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There are good ways to deal with feral cats problems. Hunting them is not one of them, Joanna Reen, the director of Licking County TNR, writes.
While the number of feral cats in the county is hard to gauge, Fix Erie, a partnership between the A.N.N.A. Shelter and the Erie Animal Network, estimates the number to be in the thousands.
Many labor long hours in feral cat “trap, neuter, and release” programs attempting to manage the ballooning feral cat population. When one cat, named Hunt, was recently trapped, rescuers were ...
A feral cat with a tipped ear, indicating it was neutered in a trap-neuter-return program. A feral cat or a stray cat is an unowned domestic cat (Felis catus) that lives outdoors and avoids human contact; it does not allow itself to be handled or touched, and usually remains hidden from humans.
The Working Cats Program in Los Angeles, California, created by animal activist Melya Kaplan in 1999, is a green program that relocates sterilized and vaccinated feral cats to residences or businesses with large rat populations. The program provides a useful role in society for feral cats, who would
European explorers and settlers brought cats on their ships and the presence of feral cats was recorded from the latter decades of the 19th century. [39] It is estimated that feral cats have been responsible for the extinction of six endemic bird species and over 70 localised subspecies as well as depleting bird and lizard species. [40] [41]