Uptown Girl, are you asking because you are curious and feel empathy for these animals, or do you feel no one should do this? What Terri says is true, if this is not done all through a group that has protocols, everyone may do it differently. Usually the food stations are wherever the cats have been found and live. If in common areas, they are hidden in bushes or something. If someone feeds them on their own property that is because the cats came to their property and they want to help them. I don't think anyone who knows what they are doing will place food stations on someone else's home property. If its not their own property, it is usually in a bushy area near a parking lot or something. Most of the cats eat and then sit around and groom. Most of the time there isnt anything left to pick up as feeding them is expensive so we only put out enough for them to eat- at least that is me. And the amount of cats that come depend on the colony. If you don't TNR them, you will have more and more. If you can fix them, you will only have as many as are there originally. They are territorial so you don't usually get other cats from outside the colony joining in. They have to find their own territory. Hope I have answered your questions and have shed some light on how doing this can help the situation, not exacerbate feral cat problems.
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