[mmercier0921]

My mother runs a cat shelter. She takes trapped feral cats. We cage them, they are called the rubber hand ones. She uses a rubber hand on a stick to get them used to people.

In my experience only the young kitens can be reasonably made non dangerous. They are so cute and fierce. The full grown are dangerous scary, nonretrievable. Ever.

My mother usually has them neutered, clips an ear, and returns them to the wild.

Anyone who thinks a mere feral house cat aint dangerous never tried to handle one. Even the kittens are more scary than a wasp. I took 7 sutures and a severed vein on the arm trying to put one into a carrier. I would just shoot them, but mom made me understand that neutering and re-release is a better method of diminishing their numbers than extermination attempts.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“ I would just shoot them, but mom made me understand that neutering and re-release is a better method of diminishing their numbers than extermination attempts.”

I’d shoot. Problem solved instantly.Why waste time and money neutering them and clipping ears.

BTW, same treatment for feral attorneys!

[5th MEB]

When I lived in the high desert I always had to deal with feral cats, they are mean bastards.

People would just dump their unwanted kitty up there and tell themselves “it will be OK, cats can hunt and live like that”.

They are right; the ones that survive and breed tend towards the larger and meaner side, a 25 to 40 pound feral cat is nothing to mess with without a 12 gauge shotgun and 00 ought shot.