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TNR has repeatedly been shown to fail to reduce free-ranging catpopulations,” the authors say (perhaps because the rate of sterilization in a discrete population has never been close to one hundred percent); and, in any event, neutered or not, feral cat lives are nasty, brutish and short.
Caring for the homeless catpopulation in Los Angeles, FixNation , offers free spay and neuter services to caregivers of community cats. The group has more than 7,000 volunteers locally who do this. To date, there are 7,076 volunteer trappers and caregivers that have embraced FixNation and contributed to these results.
There are now about 10 cats who are unsterilized, and next week the women at the site, with a little help from their friends, will start trapping again. Finally, I was asked to participate in a new TNR group in my town that started largely because of my oodles of questions and setting of policy for Project Treadstone!
Having said that, we expect wind mills to increase in number, and the specific birds that are killed by them may be a particularly sensitive group (i.e. Also, in relatively natural, or wild, lands in much of the US the feral catpopulation will be limited by a healthy wild predator population.
. … The ordinance would allow Minneapolis residents to establish cat “colonies” where abandoned and wild cats can be fed but also vaccinated, neutered and identified in an effort to humanely cut their population and control disease. Feeding bans don’t stop cats from “multiplying”; neutering does.
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