying the quickly banged out articles from the San Jose Mercury News, San Francisco Chronicle and Huffington Post, certain facts seemed missing from the coverage. Reuters reported the woman as a San Francisco native and one story featured a ridiculous photo of a yawning pit bull on a city street.
Had the media that dived into the frenzy done a bit more investigating, they might have discovered the real truth behind Darla?s death.
According to residents of the Napora neighborhood, the dog did not maul Darla Napora, ?just found out that the woman fell off a ladder and hit her head...husband came home found the dog standing over her...he put the dog out side....it got loose and cops shot the dog...thinking that it had mauled the lady. The dog had blood on it's body because he was trying to nudge her to make her move....?
Darla?s father, Doug Robinson was quoted as saying, ?Lets wait for the autopsy I talked to the police and will wait for the professionals to make a decision I have been a police officer and a detective for several years. This is my daughter and I will wait for the evidence.?
The people who covered this story need to re-examine the facts. Hopefully, an autopsy will be performed and answer the many questions left gaping and open in the articles. If discovered Gunner was innocent and pawing his mom to ?wake up?, the dog is still dead.
The female pit bull, guilty of nothing, was sent to Peninsula Humane Society, also the county dog pound. The facility?s history with pit bull breeds is not very hopeful, so her chances of being saved are probably slim to none.
The death of a pregnant woman is a tragedy too horrible to imagine. People immediately jumped on the pit bull hate train with remarks like, ?pit bulls should be terminated FOREVER,? ?exterminate that nasty breed once and for all,? and from a wildlife volunteer, ?these are not dogs?they are a different category of beast? pulled from SF Chronicle commentary.
Until the coroner?s report is disclosed, no one will know the whole story. Hopefully, the report will convey exactly what happened yesterday at the Napora household.
Sadly, with this kind of media coverage, everyone suffers. Pit bulls are sitting in death row shelters waiting to die by the millions as it is. With coverage like these stories, millions more will die needlessly.
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The Neighborhood Feral Cat Initiative is giving a TNR workshop today in JC. Call 201 884 9649 before 10am to register.
In response to this thread I quote Alley Cat Allies: "Outdoor cats have existed alongside humans for 10,000 years. They are not a new phenomenon. In fact, it wasn?t until the 1940s?and the invention of cat litter?that "indoors only" for cats was even a concept.4 Feral cats don?t even belong indoors?they are not socialized to people, so they can?t be pets. What people don?t understand about feral cats is that there will always be feral and stray cats living and thriving in every landscape, from the inner city to farmland. When people advocate for no more cats outdoors, they are actually supporting the failed policies for stray and feral cats currently in place, where cats are caught and killed. As animal advocates, we want what?s in the best interest of all animals, including birds. That means taking a hard look at what the major threats to species are and evaluating what we as humans can do to save the environment and to change the way our choices impact our environment. It also means protecting animals?all animals?from being killed. " http://www.alleycat.org/Page.aspx?pid=894 http://www.alleycat.org/Page.aspx?pid=324 http://www.alleycat.org/Page.aspx?pid=937 http://www.alleycat.org/Document.Doc?id=30 About 90 millions cats are living on the streets of the US. Only 2% are spayed or neutered. Do the math. Our very own shelter here in Jersey City turns aways dozens of people each week who need to surrender their cats for one reason or another. Some of those cats will end up (not neutered or spayed) on our streets for people like me and others to remove and rehome or trap and release.
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I would imagine that the Port Authority has plenty of cameras pointed at the Tunnel traffic. There has to be footage of the car that dumped the dog and perhaps the license plate.
