Anonymous
03/06/2022 20:39
Subject: Lots of free-roaming cats in my neighborhood….
Anonymous wrote:if it's the song birds that go off outside my bedroom window at dawn then i'm fine if the neighborhood cat goes at it. My neighbor wants to cut down my tree he says the leaves fall on his property but I bet it's because the singing is also outside his bedroom window. I told him by all means cut away.
What's wrong with you?
Anonymous
03/06/2022 20:28
Subject: Lots of free-roaming cats in my neighborhood….
if it's the song birds that go off outside my bedroom window at dawn then i'm fine if the neighborhood cat goes at it. My neighbor wants to cut down my tree he says the leaves fall on his property but I bet it's because the singing is also outside his bedroom window. I told him by all means cut away.
Anonymous
03/06/2022 20:26
Subject: Lots of free-roaming cats in my neighborhood….
Anonymous wrote:As the title says we have plenty of cats that have free reign of the neighborhood. Some have collars but the vast majority don’t, so I think they might be fending for themselves. We never see kittens though, just the adult cats. At least some of the male cats are intact. Am I just not good at spotting young cats or do they keep the kittens hidden until they’re big enough? I never though about this until my kid asked!
To answer your question kittens are often hidden until they are bigger. They will also keep on the down low until bigger to fend for themselves as they can be attacked by other cats or raptors or crows.
As to the person that asked about intact males. And whether she was lifting the cats, intact males have very large noticeable balls vs cats that have been neutered. Cats that have been neutered they balls shrink sometimes to just small pea size sometimes to nothing. Intact cats you can see their hey I'm a healthy male balls from a distance.
Anonymous
03/06/2022 16:35
Subject: Lots of free-roaming cats in my neighborhood….
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why do none of these cat people care about the birds that these ridiculous cat colonies kill? As if wild birds don’t have enough population pressure with dwindling habitat and food, people are trapping the cats and just getting them fixed? Brilliant idea, folks. Really thoroughly thought out.
I’m a cat person and I hate outdoor cats because they’re terrible for the ecosystem but I’m not sure what the solution to existing feral cat populations is. Studies have shown that both trap-neuter-release and culling are fairly ineffective control strategies unless you get like 90% off the population which is almost impossible to do. :-/
So try harder.
Anonymous
03/06/2022 14:28
Subject: Re:Lots of free-roaming cats in my neighborhood….
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Alley Cat Alliies is run by crazy people who steal each other’s cats and damage property. Google it.
Also, TNR almost never works, because to see reductions in colonies you have to spay/neuter 75% and that’s usually impossible.
The only things TNR is good for are making AAA leader Becky rich (google her multiple houses) and letting cat lovers pretend outdoor cats aren’t freezing, sick, injured, and won’t ultimately get hit be cars.
I don’t know what you’re talking about nobody charged us money and the cat stopped multiplying
I’m sure there’s other organizations that neuter and return cats
Alley Cat Allies solicits donations with big media campaigns, mailings, and so on. There have been allegations that they siphoned funds towards third parties that had little to do with its stated mission, including real estate purchases on behalf of its founder, Becky Robinson. Alley Cat Allies has also faced numerous claims that it is a toxic workplace environment. https://nonprofitchronicles.com/2018/12/19/cats-pigs-watchdogs-and-the-limits-of-nonprofit-oversight/
Anonymous
03/06/2022 12:36
Subject: Lots of free-roaming cats in my neighborhood….
I thought it's a myth that cats kill rats. Rats are too big/agressive. Cats go for songbirds, and some for mice.
Anonymous
03/06/2022 12:10
Subject: Re:Lots of free-roaming cats in my neighborhood….
Anonymous wrote:In my urban neighborhood I love the alley cats because they keep the rats at bay! I do look for the clipped ear though to see if they've been spayed/neutered. If they haven't I usually just tell my neighbor about the cat because she works with an org that does the trap-spay/neuter-release program and keeps the traps in her back yard, so if I give her a description she'll keep an eye out.
The cat in our neighborhood don't have a negative impact on song birds or wildlife because its too dense for that kind of ecosystem. I could see feeling differently about it in the burbs. Though I grew up in a more rural area and we did have outdoor cats. Again, they help with mice and rats and things. Those cats did kill birds occasionally but not often -- they were busy with the mice in the barns and as they got older, too lazy to do much of anything.
Or you could not leave your trash where the move and rats can get it.
Anonymous
03/06/2022 09:36
Subject: Re:Lots of free-roaming cats in my neighborhood….
In my urban neighborhood I love the alley cats because they keep the rats at bay! I do look for the clipped ear though to see if they've been spayed/neutered. If they haven't I usually just tell my neighbor about the cat because she works with an org that does the trap-spay/neuter-release program and keeps the traps in her back yard, so if I give her a description she'll keep an eye out.
The cat in our neighborhood don't have a negative impact on song birds or wildlife because its too dense for that kind of ecosystem. I could see feeling differently about it in the burbs. Though I grew up in a more rural area and we did have outdoor cats. Again, they help with mice and rats and things. Those cats did kill birds occasionally but not often -- they were busy with the mice in the barns and as they got older, too lazy to do much of anything.
The cat in our neighborhood don't have a negative impact on song birds or wildlife because its too dense for that kind of ecosystem. I could see feeling differently about it in the burbs. Though I grew up in a more rural area and we did have outdoor cats. Again, they help with mice and rats and things. Those cats did kill birds occasionally but not often -- they were busy with the mice in the barns and as they got older, too lazy to do much of anything.
Anonymous
03/06/2022 09:33
Subject: Lots of free-roaming cats in my neighborhood….
Alley Cat Allies mailed us (for no good reason because we’d never contribute) a calendar showing rehomed TNR cats lounging around outside without leashes of fences. Ugh.
Anonymous
03/06/2022 09:32
Subject: Re:Lots of free-roaming cats in my neighborhood….
Anonymous wrote:
Alley Cat Alliies is run by crazy people who steal each other’s cats and damage property. Google it.
Also, TNR almost never works, because to see reductions in colonies you have to spay/neuter 75% and that’s usually impossible.
The only things TNR is good for are making AAA leader Becky rich (google her multiple houses) and letting cat lovers pretend outdoor cats aren’t freezing, sick, injured, and won’t ultimately get hit be cars.
I don’t know what you’re talking about nobody charged us money and the cat stopped multiplying
I’m sure there’s other organizations that neuter and return cats