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Originally Posted by twinmommy
I'm curious, does Ile Perrot have a worse reputation than your average suburb?
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Ile Perrot was a more rural area until a few years back when it started growing. It is now 1/2 suburban, but with a rural attitude towards cats. There are a lot of feral cat colonies, and people's attitudes are that cats are a dime a dozen (just open your door and you'll find a pregnant female or a litter of newborns). Ile Perrot is now undergoing a big construction boom of condos, townhouses, row housing, and commercial shopping malls. This is destroying a good deal of forest area where numerous cats (not to mention foxes, fischers, raccoons, etc.) are being displaced. We are starting to see foxes in residential areas, and there have been reports of cats being killed by wild animals forced out of their habitats by the new construction.
Re adoption of cats/kittens for over $100 - a lot of people can't see the need for sterilization. I would say that more than half of the cats in the area are indoor-outdoor cats, many of them not sterilized. However, the newer people relocating to the area are more open to paying for a cat/kitten that is vaccinated & sterilized.
The goal of the Perdriolle Pet Fair is to try to inform the community of the need for responsible pet ownership through vaccination, sterilization, and keeping pets indoors.