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Scratching and clawing Local group tries to address JC?s feral cat problem by E. Assata Wright Reporter staff writer Hudson Reporter 07.31.11 - 12:05 am Every trash collection night they?re out there, alley cats digging and pawing at garbage bags in search of food. Some residents consider these cats a public nuisance. Others take pity on them, leaving food and water in bowls on the street. But a growing number of animal welfare activists argue that neither response offers a long-term solution to the problem of feral and free-roaming cats. Approximately one in every six households in Jersey City is feeding, or helping to feed, homeless cats in the city, one local activist said. _____________ ?They actually have a van called the Neuter Scooter that comes around to pick up the cats.? ? Carol McNichol ____________ The best long-term solution, some say, is to have as many alley cats spayed and neutered as possible so that their populations can dwindle over time. It?s a proactive solution that trained residents can use to cut the number of cats living on their streets. But this strategy has caused controversy in some towns where it has been promoted. Tens of thousands ?There are tens of thousands of cats living on the streets of Jersey City,? said Carol McNichol, founder and president of Companion Animal Trust, a Jersey City-based nonprofit formed to address the problem of stray cats and dogs in Hudson County. ?They?ve been living there for years, and they reproduce.? Nationally, an estimated 90 million cats are living on U.S. streets annually, said McNichol. That translates to about 44,000 cats that could be living in Jersey City alone. Two years ago Companion Animal Trust launched its Feral Cat Initiative, an annual program that trains residents how to participate in Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) efforts in their neighborhoods. Although somewhat controversial, TNR programs are gaining in popularity among many segments of the animal welfare community, largely because such programs rely on spaying and neutering rather than having the animals put to sleep. ?Some cities think that if you just trap a cat and [have it put down] that will fix the problem,? noted McNichol. ?Some cities will trap feral cats, take them to a shelter, and have them killed if they aren?t adopted quickly.? Those programs, she added, emphasize adoption to deal with the homeless cat population. But not every cat will find a loving home. Shelters may find it easy to place kittens in homes. Cats that were socialized as kittens and had human contact before they became homeless may also find it easy to be adopted. However, feral cats ? those that were never socialized as kittens ? are unlikely to be adopted by families and are much more likely to be put to sleep. McNichol said that adoption-based programs also don?t help to alleviate the numbers of cats living on the street long-term. ?Cats are territorial. So if you remove every cat in a territory, other cats will come in and take over the territory. You never can get rid of all the cats. And all you need is a couple cats reproducing for a cat colony to [grow again],? she said. By implementing a TNR program instead, cats within a colony are trapped, neutered/spayed, then returned to their territory. They continue to maintain their territory ? but are unable to mate with one another. Over time, the street cat population is significantly reduced. Some advocate euthanasia While promoted as an effective ?no-kill? feral cat management strategy by many animal welfare groups, conservation organizations and the public health community have not been won over. Conservationists have argued that feral cats prey on endangered wildlife and their fecal waste can degrade water quality, thus impacting human health. In addition, feral cats often carry diseases that can be spread to domesticated cats and other animals. These groups argue that feral cats can, and should, be humanely put down to avoid these wider health problems. Fostering the feral Through the Feral Cat Initiative, McNichol and Companion Animal Trust have set a goal of trapping and neutering/spaying 400 to 500 cats each year across Hudson County. Most of the group?s work takes place in Jersey City, Bayonne, and Union City ? the cities with the highest street cat populations. Most residents learn about the program through word of mouth and referrals from the Liberty Humane Society, Jersey City?s animal shelter, McNichol said. Through the initiative, trained residents have been given traps. Tuna, mackerel, and other types of fish are used as bait to lure cats. Residents are then asked to ?shelter? the cat for a few days until an appointment can be made for its spaying or neutering. Companion Animal Trust has an arrangement with People for Animals, an animal clinic in Hillside that performs low-cost neutering for $65 and spaying for $70. ?They actually have a van called the Neuter Scooter that comes around to pick up the cats,? McNichol joked. During their visit to the vet, the animals are also vaccinated against rabies and have one ear clipped slightly to identify them as cats that have been through the TNR program. After the operation, the resident is then asked to house the animal for several more days while the cat recovers from the surgery. After recover, the animal is returned back into its colony territory. ?The cat never leaves the trap,? McNichol said, adding that residents are trained in how to feed the cat and clean the trap during the shelter period before and after surgery. Companion Animal Trust has received grants ranging in size from $1,000 to $20,000 to help pay for the cost of the surgeries. The residents who trap and shelter the animals are asked to contribute a $10 copay per cat. Companion Animal Trust will hold three more TNR training programs this year. The next training workshop will be held on Saturday, Aug. 13. Anyone interested in participating in one of the upcoming sessions is encouraged to call (201) 884-9649. E-mail E. Assata Wright at awright@hudsonreporter.com. Copyright 2011 Hudson Reporter. All rights reserved.
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Oh. So glad there is a happy ending to this for everyone involved.
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I believe Liberty Humane Society is paid to do animal control for Jersey City after hours during the week and on weekends. State regulations mandate 24/7 animal control.
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Thanks Robin for looking into this.
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