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Didn't New York just create a "Rat Tsar"? Surely you solve both problems by stopping feeding the cats.
> Do feline predatory instincts have an upside? While New York’s feral cats kill lots of mice, they are no match for the city’s rats, which greatly outnumber them. Popular notions aside, cats rarely attack rats, though rodents do avoid nesting near often-pungent cat colonies.
The only option that leaves, really, is extermination.
But nobody is going to do that (not on a scale to have an impact, anyway) because (1) it costs money and (2) people would flip out because they love cats.
Is the the Audubon Society society going to step up to pay the bill and take the blame? Will local government agencies? I don't see it happening.
Meanwhile, TNR runs on very lean budgets because it's all cat-loving volunteers.
Of course, I'm not sure it's actually effective. But, so far, no one is proposing an alternative that could actually be tried. The Audubon Society's position is effectively identical to ignoring the issue entirely.
how 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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I was under the impression that expressing a sense of humor was not allowed on this site. Can someone clarify :)
I’ve noticed it depends on your karma score and reputation
Headline sounds like a google interview question
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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.
I’m not alone in rereading for mismatched parens!
The article is paywalled - but why would you ever want to do that?
javascript:location.href = '//archive.ph/newest/' + location.href.split('?')[0];
3. Read article.
Bring 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
That’s how you get more kitty mills.
> 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…
The one kitten we kept has distinctive fear reactions to sirens and gunshot type sounds (we live next to 95 and deliberately backfiring your exhaust is, for some reason, a popular choice) in ways that our other cats don't. It's noticeable enough that we've joked about it being epigenetic.
Didn't New York just create a "Rat Tsar"? Surely you solve both problems by stopping feeding the cats.