Dear Islip Animal Shelter,

Phil Ramos,

Pete King,

and to whom it may concern,

As someone who frequently partakes in TNR (Trap-Neuter-Return), it's exhausting to drive, sometimes over an hour, to the free programs for spay/neuter and vaccinations because my town does not have a TNR program in place, and near-by ones are limited to those town residences only.

I wrote this in hopes of convincing Islip Animal Shelter to start a TNR program for it's residences.

A good TNR program should include free or low cost spay/neuter services, vaccines, ear-tips and even better- trap rentals.

Islip Animal Shelter has before shown little to no concern over intact stray/ferals. This is simply unacceptable. This is an everyones' problem and we all must take responsibility for the problem we allowed as a whole to flourish. It's time for us as a community to tackle this free roaming cat issue, humanely, affectively, and preferrably soon. We all see stray cats running everywhere, run over in the road, diseases kittens, dying pregnant mothers.. and if we wait until it gets unmanagable, it will take much longer to see the results we could see in a month.

Kitten season is fastly approaching. How much longer do we have to tread through these seasons because we simply cannot drive so far for the programs that could be less than ten minutes from many of us

There was a meeting for Islip to hear on this matter, but it's time for them to listen to us.

Please sign & share, and let's see this get done.