The women who feed feral cat colonies

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They usually don't just feed them, they trap, neuter, and release them. In my mind, they're doing a good thing.

My 80-year-old neighbor up the road does that, R2. She spends a lot of money feeding them and catches the kittens and has them spayed/neutered at the Humane Society. She also nurses the sick ones back to health and finds homes for as many of them as she can.

She's originally from the Bronx and she's a wonderful and decent person, unlike most of the assholes here in Deplorable Haven. I wish I had twenty more neighbors just like her.

My cat is a rescue from a feral cat colony I fed years ago at a parking lot in Manhattan as a volunteer for a TNR program. The focus was on trapping and spaying/neutering and if the cats weren’t truly feral to find them homes. Stray cats can breed so much that every one you can trap and fix prevents potentially hundreds more in the future. The people that just feed but don’t spay/neuter are making the problem worse.

I think anyone who takes care of cats or vulnerable animals in any way, even if it's just putting seeds out for birds, is going good work.

OP is a feral cat hater

OP, please get cancer and die. Soon.

Those women are saints

there are catch and release programs that work to spray and neuter feral cat colonies. There use volunteers to help them. The people who help get these programs stay funded are animal rights organizations, like PETA. Republicans and Cops often attack these organizations.

I am on the Animal Rights side. Strange you are not?

We have a Feral Cat Society who are funded mainly by the public. They work hand in hand with the SPCA to trap, neuter and release. If a feral is found who seems tame enough to be adopted, it is taken by the SPCA and fostered in a home environment until it is ready to be adopted.

I have two of these cats, a beautiful brown, brindled female named Peggy, and a black male with thick longish fur, named Dax. Dax was born in a foster home, after his mother was found with a belly full. He is extremely intelligent, with a tough little face but a sweet disposition. We have reason to believe that he may have Himalayan in his genetics.

Why pick on people who are helping animals?

Why not?

I know 3 people who feed feral cats. 2 are men, one is a woman.

[quote]They usually don't just feed them, they trap, neuter, and release them.

I hope they're not using one of those home neutering kits.

I do this and most of my neighbors love it. If you bothered to research it all you would see the cat colonies are actually beneficial including keeping vermin like rats and mice at Bay.

[quote]I hope they're not using one of those home neutering kits.

It's a very simple procedure. It just involves a pair of kitchen shears and a band-aid. 😜

Also I'm not a woman.

Oop r15 not r16.

OP, I don't think this thread turned out the way you hoped it would.

HA.

[quote]I do this and most of my neighbors love it. If you bothered to research it all you would see the cat colonies are actually beneficial including keeping vermin like rats and mice at Bay.

Yep. When alley cats showed up behind my former apartment, the block's mouse problems disappeared. I started feeding them partially to encourage a ring of watchful predators to stick around between the vermin and the stairs to my apartment, partially for the good of the cats themselves. I also got a couple of great indoor pets from the first litter of kittens that was born the following summer.

They’re not getting neutered/spayed. The colonies keep growing because they’re being fed and then mate with each other, making it a never ending cycle. Maybe you have been luckier with your neighbors, but mine have all been psychos. They barely provide shelter for the cats during the winter, but keep contributing to the growing colony.

I saw ferals eating some ducklings by a pond. The poor mother was frantic,but those little fucks were ruthless. I love cats,but I detest when they are out in the wild killing everything in sight. That goes for you fucks who are all "He's an indoor outdoor cat" .Keep your fucking bird killing machines in your house.

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All DL'ers:

My grandfather became a cat feeder after my grandmother died. The cats bring him happiness and company.

A friend has two rescue cats that were/are feral and don't interact with her. They live under her bed, eat the food she puts out for them, use the litterbox but never come near her. She has given up trying to pat them and just leaves them alone. Not really sure what their quality of life is, though.

I understand the value of trap/spay/release, but introduced animals have caused so many native species to become endangered/extinct that cats outdoors in Australia is a bad idea. Much as I loved my last cat, not sure I'll get another one. He was a killing machine who could bring down his prey even while wearing bells. Then we tried a collar that beeped when he moved but that didn't work either. Several different friends have cats that stay in the house and have access to mesh areas outside so they can't kill stuff.

Feral cats are bigger and more ferocious than domestic cats. They can wreak so much damage to quendas, possums and birds, even wallabies, that they shouldn't be encouraged with food unless spaying them as well.

I don't have any familiarity with actual colonies, but know a gay couple (men) who have a tent on their deck with a heated pad for two strays. They had them fixed, as it were. When they leave town, their tenants feed the cats.

R8, did they feed and neuter you? The last part, well, why bother.

OP must be new around here.

There are legendary threads about DL’ers and their beloved cats.

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We just built a “Cattyshack” at our shelter to house the TNR community cats in a clean, safe space during their recovery. In 18 months, we’ve TNRed over 2000 cats and the people who bring in the trapped kittehs are a godsend!

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I’m impressed with the couple who are Poets Square Cats and who are huge on TikTok. They moved into a rented house and inherited a colony of feral cats that they had no knowledge of prior. They felt they had to help them and began to spade and neutering and vet care for them. They started posting the cats exploits on TikTok, especially the alpha Sad Boy and his girlfriend (possibly daughter) Lola and an eccentric cast of other cats and it blew up. People started sending them food, cat toys and other stuff to the point where they get thousands of dollars of stuff each week that they share with other shelters and colonies. The landlord was getting ready to evict them and a Patreon/Go Fund Me helped them get a down payment and buy the house. They started merch with sells out in hours and they have a publishing deal now. They seem like nice people and their dog must be a saint for putting up with a house surrounded by 20 plus cats. And they’ve become regional leaders in the care for feral cat community, trapping spading and neutering and feeding other communities.

