Be kind to feral cats...
Back when I worked on Film studio lots, I saw lots of feral cats on the Warner Brothers lot. Somebody told me that a few years earlier they had trapped and caged all the feral cats and took them to an animal shelter. In less than a week the studio was over run with rats (The Los Angeles River runs right next to the Warner Brothers studio, so the river rats invaded with no predators to stop them).
The studio had to pay the shelter frees and for vaccinations in order to get all the feral cats back.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Leave them high quality food where you see them often....volunteer with catch&spay groups....if this cat has a right notched ear s/he has been sterilized.....cats are essential to reduce rat populations in urban or farm grain production areas....some cats are runaways NOT FERAL....please keep your fur companions indoors for their health and safety
GreenAtheist
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Nov 9, 2019
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If the cat is declawed and has a collar you know it's a runaway....a vet can check for a chip in the ear for reunion with the human home
That isn't working out to well for me. I've started feeding the ferals because people have started dropping them in this neighborhood. A half grown tiger striped one saw me petting a local house cat and kept getting closer. Fine. But he hasn't learned to control his claws. When I pet him he reaches up and swipes my hand with them. If I don't pet him he does the same. He constantly rubs all over my legs.
Our local shelter went to a 'no kill' and there are cats everywhere. HELP!
I do not try to tame them. This little fella is just braver than the rest.
freeofgod
Level 8
Nov 9, 2019
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Cats dumped are not feral....but soon will be if they are surviving eating bugs birds rats and garbage around dumpsters....my 7 year old Kiti still hooks me with her razor sharp claws if I interrupt her grooming....that half grown little fella is 6-9 months old and could be rescued to a good home or respite care giver....some shelters organize foster care homes which are in effect giving shelter workers a rest from attending to that fostered cat
I got the 9 that lived near my backyard TNRed. Most got friendly over the years until the neighbors rotwieler killed 7 of them. They had gotten so used to my dog and humans, that they were not as skittish as they should have been. I just noticed a new feral sitting in the yard the other day, so it starts again.
glennlab
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Nov 9, 2019
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Need angry emoji for this.
I used to help care for a colony. They would watch me from a distance as I left food and fresh water. We managed to TNR trap, neuter, release almost all of them.
MizJ
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Nov 9, 2019
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