Clearing 500k feral cats from New York’s streets
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Re: Clearing 500k feral cats from New York’s streets
#2pssp pssp pssp x 500,000
Re: Clearing 500k feral cats from New York’s streets
#3The article is paywalled - but why would you ever want to do that?
Re: Clearing 500k feral cats from New York’s streets
#4pssp pssp pssp x 500,000
Thanks for that. I cracked up
Re: Clearing 500k feral cats from New York’s streets
#5The article is paywalled - but why would you ever want to do that?
To pay the journalist, perhaps?
Re: Clearing 500k feral cats from New York’s streets
#6Didn't New York just create a "Rat Tsar"? Surely you solve both problems by stopping feeding the cats.
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#7One meeeeeeeellion stray dogs.
Re: Clearing 500k feral cats from New York’s streets
#8Given that the article is also kind of a PSA for New Yorkers, I'm surprised that it didn't mention ear clipping. If a feral cat has already been spayed or neutered, its left ear is clipped so that people know to leave it alone and not trap it again.
Re: Clearing 500k feral cats from New York’s streets
#9The article is paywalled - but why would you ever want to do that?
During the pandemic irresponsible morons adopted cats to alleviate the loneliness only to abandon their new friends on the street once the restrictions waned. This inhumane treatment has resulted in thousands of feral cats added to city streets. This is not good for the city or the cats.
Re: Clearing 500k feral cats from New York’s streets
#10> Rattling off statistics that she has internalized as a volunteer, Ms. Adams points out that eight out of 10 street kittens die within their first six months. Those that survive are often disease-ridden. Winters here can be deadly for a species that originated in the Mediterranean climate of North Africa. And traffic takes a big toll.
I wonder if those kitties show genetical adaptions specific to their challenging environment? Is their population and breeding speed enough to allow for useful (micro) mutations to appear?