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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I take care of a small colony near my house. If you want to bring your cat inside, then you should trap the cat or put it in a carrier, and then take the kitty directly to your vet. The shelter will lend you a trap if you need one. If you already have cats, then your feral should be tested for FIV and FeLV before bringing him inside. A cat being FIV+ is actually okay, so long as it doesn't fight with your existing cats. I have FIV+ cats indoors. FeLV, however, is a dealbreaker. Your vet can also provide pills for deworming, flea medication, etc. It sounds like your cat will adjust to being inside. Given its age, if it just disappeared one day because it got sick, would it break your heart? Oh, and P.S., feral cats living in urban areas are typically only active at night. They sleep during the day because they are afraid of people. There aren't many birds out at night. It is my observation that the indoor-outdoor cats are the ones killing the birds. [/quote]

Indoor outdoor may be worse, but none are good and we’re at a crisis point with birds.[/quote]

We are also hitting a crisis point with rats.[/quote]

Not like the one with birds. [/quote]

The birds are getting decimated by windmills and pestcides killing their food sources, not cats.[/quote]

Those don’t help, but [b]windows, lights [/b]and cats are doing the worst damage.[/quote]

So... humans. What are you doing to help the birds being killed by your windows and lights?
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Please see my thread in the lawn/patio sub. We’re talking about the problem of “community” cats in this thread. [/quote]

Cool, so you want to kill the cats?

Because making a stray cat indoor-only isn't going to work. [/quote]

KILLING CATS ISNT ACCEPTABLE RESPONSE[/quote]

That seems to be what pp is suggesting. The outdoor cat is already spayed/neutered. T&R programs are fantastic, and should be encouraged.

You can't make all the outdoor cats become indoor-only cats. That isn't going to work. PP has no solution except... "butbutbut think of the birds!"

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And your plan is “let hundreds of millions of birds die because I love cat calendars”.

Find a shelter, find someone willing to take it and get it off the street. Don’t let it kill hundreds of birds. [/quote]

Hundreds of millions of birds are not being killed by cats.

You do know that from the dawn of history until 20-30 years ago, most cats spent all or some time inside.

Amazingly,  birds did not go extinct.[/quote]

Billions of birds have been killed in the last few decades. This is a fact, it’s just a question of how okay you are with it.

Bird populations were much larger and cat populations were smaller. There have always been felines, or one kind or another, in our area, but they were not house cats, and they did not prey mercilessly on the songbird and other small bird populations.

Claiming the cats can’t be home but are being spayed, neutered and vaccinated is not an acceptable answer but it is better than imagining these poor animals are doing good. All efforts should be firstly and primarily focused on getting them off the street - feeding a “community cat” is absolute last resort behavior.[/quote]

No cat populations were not smaller.  Neuterung feral cats is a very new practice.

At this point it just looks like the bird person is a bored troll.[/quote]

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