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Originally Posted by genuinegirly
My real question is, what is wrong with ferel cats? Why not let them run wild and free and let nature do the natural selection? I have seen a neighborhood with a large population of ferel cats, and I have seen one without. There were no rats in one, the rats ate all of the strawberries and tomatoes in the garden of another. Not to mention the fact that there are fewer crows when ferel cats are about - and when there are no ferel cats, there are too many crows to deal with.
I see that neutered male cats make excellent house pets. They can be cuddly and loving. But those that I have met would stand no chance in the wild. It is an act of complete human selfishness to spay or neuter any animal.
The humane society has it wrong.
Altering animals is cruel.
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Why are there fewer rodents and crows? Because humans have introduced an unnatural predator into the ecosystem. Feral cats are unnatural predators. They don't belong anywhere. They do not belong naturally to ANY ecosystem. Cats are meant to be domestic animals, like pigs, cows, sheep, dogs, and other animals we keep for pets or food. They aren't meant to be in the wild. In the wild, they help spread disease to other animals, they reproduce uncontrollably, and yes, they keep the population of prey down--but far below normal levels, edging out other natural predators.
Feral cats are pests, not pets. Trapping and spaying/neutering feral cats is the only way to eliminate this pest problem, and spaying/neutering pet cats is the only way to prevent it from happening.