I am a strong supported of CNR programs and methods Any cat that gets into a set must be released in order for me to keep using it And a released cat does not reproduce 100 % of the time I understand that farmers want cats near the buildings as rodent control But I also believe a cat out roaming the country is just killing because it is what they do

Unfortunately every feral I’ve caught has ended up with head trauma, but I still release them. What I’ve found is none ever get caught again.

lmao

what did Tatiana call it the other day

the catch , spay/neuter , release Hoax

it makes people away from the situation feel good about themselves , which was all it was ever really designed to do.

I was working on a job and we took a break at 9:30 every morning. Across the street a guy would come out and close the back window on his camper shell and drive off and about 15-20 minutes later he’d be back. I finally asked him what he did every morning. He told me he a cage trap in the back of his truck baited and would close the shell window, and go and release the cat that would be in the cage. He said he gave them a little lead pill to keep them from spreading any diseases. There was a crazy cat lady in that neighborhood and they were everywhere till he started his relocation program. Nobody none the wiser.

Sylvester says Meow!!!

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One of the biggest problems nation wide, wildlife eating machines that compete all the other animals and can have multiple litters per year, City ordinance here does not allow the feeding of feral cats but, there are those that still do it, a town not far from here had the CNR people come in and do their thing brought back 80% of the fixed critters and let them run the town again, the town folk that did not want this took matters into their own hands90% percent were removed not to ever come back.As one CO told a group of sportsman some years ago a cat 500 yards from an inhabited building site is considered a predator and can be shot on sight. I used to do animal control here and ran into big problems with being able to deal with our feral cat problem, long story, it led me to end working with the town for all animal control issues.The same people still break the ordinance feed the cats, nothing done to stop it. Now the towns people do their own animal control alot less feral cats roaming the town. According to everything I could research here in Mn there is no law that gives the feral cat any type of protection.

I just heard about this yesterday from a co-worker. He has an acreage and a big tom comes around and has actually attacked and bit him in the past. His girlfriend is apparently an “animal lover” and got ahold of someone to catch and neuter this thing. He’s going along with it instead of putting a bullet in it.

These comments probably wouldn't go over very big if the word cat was replaced with dog.

Dogs can be shot and/or owner ticketed for harassing/killing wildlife.

Same laws should apply and be enforced with cats.

I don't let my dogs run loose at home, they are under my control.

The one redeeming quality of a coyote is that they help reduce the population of feral cats and they do not care if they are neutered or not!

I have a neighbor that is a crazy cat lady. No telling how many thousands of $$$s she has spent catching and neutering cats. She is a nice lady but can not see the forest for the trees. She had coyotes killing her chickens, actually saw them in the act but would not let me trap them because I might catch one of her 20+ neutered free range cats. Maybe when the coyotes clean out the chickens they will thin out the cats.

I have to agree with s snow! Treat Cats just like dogs

It would be interesting to know how much money (their own personal) is donated by the feral cat lovers to these spay and neuter programs?

I know how much I'd give.

in WI dogs are licensed in every county and enjoy special treatment because of it.

cats are not licensed in all but a very few jurisdictions like Milwaukee county.

feral cats have zero protection as such unlicensed un-named invasive species

we have a term for feral cats
"not named unprotected species" like the Harry Potter character "he who shall not be named"

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Millions

I looked up one such charity and they had over 350K recorded.

they are selling a way for a person who is irrational to buy endorphins and feel better about themselves for a day or a few days.

for just the price of a cup off coffee a day you can make a difference**

I have a black mouth cur and a heeler that are outside dogs. I have the wireless fence collars on them so they stay around the house. For some reason people from town think this is a good area to dump their cats with kittens out near my house. It doesn't bode well for the felines. They do not get a free pass here.

I was asked to check out a town park that cat people turned into a sanctuary, it was also on a beach that supported endangered piping plovers thus the push from the Feds to "protect" them.While they weren't thrilled that they would be euthanized, they would go along with it, secretly.....

Plenty of cats....and plenty of walkers, dog walkers baby pushers, beach goers, constantly, into the late evening hours. I refused to consider it unless they closed the park, and they couldn't do that. As far as I know the cats are still there and no other pressure about the birds.

BANG, BANG, BANG. !!!!

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