This from the PETA website:
"Because of the huge number of feral cats and the severe shortage of good homes, the difficulty of socialization, and the dangers lurking where most feral cats live, it may be necessary and the most compassionate choice to euthanize feral cats. You can ask your veterinarian to do this or, if your local shelter uses an injection of sodium pentobarbital, take the cats there. Please do not allow the prospect of euthanasia to deter you from trapping cats. If you leave them where they are, they will almost certainly die a painful death. A painless injection is far kinder than any fate that feral cats will meet if left to survive on their own."
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Feral cats are not natural inhabitants in our nature areas and by their numbers DO upset the ecological balance.
I respectfully do not understand what it means to say, "taking them off the streets creates a vacuum that other ferals will fill".
Feral cats kill millions of birds and small mammals a year in the U.S.- including some of our endangered species.
I am aware of the law against feeding animals that are wild- and that it carries a heavy fine.
I do not know if feral cats are specifically included on the list of those animals not to be fed, but one must still consider that outdoor food stations will attract rats and various other critters as well.
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