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Feral Cats Need Homes Too!

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by: TheWoodlandsTXDotCom Active Indicator LED Icon 7 Site Admin  OP 
~ 2 years, 10 mos ago   Jun 1, '21 10:56am  
Feral Cats Need Homes Too!
 
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Feral cats need homes too! MCAS currently has several semi-feral cats that are looking for new homes where they can be cared for without strings attached - like having to snuggle or be pet.
 
Do you have a barn or other outdoor area that needs rodent patrol?
 
Come and visit the shelter and ask about the "Barn Cats."
 
(Barn cats typically do not enjoy lots of public attention, so they are not in the front adoption rooms, please ask for staff assistance to meet them.)
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sa1111 Active Indicator LED Icon 1
~ 2 years, 10 mos ago   Jun 2, '21 6:20am  
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Promoting irresponsibility. Cats are not good rodent control and kill billions of wildlife each year. Do the right thing. Don't promote irresponsibility.
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DEEDEE8 Active Indicator LED Icon 4
~ 2 years, 10 mos ago   Jun 2, '21 7:30am  
How many millions are also killed by birds of prey? I see it every evening when I am outside watching my cat. Birds of prey going after other birds. And what about people feeding birds, and the birdseed gets moldy and they die from eating moldy birdseed by well-intentioned people.
 
But where are those statistics???
 
We domesticated cats, they did not ask to be. Now we have a duty to help the ones that horrible people dump and abandon. If we do not spay and neuter and return these cats, the cycle keeps on going. Plus how is it right to just kill of these cats? ? No one would ever convince me that is the right thing to do.
 
Nature is nature and even when we do not like it, it is what it is. Everyone accepts this for the killer coyotes that kill cats, small dogs, birds, rodents, rabbits etc. etc.
 
I get so tired of cat haters rants!
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sa1111 Active Indicator LED Icon 1
~ 2 years, 10 mos ago   Jun 2, '21 7:33am  
If we are to encourage responsible pet ownership by asking folks to keep their cats indoors for the protection of felines and the preservation of wildlife we undermine that commitment and that message by saying that some cats can and should be working cats or barn cats or mousers. Cats are not wildlife and their home is not outdoors.
 
Cats do kill mice and rats, but they also kill many non-target species. The domestic cat is a prolific hunter of birds, small mammals, reptiles and amphibians. Cats do not distinguish among the species they kill. More than likely, when a cat is employed to keep pests at bay, she is also harming native wildlife. Cats can kill rare, threatened or endangered species or species of special concern, as well as many common species. Barn swallows, Carolina wrens and other magnificent wild creatures that share our spaces needlessly die due to this knee-jerk response to rodent problems.
 
In fact, results of a study published in 2004 by Hawkins, et al. stated: The presence of homeless house cats that received supplemental food had a negative impact on native California rodents and birds. Native rodents and birds were less abundant and the exotic house mouse was found to be more abundant in areas where cats were being fed.
There is nothing environmentally friendly or 'green' about unleashing a non-native, invasive predator that destroys so much more than what is intended. The collateral damage does not justify the use of cats as mousers. Cats do not add to biodiversity - they deplete it.
 
Furthermore, cats are the only species to shed the parasite toxoplasma gondii in their feces. According to the CDC, this parasite can live in the environment for many months and contaminate soil, water, fruits and vegetables, sandboxes, grass where animals graze for food or any place where an infected cat may have defecated.
 
Toxoplasmosis is an infection caused by this parasite. More than 60 million people in the U.S. carry the Toxoplasma parasite. Toxoplasmosis can cause severe illness in infants infected before birth (when their mothers are newly infected during pregnancy), or in persons who have a weakened immune system.
 
Cats get Toxoplasma infection by eating infected rodents, birds or other small animals, or anything contaminated by feces from another cat that is releasing the parasite.
 
Control mice and rats naturally by encouraging the presence of great-horned owls and barn owls. Erect a fifteen-foot platform on which birds of prey can perch. Do not cut down dead trees (as long as they do not pose a danger if they should fall) as these also serve as good perching spots for raptors. Snakes are excellent for rodent control, too. Native predators are not in abundance and therefore do not deplete the food supply or wreak havoc on wildlife populations. Their effect on wildlife has an ecological basis unlike that of domestic cats, whose out-of-control population is vastly larger than all native predators put together.
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sa1111 Active Indicator LED Icon 1
~ 2 years, 10 mos ago   Jun 2, '21 8:05am  
@DEEDEE8 : Responsible ownership is not cat-hater rants. Letting cats roam for anything to happen to them is actual cat haters. My gosh, the hypocrisy of everything. How are you not getting that birds of prey or coyotes are native and don't impact wildlife negatively, because duh, they're native ? Denialism. Secondly, since you always bring up other things to justify cats roaming around, people do need to clean their birdfeeders. Best to not have birdfeeders at all, since birdfeeding doesn't helps birds, only done for human enjoyment. Humans have a duty to help wildlife and the environment, not make it worse. Obviously non-natives purposly let loose is not one of those ways to do that. Cats aren't decreasing, they have tripled in the last forty years. TNR is a feel-good, not based on facts and science.
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~ 2 years, 10 mos ago   Jun 2, '21 10:52am  
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@DEEDEE8 : One of nicest Cats we have ever had came out of the woods one day, and began following my dog and me... true story... one day we noticed she was lethargic and unsteady as if she'd been bitten by a snake or poisoned... she knew she needed our help and followed us to my waiting wife who nursed her back to the incredible awesome Black Jack Randall that she now has become... we did not know she was a girl when we named her... but it stuck...
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~ 2 years, 10 mos ago   Jun 2, '21 11:04am  
DEEDEE8 : One of nicest Cats we have ever had came out of the woods one day, and began following my dog and me... true story... one day we noticed she was lethargic and unsteady as if she'd been bitten by a snake or poisoned... she knew she needed our help and followed us to my waiting wife who nursed her back to the incredible awesome Black Jack Randall that she now has become... we did not know she was a girl when we named her... but it stuck...
 
