Sounds like the area has developed a coyote shortage.
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Better that than more Republican presidential candidates than cats!
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It’s a problem where I live. I took in a stray a few years ago. Wish I could afford to take in more, but I can’t.
It’s the fault of stupid people who abandon their pets or let their intact cats outside so they can breed indiscriminately. Too bad we can’t spay or neuter these idiots.
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And before you cat people get excited, we have three of the little bags-o-bones living here on the new spread at Atwood Whistle Stop. The one that lives outdoors is a "fixed" adopted stray.
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A) Unbeknownst to them, the neighborhood probably has a cat hoarder they need to track down and report to the authorities, that’s 95% of the problem right there. Ours was a middle-aged pot smoking guy, so don’t automatically assume it’s the little old lady who puts out food to keep her trash from being scattered all over the neighborhood.
B) If you do a neighborhood fundraiser or work with a local shelter for funding solutions, TNR will work amazingly well.
C) Cats are better than rats.
Good luck, we beat this problem and so can you :)
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Catch, neuter and release programs are generally paid for by the city or county as a public health program.
If you just remove the animals a new group will move in to their former territory. You need to keep them there to hold the territory from new cats moving in ... but you can keep them from reproducing. Once neutered they fight less, less mating calls, spraying etc.
TNR is the worst policy ever. We had a colony around the office I used to work at. The people in the office across the street would feed them. Then that office went out of business; no one to feed the cats. Then someone started showing up, she’d drive up, put piles of cat food in the middle of the parking lot and sidewalks and leave. My boss confronted her one day and she told him they were TNRed. He showed her the fleas that were jumping on and off of him just from walking through the parking lot. The front door area smelled like fresh cat spray every morning. Sometimes adults need to make difficult decisions.
The best solution is to live trap, get someone to neuter cheaply, then release the cats where they were captured. This keeps the niche full of cats for a while, so other cats don’t move in to take their place. And eventually the cats die off due to natural causes.
A very effective technique for a cat roundup is to get a female in heat, which will bring a herd of un-neutered males around for live capture.