Screw this...leaving now to feed some FERAL, not WILD cats...

[joeybee12]

..feral cats are offspring of domesticated cats...cats that were ABANDONED by humans, they are not wild cats, the only wild cats of their size are in Africa. many of these cats have a high tolerance for adults, and will not run like a wild animal, so shooting them would be like shooting in a petting zoo, which, sick as it seems, apparently has a lot of support here at DU. Cats recently abandoned BY HUMANS will join colonies, so when the gun-totting yahoos shoot, they're killing something as tame as your house cat.

If you trap and fix and release them, it brings down the population, stops the behavior, and the killing of birds and small mammals is minimal...if you start shooting them, they become more reclusive, and you don't solve the problem. Contact your local animal control about how their trapping and euthanizing ferals and strays is working...they can't keep up, they would spend all their time doing this and not have time to deal with the real problem animals. You'll find they...who see the problem first hand...know that TNR works.

The ONLY way to reduce the feral/stray population is TNR. NOTHING else works. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a liar.