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Re:Alabama women, 85 and 61, sentenced after feeding stray cats by nroets on Sunday December 18, 2022 @04:08AM (#34036149)
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...

Re:Alabama women, 85 and 61, sentenced after feeding stray cats by lultimouomo on Sunday December 18, 2022 @04:56AM (#34036322)
> Feeding unsterilized animals

They were trapping and neutering them

Re:Alabama women, 85 and 61, sentenced after feeding stray cats by sshine on Sunday December 18, 2022 @06:38AM (#34036785)
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.

Re:Alabama women, 85 and 61, sentenced after feeding stray cats by baobabKoodaa on Sunday December 18, 2022 @09:22AM (#34037893)
Uhh, that's what we train the police for, I guess?
Re:Alabama women, 85 and 61, sentenced after feeding stray cats by Eddy_Viscosity2 on Sunday December 18, 2022 @08:31AM (#34037469)
Is this the same reason they also outlaw feeding homeless humans?

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

Re:Alabama women, 85 and 61, sentenced after feeding stray cats by nroets on Sunday December 18, 2022 @10:33AM (#34038606)
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)