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Orozco, Norma From:Romina Y <romina.yamashiro84@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, July 20, 2021 2:51 PM To:eComment Subject:Fwd: QUESTION: Virtual Town Hall for an Update On Our First 100 Days Serving Orange County’s Second District! Attachments:Stopping TNR is Inhumane AND Abandonment.jpg Hello, I would like to present the question for our Virtual Town Hall regarding the impact both in animal welfare and overall costs endured to Cypress, Huntington Beach, Rossmoor, Fountain Valley, and other Unincorporated Areas within the 2nd District Zoning utilizing OC Animal Care; who has ceased all forms of TNR (trap neuter return) programs since January of 2020. We are facing a significant hurdle on multiple fronts since the inept and indecisive changes in policy to no longer perform any TNR program, and yet not accept adult stray cats; leaving them unaltered and abandoned to colonize and reproduce at alarming rates. This creates a significant toll financially on Orange County Tax Payers, as well as creating a feline pandemic within these communities. By not accepting young/adult stray cats and not performing sustainable TNR services, we are leaving unaltered cats out at large to breed indefinitely and drastically increase our already problematic feline population. And once that stray cat has a litter of kittens (OCAC only accepts kittens and sick/injured cats), her and the litter (that could have easily been avoided through TNR) are then brought in to OC Animal Care to impact costs and labor for housing, as well as burdened on to the rescue community who are already waist deep in animals within Orange County OCAC is disregarding. Myself and a large portion of the Orange County population are alarmed by these continued actions from OC Animal Care, so much so that petitions and peaceful protests have been conducted against the facilities unchanged decision. In terms of cost, anyone with a high school diploma and a C average in basic math should be able to understand processing managing, and possibly euthanizing a mother cat and litter of 10 or more kittens is more costly than performing one simple spay and returning the animal to its original location. Additionally, by OC Animal Care not performing this service, members of the general public which lack funding and knowledge are attempting to care for these unaltered cats on their own. Just recently, a member of Orange County was found to have several stray cats on her property, which when combined with all litters accounted for 50 cats and kittens, from just one small area within Orange County. These actions by OC Animal Care were based on a 'cease and desist' letter from a small handful of activists who lack understanding of animal welfare needs on a municipal level to stop RTF (return to field). However, OC Animal Care not only ceased RTF services, but also used these cease and desist notice as an excuse to close TNR programs as well. Additionally, those same activists presented the cease and desist letter to 3 other neighboring counties; and all other counties continued their TNR programs as their legal teams are experienced laws pertaining to animal welfare; and how California Penal Code, 597s has no implications with a TNR program. To summarize: 3