Human Attitudes and Beliefs Regarding Free-Roaming CatsĮmploying structural equation models to analyze survey results from their case study from Bulwell, England, McDonald et al. Compiling the resulting articles, three distinct (but also, at times, overlapping) themes emerged: (1) human attitudes and beliefs regarding the management of free-roaming cats, (2) the effectiveness of TNVR as a management tool, and (3) the behavior and welfare of free-roaming cats. Ten years following the publication of Robertson's review, when this Research Topic was first conceived, we called on contributors representing a broad range of disciplines from across the globe to submit their latest research investigating various aspects of TNVR. Promoting such a policy appears to ignore the potential for effective TNVR activities and fails to account for public sentiment in favor of a more compassionate approach. However, there is some evidence that in countries where free-roaming cats are thought to pose a substantial threat to native species, lethal culling, and perhaps even the complete extermination, of free-roaming cats is being seriously contemplated as a matter of national policy ( 2, 3). In the intervening period, advocacy of TNVR has remained strong particularly, but not exclusively, among local, national, and international animal welfare non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and in developed countries. Although in some local circumstances the available data “support the success of TNR in reducing cat populations,” argued Robertson, “to have a large impact it will have to be adopted on a far greater scale than it is currently practiced” ( 1). In “A review of feral cat control,” published in the Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery in 2008, Sheilah Robertson recognized that there was a clear, evolutionary trend in global thinking and advocacy about free-roaming cat management, moving away from lethal methods toward trap-neuter-vaccinate-return (TNVR).

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