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Dear Outdoor Cat Owners/FeralCat Supporters, Does the photo above sicken you? I’m allergic to cats, but in my lifetime I’ve rescued five of them. The last one, who took up residence under my house on a frigid January afternoon, is now a friend’s happy, healthy indoor cat. Is it the fault of the cats?
Thus the decision was made to kill 3,600 Barreds, and it’s hard to fault the inescapable logic of doing so, as one Audubon Society director expressed it: On the one hand, killing thousands of owls is completely unacceptable. Other animal control issues that involve mass killing make for easier decisions, according to Peter P.
He wrote a column , not for Audubon, but for the Orlando Sentinal , in which he advocated the killing of feralcats instead of the use of trap-neuter-release. It has also apparently been edited by the newspaper since it was originally published to make it more palatable for the crazy cat people.).
On 14 March, 2013, the Orlando Sentinel published an opinion piece by Ted Williams under the headline “Trap, neuter, return programs make feral-cat problem worse.” Then he gave a couple of alternative solutions to the feralcat problem: There are two effective, humane alternatives to the cat hell of TNR.
When taking the issue to simplest common denominator, spaying/neutering is essentially exercising human dominance over non-human animals. But my stance is also categorized under Gray Matters because, in my perfect world, we wouldn't be spaying or neutering anybody. And this is one of them. But who cares about me?
Shorter Steve Dale : Hey, birders, agree with me that feralcats should be left in the wild where they will kill birds. Oh, and could you volunteer to help maintain feralcat colonies? Trap-Neuter-Release is a failure and leads to misery for cats and death for birds and other wild creatures.
As anyone who follows this blog knows, outdoor cats are a veritable holocaust for wild birds, small mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and even insects. Almost every single outdoor pet cat, feralcat, or stray kills other animals , no matter how well fed the cat is through other sources.
The other day, Minneapolis, Minnesota passed a feralcat ordinance. So I put together a “carnival” (of sorts) of FeralCat Ordinances and Issues that samples current events across the US. From the Star Tribune : Feralcats win a round at Minneapolis City Hall. What would success look like?
feralcat with a Golden-crowned Kinglet by Isaac Grant. Pity the poor souls at Alley Cat Allies. So on 16 October, which Alley Cat Allies has turned into “National FeralCat Day,” local governments got an earful. After all, someone is taking care of all those cats, right? Example one?
Quantico Military Base is really behaving cruelly when it comes to the feralcats on its base. If they are not adoptable, oh well, kill them. We do not support or promote feral animals on the base,” flatly stated Bruce Frizzell, head of the Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs office. Whiskers" or "Frisky?"
Case in point: some of my family members have become active with feralcat colony organizations. It started with donation requests for spay and neuteringcats but then quickly transferred to a trap, neuter and release organization. On the one hand, it’s better than doing nothing with a feralcat colony.
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