Stray Cat Trap, Neuter/Spay, Release

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2 cats dumped here in -20* a couple years ago. Then, our new cat, Lila showed up with 5 kittens though she was barely old enough to have them..... Her kittens went to foster homes and Lila was fixed and lives here now, not the ideal cat for a lil one but not intolerable either. Now 2 more litters from the wild "momma" cat since then (same momma cat that I think may have given birth to Lila).

Excellent, I was loaned a trap. My neighbor trapped her, she was altered today and already back home for guess how much? Only $10!! Could you imagine being a cat out here in the wild west trying to avoid predators, survive the harsh winters, much less have kittens to feed, WOW.

So, one down, 3 more to go that I know of. Of course, a neighbor a few miles down the road said she has 8 stray and wild cats that live in her barn. We will get them fixed too!! I will have to return the trap before they are all done, but we will do it again when the animal welfare society can loan it to us out here again.

Edit, I might have to buy a damm trap to pass around this area, we have 100's of open land space here between houses, who knows how many feral cats are out here. Possibly a couple kitties dumped here years ago, now, too many fighting for their lives every day. Very sad.

 

Cats have always been a problem and probably always will be. One bad thing about living in the country is that people tend to drop off unwanted cats and dogs. I have never liked that idea of just dumping off any animal even if it is wild. It would be kinder to do away with the animal rather than just dumping it off. Also, this always brings to my mind how many people live trap coons then dump them off out in the country ("where they belong and will do nor harm"). They keep trapping and relocating but most are too dumb to realize they are trapping the same animal over and over and over. Many animals have a tremendous homing instinct and that definitely includes coons. In the meantime, those animal who they say belong here and will do no harm get shot because they don't belong here and they do damage.

Okay. Rant over.

 

Time to End Cat Colonies in Cape May

All, before you throw stones at me let me say this first: "I DON"T HATE CAT'S" "but" I do believe cats belong inside! Please let me start here with saying, I live right in the middle of the flight path of "Many" migratory birds. We have had "serious" trouble and problems with cat colonies, cat lovers, stray and ferals and it has almost came to full war with the differances of opinions. Above is an artical written by a "very well known" Birder from Maine who travels up and down the east coast birding. I could write a book on this issue because my area, neighbors and work have been dealing with this issue.
Now, contrary to what some believe, "Feral and outside cats" kill more than 2.5 billion birds annualy, some of these birds are on the endangered speciecs list. This is a FACT, and many studies have proved it.
A cat will kill no matter how well it's fed just for the sport of it! Just recently I watched a cat carrying a live squirrel across the street by the head and mamed it so it couldn't run. Then played with it till it finally died, "pure evil"!
Now, we have cat colonies all around the county and people have gotten the idea that, "if I drop off a cat, it''ll be taken care of" These colonies keep getting larger and larger. I have lived in this area on and off all my life, 50+ years, and I know of two cat colonies that "SHOULD" be long extinct by now, but they are thriving! How??? Austrailia has had many species of birds completely wiped out because of feral cats!

I had a neighbor that used to feed these cats every night about 6pm and they would come out of the wood work! I have had WW1, WW2, and WW3 with her about this!!! Especially when I used to watch cats in my own yard "sitting" under the bird feeders, waiting for a bird to get close.
So for the record, cats are not indiginous to this country, they don't belong here, They "will" kill anything for sport, in two years time one female can produce Theorectially 8000 more cats and then some, and are a complete menice for wildlife of all sorts, not just birds. Think of how fast, if there were colonies of German Sheppards they would be slaughtered off! Problem here is people don't see the devistation of what cats are doing to the enviroment. When people feed these cats in these colonies, what else are they feeding... Rats, mice, opossums, racoons, fleas, ticks, lice, mites, parasites, disease and so on!

Lastly, If you want to do the animal and the world some good, euthanize them humanly and quickly. Ok, throw em

 

You will never stop it until the mindset of the people is changed! They have self pity and think they are doing the animals a big service when all it's doing is creating a "HUGE" enviromental problem! Just in cat feces alone!

 

I only want to disagree with you because of this fact, and this came from a Veterinarian who belongs to our gun club, A cats instincts are like heroin to people, they can resist the temptation and will if they are raised around other animals. "But" sooner or later something's going to die! My aunt had a old Tom cat and he ate twice a day, she even used to cook the dam thing haddock she loved it so much. Usually once or twice a week he would come home with a "prize" for her and leave it on the back steps dead. Its difficult to watch a cat 24/7 and to their benefit, "very stealthy" but you don't know what they are killing. "my opinion" The generalization came from their instincts and can't be helped, if a cat is let loose in the wild it will almost instantly go into hunt mode. A dog on the other hand will go sit on someone's steps or go rummage through trash to eat, yes eventually the do become feral but it takes "way" more time for a dog to than a cat.
I'm not saying your cats are killers, and most likely fine but it will happen someday.