LAS CRUCES – The city will look to create a process by which unowned cats are trapped, sterilized and released back into the community as a means of reducing the flourishing local population of stray and feral felines.
While the overall goal will be to reduce the cat population over the next several years, supporters of the move see it as a more humane process than euthanasia.
On Monday, Las Cruces city councilors agreed during a work session to fast-track a resolution to start such a program rather than wait for it to be implemented as part of a larger overhaul of the city's animal control ordinance.