Amber Marshall on Spay and Neuter and Trap Neuter Return

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“Because I'm also a big advocate for not only spay and neuter, but the fact that some animals don't want to be house pets. And I think there's a lot of people that think or believe that, oh, if I go and rescue this cat that's been, you know, loose for five years of its life and bring it into my home, it's going to be much happier. But I believe that's not the case. I think that if a cat's been loose on its own for five years, the best thing you can do for that animal is to go in and humanely spay or neuter that animal and set it back out because now it's not populating. It's just continuing to live the life that it is known.”

Amber’s view on The Vacuum Effect

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“So my ideas on rescuing and that sort of thing are, the animal has to be in distress, in my opinion. And if it's not, then I believe in the going in spaying and neutering, vaccines too, and then letting them carry on their life. Because the problem with removing all these animals too, is you just make room for more animals to populate. . . [E]ach animal has their territory, they have their space. So when you remove them from that space, that allows somebody else to move in and thrive, because obviously, that animal was thriving there, which is why they were reproducing so much. So now that space that's probably plentiful with a warm spot to sleep, food and water is now available, there's free real estate there, somebody else can move in and start doing the same thing. But by going in and sterilizing the animals, and I hate that word, because it sounds so crude, I guess. But by going in and preventing them from reproducing, they still maintain that territory; they don't allow another animal to move in and start taking over. But they can live out their life, just the way that they were living before happy and content. So that's my, my take on it and everybody sees it differently and that's fine.”

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