The benefits to keeping feral cats around outweigh the cost of altering them.Removing feral cats from a location is ineffective as it opens a territorial void and then more
unaltered cats move in, starting the breeding cycle all over again.
Not exact matches
Long - term studies have demonstrated the futility of such a strategy since other
unaltered cats quickly replace the exterminated animals,
moving in to take over the food source and resume the reproductive cycle.
By fixing the
cats that are at your location and keeping them there, this will keep out other
cats (that are
unaltered) from
moving in and quickly repopulating the area.
When «fixed»
cats are returned, they guard their colony's territory, discouraging
unaltered cats from
moving in and repeating the cycle of overpopulation.
I inherited over 27
unaltered cats and kittens when my husbands ex wife
moved out.She did not believe God wanted us to alter any living creature.So needless to say I had a mess on my hands.But with help from some very wonderful people we managed to get all fixed, vetted and re-homed, as I had a lot of close friends who had small farms, and they took a bunch each!