@titus12tnt12 : She is gorgeous!!!
 
Thanks for saving her and thanks for posting....I love anything that is pro-cat. They can receive so much bad press.
 
She looks a lot like my Billy, but girlier lol. Billy is my first solid black cat I have had since I was a child. I love all cats and really love tabbies (lost mine of 17 1/2 years last July) ...... but black cats are really special. Ours has a very unique personality and he is very smart, sweet and also very engaged with us.
 
Thanks for saving your girl's life and giving her a great one!
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~ 2 years, 10 mos ago   Jun 2, '21 11:11am  
DEEDEE8 : Responsible ownership is not cat-hater rants. Letting cats roam for anything to happen to them is actual cat haters. My gosh, the hypocrisy of everything. How are you not getting that birds of prey or coyotes are native and don't impact wildlife negatively, because duh, they're native ? Denialism. Secondly, since you always bring up other things to justify cats roaming around, people do need to clean their birdfeeders. Best to not have birdfeeders at all, since birdfeeding doesn't helps birds, only done for human enjoyment. Humans have a duty to help wildlife and the environment, not make it worse. Obviously non-natives purposly let loose is not one of those ways to do that. Cats aren't decreasing, they have tripled in the last forty years. TNR is a feel-good, not based on facts and science.
 
@sa1111 : I am not against responsible ownership. I am all for it. But what do you propose for all the cats that were not responsibly owned? Kill them? No way I would ever feel that way so do not try to convince me of that.
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~ 2 years, 10 mos ago   Jun 2, '21 11:12am  
@titus12tnt12 : What point are you making? Since the nicest cat you met came out of the woods, means people should lets cats roam free?
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DEEDEE8 Active Indicator LED Icon 4
~ 2 years, 10 mos ago   Jun 2, '21 11:43am  
titus12tnt12 : What point are you making? Since the nicest cat you met came out of the woods, means people should lets cats roam free?
 
@sa1111 : I do not want to speak for someone else....but I am thinking the point is that great and loving people adopt, care for and nurse back to health...and give great homes to wonderful, beautiful and amazing cats. And homeless cats are usually very grateful for someone showing love to them and want to be part of a family.
 
I prefer every cat to have a home, I do not love TNR but for different reasons than you have. But unfortunately there is no alternative sometimes.
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sa1111 Active Indicator LED Icon 1
~ 2 years, 10 mos ago   Jun 2, '21 12:04pm  
@DEEDEE8 : Yes, if can't be homed responsibly or be put some placed where they can be let out supervised or in some type of enclosure, they do need to be killed. Cats are domesticated, so we have a responsibility to do the right thing for wildlife, not only care about pets. This post is not promoting the best for the environment, public health, or cats. "Care for a cat without strings attached" is stating owners use cats for humans' benefits and if they die, o well, they die. Get another one.
sa1111 : No way I would ever feel that way so do not try to convince me of that.
It's hilarious how people blab about how horrible it is to kill cats, but yet can't give up their animal products. At the end, you convince yourself, but this thinking of free-roaming cats isn't logical.
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~ 2 years, 10 mos ago   Jun 2, '21 2:39pm  
I NEVER have a feeling if something happens to one, just get another one. But cats have a way of finding you and it happens for a reason IMO.
 
I get very attached to my cats and since I do not have children, they are my children. So I am never the same when I lose one. I know some people are not that way with their pets....but I am. That being said, anyone who can open their heart to a cat or a dog needing a home, please do, so many are in need and even though it is heartbreaking to lose them.....they give so much joy to your life, it is still worth it knowing they will be gone one day.
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~ 2 years, 10 mos ago   Jun 2, '21 4:20pm  
@DEEDEE8 : I think sa1111 needs a cat... he or she seems unhappy... she can't have any of our rescues however... yes both of our cats, and our dog are rescue animals... they seem to appreciate being taken care of ... that is my point!!!
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~ 2 years, 10 mos ago   Jun 2, '21 4:24pm  
DEEDEE8 : I think sa1111 needs a cat... he or she seems unhappy... she can't have any of our rescues however... yes both of our cats, and our dog are rescue animals... they seem to appreciate being taken care of ... that is my point!!!
 
@titus12tnt12 : Thanks for rescuing them and giving them a loving home and wonderful life!!!!
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~ 2 years, 10 mos ago   Jun 2, '21 4:27pm  
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~ 2 years, 10 mos ago   Jun 2, '21 4:31pm  
@titus12tnt12 :
 
What a beautiful cat 😸
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