One of AVA's tiresome excuses to continue culling cats is "the need to balance the interests of cat lovers and people who do not like cats for one reason or another".
The term "cat lovers" sometimes conjures up images of a fanatic cat hoarder who would like to have the whole estate filled with cats!
However there is now an increasing number of people who "love" cats, amongst other animals, and who are concerned enough about the decades of ineffective killing of cats in response to complaints without thorough investigations and without applying humane solutions. These people self-volunteer to resolve the problems that arise from the presence of community cats in an environment of increasing human density, by reducing the cat population through sterilisation and to resolve complaints about cats by mediation for the town councils and suggesting humane solutions.
AVA fails to give due recognition to these people who are truly concerned about the problems of cats and who are doing what AVA should have been doing!
Do the right thing. Reinstate the Stray Cat Rehab Scheme.
