They are disease ridden nasty animals that will use your landscaping as litter boxes.
Thankfully, both the cats and neighbor are now gone.
But they keep varmints in line and earn their keep so to speak.
Regretfully, its not only right but necessary.
Keep them in the house and out of trouble.
Many problems can be solved by 10 year old boys with pellet guns.
There was a police station that had a huge rat problem (here in southern California). They took some feral cats, nuetered, spayed them and let them have the run of the parking lot.
No more rats.
This wouldn’t be an issue if there was a market for kitty kat fur.
Thank you Peta and your lunatron friends for destroying the fur market.
I think a tabby cat hat, or a calico coat would be just awesome!
It’s true that they are not indigenous predators, but the indigenous predators are gone from the scene. When’s the last time you spotted a mink?
Feral cats have been proven to be a big hardship on native songbirds......
I have had terrible experiences with feral cats in the politically correct city of LA. I have brought these hideous beasts to the pound, my hands and arms and covered with blood after capturing them. And then they ask me if they are pets. There are few animals worse than feral cats. And I am a cat owner who loves my own pets.
A “friend” (conservative and Christian, no less) on Facebook castigated me for simply defending the EVIL (her word) practice of declawing my feral rescue kitten in order to keep it in my home. I asked her this very question, would you rather they were destroyed? She never answered me. My kitten’s siblings very well may have been destroyed because as young as they were, they were mean.
We have a few menacing spade cats out our way.
As someone who has battled a plethora of feral cats thanks to an elderly neighborThey are disease ridden nasty animals.
Neutered or otherwise, it’s no mercy not to deal with feral cats. I’ve seen them with encrusted eyes, broken legs, and horrible, untreated wounds from cat fights.
We joke about feral cats being coyote snacks, but coyotes like to play with their food. Gruesome way to die.
There were feral cats around the house my daughter bought when we moved in. They destroyed the ventilation grates on her foundation. I couldn’t believe a cat could do that! We found their kittens in the garage when we got here. We kept the tamest one of the bunch, but even she’s a bit of a hellion though she was tiny when we found her. Spaying and declawing have calmed her down quite nicely. hehe
As long as they are killed humanely, fine. Pellet guns, drowning, or stuffing them in a sack and beating them with a shovel or hammer or whatever, are not humane ways to dispatch a cat. Regardless of what some people here believe.
The only way to stop feral cats is to stop the feral elderly ladies from feeding them!
Elderly neighbors? Maybe you should move.
I live next to a ravine in No. Cal. My cats have claws, go out, occasionally bring back lizards, rats, and rarely a bird. However they are not allowed out at night because of the coyotes. The yotes seem to have pretty much eliminated the feral cat population.