For purposes of this subchapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings.
COMMUNITY CAT. A member of the domestic species Felis Catus and shall mean a free-roaming cat who may be cared for by one or more residents of the immediate area who is/are known or unknown; a community cat may or may not be feral. Community cats are not wildlife.
COMMUNITY CAT CAREGIVER. A person who, in accordance with and pursuant to a policy of trap-neuter-return, provides care or medical care to a community cat, while not being considered the owner, harborer, controller, or keeper of a community cat.
EAR TIPPING. The removal of the distal one-quarter of a community cat's left ear, which is approximately three-eights-inch, or one centimeter, in an adult and proportionally smaller in a kitten. This procedure is performed under sterile conditions while the cat is under anesthesia, in compliance with any applicable federal or state law, and under the supervision of a licensed veterinarian. Ear tips are designed to identify a community cat as being sterilized and lawfully vaccinated for rabies.
FERAL CAT. A cat that is not socialized towards humans, is born in the wild, is the offspring of an owned cat or is a formerly owned cat that has been abandoned.
TRAP-NEUTER-RETURN. The process of humanely trapping, sterilizing, vaccinating for rabies, ear tipping, and returning community cats to their original location.
(Ord. 456, passed 8-13-2024)