Headline sounds like a google interview question
Now lets do it in Ologn computation time
Clearing 500k feral cats from New York’s streets
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Re: Clearing 500k feral cats from New York’s streets
#22Given 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.
TNR with ear clipping is done in the UK by the Cat Protection League. They loan you a trap and neuter the cat. Our house cat is an ex stray with a clipped ear from CPL.
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#23Didn't New York just create a "Rat Tsar"? Surely you solve both problems by stopping feeding the cats.
Some of those rats are the same size of the cats.
Re: Clearing 500k feral cats from New York’s streets
#24Can we give the cats a few months to take down the rat problem first?
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#25The article is paywalled - but why would you ever want to do that?
To enjoy more rats, I guess.
Dogs must be eradicated. They're dangerous for human. Cats are not and should be tolerated.
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#26Bring in a cat and you get a burger!
After a while the hamburger's will taste different. That's the point when you will surely know the program became self sufficient...
lol
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#27how about they start earning their keep and start hunting the 5M rats out there.
I'm gonna guess the main problem is the rats are smart and will stay in sewers and other places cats can't get to them.
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#28Bring in a cat and you get a burger! After a while the hamburger's will taste different. That's the point when you will surely know the program became self sufficient... lol
I was under the impression that expressing a sense of humor was not allowed on this site. Can someone clarify :)
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#29Pet ownership needs more regulation. And it needs to be enforced.
Our neighborhood social media pages are full of stray animals roaming the streets, piles of newborn kittens in crawlspaces and dumpsters, emaciated dogs found everywhere...
And then at the same time you have people trying to give away or even sell puppy after puppy and kitten after kitten.
If you own an animal, it needs to be spayed or neutered.
Re: Clearing 500k feral cats from New York’s streets
#30> 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 e…
I would guess yes. A species can change pretty quickly when you have a new generation every year, a population of thousands, and some factor that kills ~50%.
After all, these moths[1] evolved their markings to match polluted industrial cities in just a few decades (and just 7 years in a follow up experiment)