Can you spell that out for me? Wouldn't the cat population self-regulate if food supply was more constrained?

The food supply is native birds and animals that have not evolved for a non native species like the feral cat.

Cats kill pray even if they are well fed. So humans feeding them will increase the impact on other species not decrease it.

In 20 generations animals evolve pretty much anything. Enough of this non native bs, cats have lived with humans for thousands of years, and 50 years is enough to adapt to pretty much anything.

They need to be population controlled, so rather than killing cats what these women do is neuter the cats they can and try to keep them fed.

They also try to get people to adopt some of the cats, but there are so many it’s an uphill battle.

Cats are invasive species to North America and are high quality predators. Their food supply is quite large.

Domesticated cats, yes, but I think bobcats and mountain lions are native?

There are several big cats, yes. But I think everyone understood that when I said "cats" I meant "the kind you have in your house" and did not need to be further clarified. American native cats also include the lynx, ocelot, and jaguar. For further clarification, I am also not discussing these cats. You may notice that these cats are very different sizes.

They’re getting the cats neutered/spayed. So they’re doing population control that the county isn’t doing.

Maybe we can "solve" rats or hogs similar way: feeding and veterinary care.

The real problem is cats are protected. Anything bad happens, and we see articles like this. In reality it is invasive predatory species and should be treated as such!

Feeding unsterilized animals causes their population to explode and dependence on humans.

This is also true for native species: https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/wildlifedamage/don...

> Feeding unsterilized animals

They were trapping and neutering them

That’s what they say!

But the police and courts can see through this thinly veiled deceit. Spotting a cat feeder not intent on trapping and neutering their subjects is police academy 101 material.

Uhh, that's what we train the police for, I guess?

Is this the same reason they also outlaw feeding homeless humans?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/arizona-woman-sues...

No. With humans the dynamic is completely different: The most effective way to encourage woman to have fewer children is health care. Not just birth control but also nutrition and health care of the children they already have.

Then there is the much more complicated situation for countries that takes good care of refugees and economic migrants. (Word gets out and more and more people try to migrate)