Stray Cats in St. Inigoes

kwillia

kwillia

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Inkpen said:
Ya know why people feed animals?
Because they care.
Period.
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I feel the same way about people who capture strays and have them euthanized. I believe the majority of us that do this do it because we care.
 
SoMDMama82

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Cowgirl said:
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I honestly don't think a cat is better off being feral than being humanely euthanized. :shrug: Feral cats have to go through so much just to survive....I would rather trap and euthanize a feral cat than have it trying to survive...getting hit by cars, fighting for food, getting fleas and ticks, suffering from nasty oozing eye infections, suffering from cuts and scratches from fights with other wild animals....need I go on?

I don't see what the problem is with trapping feral cats and humanely euthanizing them.
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My aunt and uncle use to live on a corner of a road where people always seemed to drop off their unwanted cats. They felt bad for them, and would feed them. They had 2 small children, and rabies broke out in the area. They finally had the pound come pick them up because they were afraid for their children. (My cat was actually one of the wild kittens there).

Stray cats are a major problem everywhere. They breed like nuts! Not only that, but they can carry rabies and all sorts of other diseases. It seems awful, and I hate seeing so many cats need to be put down (but I don't want to become cat woman will 100 cats in my house either!). If people were more responsible and got their cats fixed, there wouldn't be as much as of problem.
 
mAlice

mAlice

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Inkpen said:
Nice article..
Read the opening line aloud:

"Feral cats are the offspring of stray or abandoned household pets. Raised without human contact, they quickly revert to a wild state and form colonies wherever food and shelter are available. "

Key words here: abandoned pets.
The cats did not just drop in from outter space.
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You sure do have your panties in a bunch today.
 
Cowgirl

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Inkpen said:
Nice article..
Read the opening line aloud:

"Feral cats are the offspring of stray or abandoned household pets. Raised without human contact, they quickly revert to a wild state and form colonies wherever food and shelter are available. "

Key words here: abandoned pets.
The cats did not just drop in from outter space.
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Exactly..so why should we go out of our way to protect them and make sure they are released back into the wild? They are not a 'native' species....euthanizing feral cats can be a positive thing.

And quit yelling at people to stop feeding the feral cats....you do the same thing. :rolleyes:
 
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Inkpen

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Cowgirl said:
Exactly..so why should we go out of our way to protect them and make sure they are released back into the wild? They are not a 'native' species....euthanizing feral cats can be a positive thing.

And quit yelling at people to stop feeding the feral cats....you do the same thing. :rolleyes:
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OK.. go euthanize and stay with the cats to see the whole process from trapping to transport to caging to gassing to being tossed int 55 gallon drums to being dumped in a truck and burned up.
Go see all the dogs and cats killed at shelters and feel good about being you.

...it is obvious you know nothing about feral cat mamagement, nor do you care to learn.

I dont feed ferals. Dont know where you got that idea.
 
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Inkpen

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SoMDMama82 said:
My aunt and uncle use to live on a corner of a road where people always seemed to drop off their unwanted cats. They felt bad for them, and would feed them. They had 2 small children, and rabies broke out in the area. They finally had the pound come pick them up because they were afraid for their children. (My cat was actually one of the wild kittens there).

Stray cats are a major problem everywhere. They breed like nuts! Not only that, but they can carry rabies and all sorts of other diseases. It seems awful, and I hate seeing so many cats need to be put down (but I don't want to become cat woman will 100 cats in my house either!). If people were more responsible and got their cats fixed, there wouldn't be as much as of problem.
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Yea..If people were more responsibel..
And vetted ferals have been vaccinated for rabies..one way to reduce rabies.
 
aps45819

aps45819

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Inkpen said:
I dont feed ferals. Dont know where you got that idea.
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From you

Scooter Pie was a stray cat I befriended in my neighborhood.
She was a little, solid black, pregnant cat, who wandered from house to house looking for a hand out.
I just started feeding her about 2 weeks ago to keep her near by and was able to touch her just last week.
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itsbob

itsbob

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Inkpen said:
OK.. go euthanize and stay with the cats to see the whole process from trapping to transport to caging to gassing to being tossed int 55 gallon drums to being dumped in a truck and burned up.
Go see all the dogs and cats killed at shelters and feel good about being you.

...it is obvious you know nothing about feral cat mamagement, nor do you care to learn.

I dont feed ferals. Dont know where you got that idea.
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"Feral Cat MANAGEMENT??"

Sounds like an expensive solution to a cheap problem.. so tell me, do fixed feral cats kill local wildlife any less? What do we do while we wait for all these fixed cats to die naturally? Bring the squirrels, and the chipmunks into the houst to protect them??

You can't be serious..
 
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aps45819 said:
From you
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Scooter was not a feral, I fed her when I saw her out in the yard, she was a neighborbod stray and was scheduled to be spayed Friday.
That is not feeding feral cats.. it is capturing a pregnant cat and getting it vetted with the plan to place her up for adoption.

When she finished eating, I took the food up and brought it inside.
Just left water out.

Big difference!!!
 
desertrat

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itsbob said:
"Feral Cat MANAGEMENT??"

Sounds like an expensive solution to a cheap problem.. so tell me, do fixed feral cats kill local wildlife any less? What do we do while we wait for all these fixed cats to die naturally? Bring the squirrels, and the chipmunks into the houst to protect them??

You can't be serious..
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Yep, they do it in many places. Fix and release. I don't know where the logic is in this. They don't do it with dogs. I guess because cats can take care of themselves pretty well.
 
Cowgirl

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Inkpen said:
OK.. go euthanize and stay with the cats to see the whole process from trapping to transport to caging to gassing to being tossed int 55 gallon drums to being dumped in a truck and burned up.
Go see all the dogs and cats killed at shelters and feel good about being you.

...it is obvious you know nothing about feral cat mamagement, nor do you care to learn.

I dont feed ferals. Dont know where you got that idea.
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I would not have a problem watching a feral cat be euthanized. So what if they're dumped in a 55 gallon drum and incinerated? They're already dead.....they don't care. Geesh, I don't mean to sound callous, but they are humanely euthanized. It's not like they're tortured.

And dogs and cats in the shelter is a HELLUVA lot different than feral cats. :rolleyes:
 
cattitude

cattitude

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desertrat said:
Yep, they do it in many places. Fix and release. I don't know where the logic is in this. They don't do it with dogs. I guess because cats can take care of themselves pretty well.
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Excatly. Goddard Space Flight Center is a prime example as is the Agricultural Research Center in Beltsville, Maryland. People, not knowing, what to do with kittens would dump them at the cow barns at the Ag Center which created a nice little feral population..same with GSFC. By vetting the cats and returning them, the cats took care of mice, other rodents, etc. I understand that the GSFC population is declining and most of the cats have passed on.

Although the feral cats at GSFC were fed. It was hard to stop the people from doing that.
 
Cowgirl

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Ink, I have another question.... How many thousands of dollars are spent spaying and neutering feral cats each year? I think that money could be better spent building more shelters for the friendly dogs and cats that get euthanized because there aren't enough shelters.
 
cattitude

cattitude

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aps45819 said:
At what point does a cat go from stray to feral?
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A stray would be a cat that was dumped by its owner, lost, etc. It is fairly friendly..maybe timid and has a chance at being a "nice" kitty.

A feral cat is generally born in the wild...or had been a stray/homeless cat for a long, long time and cannot be rehabilitated.

A 3 week old feral kitten would rip your hand to shreds.
 
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