Registered: Aug 2000
Location: In a Blue, Blue State
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Military control of feral cats

From the Armed Forces News, 8/31/00:

Defense Department sources have published the following guidelines for control of on-base feral cats (born in the wild and never domesticated):

(1) Control of feral cats ultimately becomes the base commander's responsibility;

(2) Failure to control them "amounts to inhumane treatment of animals";

(3) Poisoning, drowning, or gassing cats "are considered inhumane practices, and that makes them illegal';

(4) Shooting, except in special circumstances, is 'not a very good solution because people don't like to see anyone shooting cats";

(5) Don't blame cats for reproducing, blame people for letting them roam or releasing them;

(6) Some people complain that it hurts their sensibilities to call a cat a pest.

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: the heart of an awl
Posts: 3691

I worked for the county solid waste dept one summer. There was a big feral cat problem at the transfer station. THey would catch the cats live and turn them over to the humane society.

Later, I transferred to the landfill/county farm. Every tuesday, a truck from the humane society would show up with black plastic hefty bags full of frozen euthanized animals. The guy would throw them in the backhoe bucket so they could be buried in a grave carved out of the manmade mountain of trash.

It never occurred to me until now that probably every single cat they caught at the transfer station ended up at the landfill. Who wants a scraggly feral cat raised on garbage?

What a waste all around.

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