The article is paywalled - but why would you ever want to do that?
To keep the cats out
Clearing 500k feral cats from New York’s streets
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#12The article is paywalled - but why would you ever want to do that?
Cat content is a human right.
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#14how about they start earning their keep and start hunting the 5M rats out there.
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#15One meeeeeeeellion stray dogs.
Let them fight
Re: Clearing 500k feral cats from New York’s streets
#16The 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.
This smells like a moralism that has very little real impact on the population (which is driven by food supply and neutering efforts).
My guess is that the lockdown halting spaying/neutering operations was 100x as impactful as additional abandoned cats.
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#17The 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.
Which is also something I can just not comprehend as a pet owner (cat / dog). I already feel bad leaving my dog alone for a few hours a week lol. (With a cat, less so. They are less dramatic about being left alone.. :) )
EDIT: forgot to close a parenthesis and the LISPer in me panicked.
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#18Headline sounds like a google interview question
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#19Didn't New York just create a "Rat Tsar"? Surely you solve both problems by stopping feeding the cats.
Go one step higher on the chain and develop a refuge system appropriate for the 21st century then you can knock out three in one go.
I dont know who this depressed but throwing trash bags on the street is something the modern world solved many years ago.
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#20The article is making it seem like trap-neuter-release is a completely new strategy, but groups in NYC and elsewhere have been employing it for a long time. What's new is that Flatbush Cats is building a new vet clinic to provide more spaying / neutering capacity.