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Another wild, nasty, hostile feral cat
We’ve caught another one. And as you can see, it’s really mean.
Our local feral cat person is maxed out on fostered kittens, mostly due to Becky’s work a month ago. So we’re open to offers of new homes. There are, apparently, five more in this litter.
This summer, we decided to ignore our strongly held beliefs about the evils of re-releasing altered ferals. I’ve long felt that people who re-release bear similar culpability to the people that released the cats in the first place. I’ve been known to call the practiice “Trap, Neuter and Abandon” (a line borrowed from PETA co-founder Ingrid Newkirk — if PETA, of all groups, advocates euthanizing ferals, then there have to be some pretty strong arguments in favor of it.)
But these cats lived on the property of a neighbor who was outraged that we’d dare trap the cats in the first place. We reluctantly decided to re-release two adults, seeing as 1) we needed to reassure our neighbor that we weren’t out to “steal” “her” cats, and 2) she’d at least feed them. Two re-released, and a dozen kittens in new homes: seemed like a reasonable compromise at the time.
We went to that neighbor’s memorial service two days ago, having sacrificed those two cats so that our neighbor could enjoy a few days of seeing them lurk her driveway. They bought those few days with a lifetime of hunger, cold, and fear — not to mention the price the neighborhood birds and reptiles are paying.
Never again. I’m so sorry. Never again.
Posted by: Chris Clarke
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