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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, all these suggestions—motion-activated sprinklers, wolf piss (shudder)—just drive the cats into your neighbors’ yards. They aren’t solutions.[/quote]

Well...they are for OP depending on how much she cares about that! [/quote]

That seems to encapsulate the TNR attitude—cats trump people and wildlife and human health concerns.

And, please explain why OP should be dropping $200 on multiple sprinklers and hoses, or spraying her yard and with stinky wolf piss every 10 weeks, or why her neighbors should be doing this, when none of them created the problem.

The woman with the cat colony made this problem and should be paying for her neighbors’ sprinklers. [/quote]

TNR cats are wildlife and party of an ecosystem [/quote]

Bullsh*t. Cats are non-native and definitely not part of the ecosystem. Nothing around here evolved to deal with cat predation. Feral/outdoor cats are incredibly damaging to our ecosystem. [/quote]

Wild cats are part of our human‐made ecosystem. They are nocturnal and catch mice. I'm not talking about irresponsible pet owners who let their cats outdoors. I'm taking about fetal cats, born in the wild and unable to domesticate. [/quote]

Absolutely not.

Cats are originally from the Middle East—they’re nothing like the bobcats that evolved here. They don’t just kill mice; outdoor cats are responsible for at least one billion, probably more like two billion, bird kills a year, often fledglings and birds that nest close to the ground like white-throated sparrows. Bird populations are down 30% since the 1970s (white-throated sparrows are down 60%) and outdoor cats are a huge part of that.

Feral cats have contributed to the extinction of 63 species of birds, mammals and reptiles. They continue to threaten hundreds more species.

There’s no evidence cats are effective at rodent control. (Go to the Wikipedia page “Cat predation on wildlife”.)

Feral cat poop spreads toxoplasmosis, a disease that’s terrible for pregnant women and those who are immuno-compromised. Not to mention, it’s nasty and, as you can see from this thread, your neighbors have to spend hundreds of dollars to deal with your colony’s impact.

Cat owners and TNR colony managers have to take responsibility for this ecological damage. 
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