{"id":774,"date":"2011-10-01T01:09:12","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T01:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/petpros\/?p=774"},"modified":"2017-03-14T04:31:26","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T04:31:26","slug":"vaccine-could-help-control-feral-cat-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/petpros\/2011\/10\/vaccine-could-help-control-feral-cat-population\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaccine Could Help Control Feral Cat Population"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-image\" style=\"float: right;\">\n<div class=\"zemanta-img zemanta-action-dragged\" style=\"margin: 1em; display: block;\">\n<div style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Gato_en_Boiro_Galicia.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"A homeless \" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/47\/Gato_en_Boiro_Galicia.jpg\/300px-Gato_en_Boiro_Galicia.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless \" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Wikipedia<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><small>Image via <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Gato_en_Boiro_Galicia.jpg\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>University of Florida\u00a0 researchers A study performed by University of Florida researchers could aid in the management of <a title=\"National Feral Cat Day\" href=\"http:\/\/www.catchannel.com\/news\/2009\/10\/14\/nationa-feral-cat-day-set-for-oct-16.aspx\">feral cat<\/a> populations.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that a single dose of the immunocontraceptive vaccine GonaCon controls fertility over multiple years in adult female cats.<\/p>\n<p>Non-profit veterinary research organization Morris Animal Foundation funded the five-year study, which was published online in August in the scientific journal Theriogenology.<\/p>\n<p>The UF researchers administered single dose vaccinations to 15 female cats and placebos to another five cats. The cats were then allowed access to a breeding male cat. All five placebo females became pregnant within seven to 28 days.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catchannel.com\/news\/2011\/09\/30\/feral-cat-vaccine-could-control-populations.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.catchannel.com\/news\/2011\/09\/30\/feral-cat-vaccine-could-control-populations.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image via Wikipedia University of Florida\u00a0 researchers A study performed by University of Florida researchers could aid in the management of feral cat populations. The researchers found that a single dose of the immunocontraceptive vaccine GonaCon controls fertility over multiple years in adult female cats. Non-profit veterinary research organization Morris Animal Foundation funded the five-year study, which was published online in August in the scientific journal Theriogenology. The UF researchers administered single dose vaccinations to 15 female cats and placebos to another five cats. The cats were then allowed access to a breeding male cat. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/petpros\/2011\/10\/vaccine-could-help-control-feral-cat-population\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterinary-marketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/petpros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/petpros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/petpros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/petpros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/petpros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/petpros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1310,"href":"https:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/petpros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/1310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/petpros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/petpros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/petpros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}