摘要
市民对当地选举和任命的官员报以期望,期望他们能制定、实施并评估公共政策。近年来,各地市民努力增加美国动物收容所的宠物的活释数量,这得到了动物福利倡导者、主流媒体和决策者的极大关注。城市里的动物收容所的一大挑战是管理泛滥成灾的“社区”猫即流浪猫。管理流浪猫主要有三种政策,清除法、诱捕扑杀法、绝育接种放归法(TNVR)。州政府和下级地方政府直接参与流浪猫的管理政策,因而影响其决策的重要因素是公众意见和纳税人资助,尤其是最近呼声甚高的推动“不杀生”动物收容所,即让进入收容所的90%以上的动物活着释放出来。
Citizens expect local elected and appointed officials to make, implement, and evaluate public policy.In recent years, citizen efforts to increase the number of companion animals leaving US animal shelters alive have received considerable attention from animal welfare advocates, the mainstream media, and policy makers .Among the greatest challenges for urban shelters, where the largest number of unowned, free-roaming cats are found, is how best to manage “community” cats .Three policy options have been identified:eradication;impoundment followed by lethal injection of cats not adopted (sometimes referred to as “trap-and-kill”);and trap-neuter-vaccinate-return (TNVR).Because governments at the state and local levels are directly involved in any policy- or decision? making strategy to manage community cats, public opinion and taxpayer-funded initiatives are important factors in policy making, especially in light of the recent push for “no-kill” animal shelters (i.e., where live outcomes are provided for 90% or more of the animals entering a facility) .With eradication infeasible and no evidence that “trap-and-kill” is an effective means for reducing the populations of these cats, policy makers are increasingly turning to TNVR programs .