Isn’t this something the county should take care of!? Or municipal animal control? Something? Seems like a pestilence.

Op: misogyny isn’t sexy.

[quote] They felt they had to help them and began to spade and neutering and vet care for them.

You don't "spade" a female cat, you "spay" her. "Spayed" is past tense of spay.

My Vet, before she retired, would spay and neuter feral cats, and then return them from wherever they came from. Volunteers would feed them.

“We work with the local residents and/or business owners by education on TNR and feral cat colony management. In cooperation with the residents or business owners, a mass trapping is scheduled. Cats are trapped and taken to a clinic where they are neutered, vaccinated and their ears are tipped. Kittens and socialized cats are fostered by volunteers and placed into homes. Healthy adult feral/community cats are returned to their colony site where designated caretakers provide food, shelter and continuing care. Follow up trappings are conducted for missed or stray cats.”

If the cats are just euthanized, other cats come to take their place and the population grows. Spayed and neutered cats keep others out of their colony and their numbers decrease.

I spaded a cat once - took its head clear off!

A local cat rescue and shelter has a few colonies around the city, but not in residential areas. Trapped, spayed or neutered and released. One is by a marina on the river, another in an abandoned industrial building. They're fed regularly so I don't know how good they are at rodent control. Which is just as well. Local coyote necropsies have found rat poison in their systems. Rats eat bait, coyotes eat rats...The feed also attracts skunks and other critters.

These women you speak of do not believe the cats are feral. The have their own name for them: "community cats". And they believe these cats have certain inalienable rights.

Cats can't help being born wild, they just need love and not to be mistreated

[QUOTE]Cats can't help being born wild, they just need love and not to be mistreated

Have I had a kitty-borne one?

Can I have a kitty-borne two.

When you feed the colonies they bring more in. I told this before, the ladies at work, ALWAYS ladies, kept feeding the cats, they were told to stop and they did not, then the cat traps were brought out, no more cats and all euthanized. There were at least FIFTY all milling about fighting. YOU killed them all lovely kind ladies.

Then there was the gator everyone fed...

I feed raccoons. I hope my neighbors don't find out. They love Cheezits.

I am kitty-borne one.

YOU are kitty-borne two…

People against cat colonies have rat colonies.

I am so sick of people who bitch about anything without any sense or knowledge of reality. You can get a humane spay and neuter program in your area too.

Kitty borne Three.

[QUOTE] People against cat colonies have rat colonies.

Mkay. Whatever you say, gurl.

I bitch about people who bitch about cat colonies. Is there a humane spay and neuter for them?

r43. We'd LOVE any actual "evidence"

The person next door was feeding one of these colonies in her front yard. The smell of cat poo was nauseating. And the fleas. The cats killed all my birds and then my dogs got sick from eating cat poo that was infected with toxoplasmosis.

I asked the lady politely to stop feeding the cats but she told me that she was doing God's work and blew off my concerns.

Are you in Arkansas, r51?

This is a tough issue. I don't like the story about the ducklings at all, and Australia probably should have laws against outdoor cats.

But a lot of us DO think we're doing the right thing by helping out cold and hungry animals. Yes, there are lots of sides to this, but trap and release seems to be the best answer so far.

I put food outside too, and whoever gets it gets it. Some nights its foxes, sometimes dear or birds, skunks, raccoons, what have you.

R32 That’s an incredible story!

R44, I order 50 lb bags of dog food and feed them at night. I also put out heated water in the winter. I keep one of those kithen basins people soak dishes in full of water for one raccoon. Every night he/she comes out to eat and proceeds to sit in the bin full of water and take a bath. He/she eats the food while sitting in the basin. this raccoon is huge and I think it's in large part to me feeding this lttle one over the years.

R53, please oh, deEr yourself, thanks.

Shotguns used to be effective dealing with r55 types

Exactly what "type" am I , R56?

Does the racoon take baths all year, or only in the summer, or what? This sounds like you should put it on Youtube.

I made so many possible typos and spelling mistakes, I couldn't figure out what you meant. But then I finally figured out that it was the spelling of deer. That was a huge oh dear! Sorry!

Probably a maternal instinct, since it's mostly women and gay men. We can't bear to hear high-pitched cries of hunger.

Thats a lie,R59 . Several times Ive been in the baths laying face down emitting high-pitched cries and I didnt get shit !

R58, it's year round and I'm in NJ so it does tend to get bitterly cold at times. In the winter I fill the basin with a combo of hot and warm water right before it gets dark so it won't freeze too quickly.

I also keep a large heated water bowl for them and I've noticed the birds and squirrels drink from it, too. I had a nice bird bath in the backyard but the raucous raccoons would climb it and knock it over. I finally stored it.

Oops! I think I FF'd you by mistake I meant to WW. I'm sorry.

R43 No, they don’t bring more in if you feed them. If the cats are spayed and neutered they don’t increase and they keep other cats out of their colony.

R55/61, I'm in NJ too! Maybe we know the same raccoons. They probably like you better though. I'm inconsistent. I put part of an omelette out tonight.

Cats are better than most of the men that I know.

Are there women who feed feral sharks?