My dog Spot no longer deals with cats. 
Posted on 09/27/2009 8:17:57 AM PDT by JoeProBono
It is estimated that there are about 60 to 100 million feral cats in the United States according to recent information provided by Alley Cat Rescue. These are very high numbers but can be reduced, and should be, by trapping the cats and having them spayed or neutered.
Alley Cat Rescue also estimates there may be about 17 million people feeding about 35 million feral and stray cats in this country. Thank goodness for the people who help care for the ferals and strays. Unfortunately, there are too many people who could help decrease the feral cat population who simply do not want to be involved.
Feral cats are often found on college campuses and on military bases where students or military personnel abandon the cats when they move. It is hard to understand why anyone would feed and take care of cats or dogs and when they graduate or transfer, they just pack up and instead of making arrangements for the animals, the people move on, leaving the hapless animals to fend for themselves.
Virtually every city, whether large or small, will have colonies of feral cats around restaurant parking lots, hotels, parks and even campgrounds that are food sources.
This column has provided several articles about feral cats, so many readers already know what a feral cat is. In the event you may not know, a feral cat is described as a wild, undomesticated, cat that is not accustomed to being around people. They are not like the occasional stray cat wandering the streets, hoping for a tasty handout. A stray cat may have wandered from its yard, become lost, and is not yet afraid of people.
Don’t worry about feral cats. Worry about feral people.
My dog Spot no longer deals with cats.
“Time for Obama to appoint a feral cat czar.”
Here is a candidate, nickname Kitten.”
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I know of at least 2 organizations just in one small community near me that works on trapping and spaying and neutering the feral cats. The woman who runs one lives across the road from me. Between us we have about 25 of them at any given time.
I currently have 11, but 3 of them are spoken for and will be going to their new homes within the next week or so.
I use the same method for protection against either of them.
Ping a ling!!!!!
“Ahhhhhhh! I love free-range!”
Ummmmgh!
Sweet little Ruger 10/22
He was just being a cat. You know the old saying, "You knew darn well when you took me in that I was a snake", well it applies to cats and dogs also, they are what they are. Cats are among the best natural predators in the world, that is what they do. Sorry about your little frog friend but(well maybe not so little if he was a Bullfrog).
A few years ago, there appeared a plague of pigeons in our area. It was starting to look the “The Birds”. Over time, however, the number of feral cats increased as did the number of random piles of pigeon feathers. Now we seem to have reached a balance with only a few pigeons in the neighborhood.
We speak Winchester and Smith/Wesson here.
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