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Stray cat patrol: Feral felines deployed in NYC war on rats
Yahoo News ^ | October 22, 2016 | Unattributed

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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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: feralcats; kittyping; rats
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To: Daffynition

That cat does not look entirely sane, even by cat standards ...


61 posted on 10/24/2016 11:53:38 AM PDT by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: Such a nasty woman ...)
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To: Rannug; rlmorel

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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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62 posted on 10/24/2016 12:10:13 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

Cats ARE amazing predators...purpose built for what they do!


63 posted on 10/24/2016 7:32:42 PM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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