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Anonymous
Why, on those Animal Precinct shows, do they euthanize 99% of the animals they get? I know for one if I was a feral cat I'd rather live in a house with fifty other cats and walk in crap than be euthanized. Kind of defeats the point IMO.
>> Anonymous
Well, wont they just create bigger problems along the road. They start shacking and suddenly hundreds of kittykats without proper care
>> Anonymous
Cause 50 feral cats will produce a lot of shit full of parasites.
As far as my own health is concerned I do not care about cats.
>> menchi !IgWlr3a0sk
ferals can also be the typhoid mary of disease carriers. shelters don't want to take the risk, so ferals are put down when received. no chance for adoption.
this is why I keep and feed the 5 ferals I have in my front yard. a bonus of living in the country.
I also am working on humanely trapping them and getting them fixed, then re-releasing them.
>> Anonymous
Yeah, I guess that's true...but still, I can't help but feel badly when 50 cats from a home are euthanized. Living in a horrible place and then getting killed...what a sad life.
>> Anonymous
>>212101
Agreed. They should just spay/neuther them. I think a semi-feral cat colony would be fun to take care of... if I was rich.
>> Anonymous
>>212101
That's true, but part of the reason they have to juice them is because shelters are so strapped for space that they can't hold the cats until they're adopted. Most people don't want to adopt a ferral or semi-ferral either.

TNR is great if you can get funding. Of course some people would argue that it's more humane to juice a cat and let it live in the wild.
>> menchi !IgWlr3a0sk
>>212101
I completely agree. Im just relaying what my vet said when I asked about our ferals.

he said "kill them" and I said "get fucked"
>> Anonymous
>>212101
Best thing to do is to prevent it from even happening. There are laws in some states that limit people to how many cats per household and it is already strongly suggested to fix pets.
>> Anonymous
>>212309
Right... but laws don't protect against compulsive animal hoarding, which is a poorly understood psychological condition.

Besides the urge to hoard, there's the ease at which hoarders can aquire more and more animals. A quick look in the classifieds and one can find a "free to good home" add...and then there's internet classifieds. A lot of people will give their cat away to anyone without any thought. Between that and taking in strays it's really easy to get ahold of 50+ cats.
>> Anonymous
They're like fucking rats anyway. They kill indigenous species, fuck up your yard, and aren't even that friendly to people. Fucking kill them because there's nothing else they're good for.
>> Anonymous
Feral cats are not a part of nature. They didn't evolve in this ecosystem as a wild animal native to it. The entire fact that they exist is artificial, since they descend from domestic animals. Since you're an ignorant dumbshit, I'll spell it out for you: Non-native animals will almost always screw things up for native animals, whether by outcompeting them for resources or by carrying diseases that the native animals don't have an immunity to.

Plus, in the case of the cat hoarders, it's just not even safe or sanity for the hoarder. Yes, I love animals (unlike 90% of /an/, it looks like), but you have to use some rationality and realize that killing them is a better option for the big picture. Unchecked feral cat populations fuck things up for the wild, and hoarded cats fuck things up for their psychotic owner. They are unsuitable as pets, few are willing to take up room in a wildlife sanctuary with them, and it is EXPENSIVE to spay/neuter/release. If only we lived in a utopian society, they would all be fixed and then let to live out the rest of their lives in the wild without risk of reproducing... but we don't.