He began volunteering with the CARE Trap - Neuter - Return program, which involves
humanely catching feral cats so they can be vaccinated and neutered and then released back into their environment if healthy.
«When Pintupi hunters from the Kiwirrkurra community in the Gibson Desert in central
Australia catch a feral cat, they have two tasks,» reported Guardian correspondent Calla Wahlquist on October 27, 2015.
Faced with the task
of catching a feral cat who had escaped into the backyard of a hoarder's residence, I used a net with a small mesh size to safely and humanely contain and then transport the cat to the shelter.
Using a humane trap is the safest solution to
catch a feral cat — safer for both the cat and for you.
Leggett's take on this research: «
Catching feral cats and neutering them did nothing to diminish the territory they hunted, nor did it stop them from hunting the birds that nest and rest on the island.»
Currently, Vector Control has set numerous traps in that area but so far they have only caught opossums and they are attempting to
catch feral cats.
Federico, a retiree, now volunteers with FixNation, a non-profit organization that trains people to
catch feral cats and then spays or neuters the strays for free before releasing them back onto the streets.
«In an effort to combat a potential typhus outbreak,» reports today's Los Angeles Times, «city officials zeroed in on two schools in [a] densely packed [Santa Ana] neighborhood and set a dozen traps to
catch feral cats and other animals that might carry disease - bearing fleas.»
«Traps to
catch feral cats have been removed from two Santa Ana school campuses, where public health officials have been trying to stop the spread of typhus, a city official said Friday.
A humane trap is the safest solution to
catch a feral cat — safer for both the cat and for you.