How to Clear 500k Feral Cats from New York’s Streets

Re:How to Clear 500k Feral Cats from New York’s Streets by MisterTea on Thursday June 08, 2023 @10:48AM (#36242768)

During the pandemic irresponsible morons adopted cats to alleviate the loneliness only to abandon their new friends on the street once the restrictions waned. This inhumane treatment has resulted in thousands of feral cats added to city streets. This is not good for the city or the cats.

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Re:How to Clear 500k Feral Cats from New York’s Streets by Insanity on Thursday June 08, 2023 @10:53AM (#36242867)

Which is also something I can just not comprehend as a pet owner (cat / dog). I already feel bad leaving my dog alone for a few hours a week lol. (With a cat, less so. They are less dramatic about being left alone.. :) )

EDIT: forgot to close a parenthesis and the LISPer in me panicked.

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Re:How to Clear 500k Feral Cats from New York’s Streets by jjtheblunt on Thursday June 08, 2023 @11:03AM (#36243035)

I’m not alone in rereading for mismatched parens!

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Re:How to Clear 500k Feral Cats from New York’s Streets by bombcar on Thursday June 08, 2023 @11:10AM (#36243158)

I need a plugin for the browser that adds closing parens when you type an opening one like many code editors do.

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Re:How to Clear 500k Feral Cats from New York’s Streets by MisterTea on Thursday June 08, 2023 @12:43PM (#36244800)

> With a cat, less so. They are less dramatic about being left alone.. :) )

I have two male cats, brothers, of which one becomes very needy and whiny after I'm gone for a few days (hes a needy little guy). He stays close, follows me around, whines and mews for attention, and sleeps on the bed with me or next to it. After a week this behavior dies down to normal levels of attention and he goes back to sleeping in the basement or the living room. His brother doesn't exhibit this behavior even though he is equally affectionate.

Was camping just recently and away for a week the other month and both times I get an ear full on return in the form of loud yowls as if he's yelling "where the hell were you!"

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Re:How to Clear 500k Feral Cats from New York’s Streets by boredemployee on Friday June 09, 2023 @08:49AM (#36257082)

I can relate 100%. Cats are amazing creatures

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Re:How to Clear 500k Feral Cats from New York’s Streets by justrealist on Thursday June 08, 2023 @10:52AM (#36242855)

This smells like a moralism that has very little real impact on the population (which is driven by food supply and neutering efforts).

My guess is that the lockdown halting spaying/neutering operations was 100x as impactful as additional abandoned cats.

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Re:How to Clear 500k Feral Cats from New York’s Streets by taneq on Thursday June 08, 2023 @07:25PM (#36250772)

Depends whether the abandoned pets had already been desexed. If not then each additional fertile animal could outpace any linear effort by humans.

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