![]() ![]() She added the program eventually became effective in preventing hazardous situations, like the fumigation, for animals living on campus. “There were scores of (cat) bodies under the building,” Bryant said.īryant said UCLA Facilities Management cooperated with the program by providing details of facility infrastructure, and student and faculty volunteers managed daily feedings. She added they were often subjects of cruelty, and has encountered cats that have been spray painted.īryant said she felt motivated to start the program after the UCLA School of Law fumigated the building, poisoning and killing about 30 cats. The cats are either adopted or returned to where they were found.īryant said the cats were safety hazards because they would walk on surrounding roads and sometimes cause car accidents. The organizers locate new cats on campus, bait them with tuna into cages and take them to a veterinarian to be spayed or neutered. The management program is based on the trap-neuter-return method, or TNR, Bryant said. Lyday said he manages water and dry food distribution three to four times a week to each of the three on-campus feeding sites and occasionally recruits new volunteer members. She said there were about 350 cats living on campus at the program’s inception, based on veterinarian records from that year. Taimie Bryant, a professor in the UCLA School of Law, was one of the founding members of the cat management program in 1989. ![]() “That’s the only cat we know we’re feeding that a student would even be likely to see.” “(The Powell Cat) has a big fan club,” said Dennis Lyday, student affairs officer. ![]() The program, established in 1989 to control the feral cat population on campus, has since reduced the stray cat population on campus from 350 cats in the 1980s to about 10 today. A black cat has stalked the grounds of Powell Library since last summer but continues to ignore the UCLA cat management program’s tuna bait. ![]()
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