Posted on 10/23/2016 7:03:10 AM PDT by Silentgypsy
NEW YORK (AP) Multitudes of feral cats roam New York City's concrete jungle, and some now have a practical purpose: They're helping curb the city's rat population.
A group of volunteers trained by the NYC Feral Cat Initiative traps wild cat colonies that have become a nuisance or been threatened by construction, then spays or neuters and vaccinates them. The goal is to return them to their home territory, but some end up in areas rife with rats.
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That cat does not look entirely sane, even by cat standards ...
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>> “Yeah, it takes a pretty good cat to kill a rat.” <<
That was just a well fed kitten.
When our cat was about 8 months old, he was getting multiple rats per day. Now I think the neighborhood is running out of rats, he only seems to find about one a week.
He grabs them by the head and whips them back and forth until they either die of fright or their neck breaks. He rarely even bothers to eat them anymore.
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Cats ARE amazing predators...purpose built for what they do!
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