Port Orange, FL - The TNR program in Port Orange is back in business after the City Council approved an amendment to the Code of Ordinances. The amendment states that only registered volunteers can provide food, water, shelter, or any other sustenance. They also approved a contract with Halifax Humane Society for spay and neuter services that will expire on September 30,2021.
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Assistant City Manager Alan Rosen was tasked with gathering the information and presenting it to City Council. While the ordinance itself does not go in effect for 90 days, cat colony caretakers can get registered under the amendment immediately. "They would work with the police department to get registered, get the approval or signature. If they have a colony on land that they don't own, which was the same in the old program. We are ready, the information is out there, we're ready to sign people up."
Rosen talked a little about funding for the TNR program, which, in part, comes from pet licensing in the city of Port Orange. He reminds residents who are pet owners to get their pets licensed because it's the law and to support the TNR program.
Other parts of the new TNR program include a cat colony count and a class to learn how to care for the cats properly. "We think that there's probably a lot of value in being educated on how to properly care for the cats and being provided information on what resources are available, to how the program's supposed to run, what's required of them, how to capture a cat, how to feed a cat so they will be required to take that class."
