yeah, you can be down on cats, hell! you can even not like them, that’s ttly fair- but to relish killing them? there’s a reason the FBI thinks people who kill animals turn into serial killers.

I feel it’s a bit shortsighted to blame the cats too. I get legitimately not wanting them in your neighborhood. I know a couple of ways where they are damn nuisances (everything from fouling in you garden to forcing you into pet ownership. one tomcat decided to annex our house after the dog died, bestowing upon us all…

Yup! And, we can support sterile-feral organizations that go out and sterilize these animals so that they don't reproduce, too.

I actually work for a TNR group and these are in fact feral cats from a colony that I have trapped and released! I have actually been able to adopt out one of the feral males that everyone told me would be impossible after about 5 years of feeding him twice a day. It was years before he would even eat in front of me…

It took me two to three years to get a senior feral cat to trust me and when he got seriously injured in a fight he came to my house and called for me. Took him to the vet and had to keep him inside to heal but after he healed he decided to stay with me. I guess he decided my family was his new pack of cats. He is…

Yes - and it actually costs a community less to have a volunteer run TNR spay/neuter clinic, than it does to house feral cats in a shelter (these cats are not adoptable), have staff care for these cats for the minimum time period, then euthanize the cats and dispose of the bodies.

Everybody lets their cats out where I live. I like it! I get to meet them when they come to visit my own furballs (two of whom generally stay in the enclosed yard; one wanders). There’s one that lives across the street, in particular, who’s super-friendly and sweet. I love him! When he’s done lolling on my deck being…

Anyone in the veterinary world should know that there are many feral rescue groups. I work with a woman who is part of one. She carries cat carriers in her car and has rescued several injured ferals who have been hit by cars or whatever. These groups pay to spay and neuter, give shots, and either release the cats back…

SAME! In fact many of the feral cats in my neighborhood are more cuddly (after a few years of warming up for most...) than my own house kitties!

I live in the south where stray animals number in the thousands. Most humane societies have a program for trapping, spaying/neutering, and then either rereleasing feral cats to keep down rodent populations or adopting them out. There’s also a low cost non-income based program for fixing both cats and dogs. The lazy…

I know! We do TNR in San Francisco, and the amount of yowling I hear in the spring is much MUCH less than it was 5 years ago! IT works!

Seriously. My roommate took forever to spay our cat and we wouldn’t let her out until after that. But I didn’t like letting her out. But it was my roommate’s cat, so she let her go outside and roam. But I know people who are just too lazy to neuter/spay. I would argue cost, but where I live we have free/low cost…

I lived in a city that did not permit TNR. We did have an animal rescue that did low cost spay and neuter. They had traps people could borrow. The company line was, if someone brought in a cat the clinic couldn’t KNOW it wasn’t their cat. So they did the spay/neuter and the person picked the cat up. If they then…

Feral cats get a bad reputation because people would rather hate them then help them. I feed a lot of feral cats in my neighborhood and they’re harmless. Yes, sometimes they spray my front door or whatever and you know what? I just clean it up with enzyme spray and its gone, problem solved (yes yes, I’m also in the…

People who trap freaks for the purpose of having them killed (and in including people who brig them to shelters knowing full well we can’t adopt them out) are assholes. Seriously the rudest, shittiest, most dickish people.

THIS is the only instance I can think of

Did you hear about the people that set fire to a quokka and thought it was no big deal? What the fuck kind of person finds joy in abusing and killing animals? (Answer: sociopaths, I know.)

That’s the thing! My same reaction to that girl who shot the giraffe “for the villagers”. Even if you are “helping”, how can you be so happy about it?

I’m going to enjoy ordering from her at a Dunkin Donuts window. Excellent way to tell everyone she is not fit for her profession, as well as most professions.

I understand that humans sometimes kill animals. But no one should never ever smile about it.