[discostu]

Spoken like someone who's never been growled at my a mangie cat with foam on their mouth. Strays might or might not be pests. Ferals most definitely are. What you're feeding aaren't feral cats, just to bring you on the same page here's from dictionary.com:
Feral
1. a. Existing in a wild or untamed state.
b. Having returned to an untamed state from domestication.
2. Of or suggestive of a wild animal; savage: a feral grin.

Feral animals not only ARE pests, they can be pretty damn dangerous. Obviously you're ignorant of what makes an animal a working animal. Barn cats are working animals because they have a job to do: their job is to kill mice and rats, which carry diseases that could be bad for other animals in the barn. One might grow attached to your working animals, much as one might grow attached to your employee's. But you still have to remember that they have a job to do and when they can't do that job anymore you have to let them go. That might involve retiring them to be pets, or it might mean putting the to sleep.

You're still showing specists preferences. Monkeys and rabbits are also sometimes kept as pets. And of course cats are amung the LONG list of animals that are occasionally used in the lab.

[Sungirl]

You're wrong. I feed ferals....and they aren't PESTS to me..in fact some people like them around their stores.

Feral animals not only ARE pests, they can be pretty damn dangerous.

NNnnnnnnnnooooooooo REALLY???? I know what a domesticated dog can do to you and I know what a cat can do...all animals can put you in the hospital. Even people.

You're still showing specists preferences. Monkeys and rabbits are also sometimes kept as pets. And of course cats are amung the LONG list of animals that are occasionally used in the lab

That is why I said it was a PHRASE. LOL!