Kennedy Brooke P A, Cumming Bonny, Brown Wendy Y
AMRRIC-Animal Management in Rural and Remote Indigenous Communities, Winnellie, NT 0820, Australia.
School of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England, Armidale NSW 2353, Australia.
Animals (Basel). 2020 Apr 11;10(4):663. doi: 10.3390/ani10040663.
Pet domestic cat () populations are increasing all around the world, resulting in an increase in contact with humans and wildlife, potentially spreading zoonotic diseases and predating on wildlife. With the recently identified rise in cat populations in remote Indigenous communities in Australia, culturally appropriate cat population management strategies are required. A systematic review process was conducted to review the current global cat population management practices that are suitable for owned, free-roaming cat populations in these communities. Eight articles on in-situ field cat populations and five studies simulating computer modelled cat populations reported results of 66 population management interventions. Surgical Sterilisation (SS) was used in all socialised owned cat articles. The trap-neuter-release (TNR) method was used most frequently on unsocialised cats and gained the best results when the trap-remove (TR) method was used concurrently to adopt out unwanted social cats and euthanise ill or injured cats. The results of this review suggest that long-term TNR/SS programs supplemented with TR provide the current most ethically sound best practice, humane method of managing cat populations in remote Australian Indigenous communities. It is also recognised that no one plan will fit all, and that further research on the micro-level techniques used to deploy both TNR and TR needs to occur, and that culturally appropriate community consultation during all processes is vital in achieving a sustainable management program.
宠物家猫（）的数量在全球范围内不断增加，导致与人类和野生动物的接触增多，有可能传播人畜共患病并捕食野生动物。随着澳大利亚偏远原住民社区猫数量最近被发现有所增加，需要制定符合文化习俗的猫数量管理策略。开展了一项系统综述，以审视当前适用于这些社区中有人饲养、自由放养的猫的全球猫数量管理做法。八篇关于野外猫数量的文章和五项模拟计算机建模猫数量的研究报告了66种数量管理干预措施的结果。所有关于有人饲养的社会化猫的文章都采用了手术绝育（SS）方法。诱捕-绝育-放归（TNR）方法最常用于未社会化的猫，并且当同时采用诱捕-移除（TR）方法来收养不需要的社会化猫并对生病或受伤的猫实施安乐死时，能取得最佳效果。该综述结果表明，辅以TR的长期TNR/SS计划提供了当前最符合伦理道德的最佳实践，即管理澳大利亚偏远原住民社区猫数量的人道方法。人们还认识到，没有一个方案能适用于所有情况，需要对用于实施TNR和TR的微观层面技术进行进一步研究，并且在所有过程中进行符合文化习俗的社区协商对于实现可持续管理计划至关重要。
