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You don't 'rehome' a feral cat. You do TNR. Safe, humane, and effective. <http://www.neighborhoodcats.org/HOW_TO_WHAT_IS_TNR> http://www.neighborhoodcats.org/HO
by setpatchaddress 11y ago
You don't 'rehome' a feral cat. You do TNR. Safe, humane, and effective. <http://www.neighborhoodcats.org/HOW_TO_WHAT_IS_TNR> http://www.neighborhoodcats.org/HOW_TO_WHAT_IS_TNR>
- vacri 11y agoThe arguments in that article don't seem to ring true. It's claiming that simple trap-and-remove just has other cats move into the area and that if you don't catch all of them, the breeding pairs bring population back to the same level. But with TNR, the population is never reduced, since you put them back; you have the same problem with breeders if you don't catch them all; and when the neutered cats start dying out, they'll be replaced by the same neighbours anyway.
- jacobush 11y agoNeutered cats compete for resources that otherwise breeding ones would access.
- vacri 11y agoSo you have a full competing population, otherwise there'd be spare for the breeding cats. Then when the neutered ones die, existing breeders fill in the gaps, or, as the article says, neighbours come in.
- pvaldes 11y agommmh... yes and no. Neutered male cats are bottom feeders in the cat societies. They will be attacked and easily displaced from the best areas by the other cats. Maybe is diferent for neutered females. Females stay in the same territory with her mothers often, they only move when are in heat and there is not any appropiate male at sight.