Help! Taming 6 Month Old Feral!

awesomecat

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I know people are not going to like my saying this. Buy why? Why catch ferals? I took my cat Buster in but I wanted her. Why catch feral cats for the sake of catching them?

Dont get me wrong. I LOVE cats. I love cats more than people. But why must we catch them. Why not leave them alone. All these cats in shelters. Cats arent dogs. They are one of the few domesticated species that can survive if returned to the wild. Cats do not need us. Yes I know feral cats have a shorter life. But what we do with cats is the same as trying to catch all rabbits and putting them in shelters and homes. A pet rabbit does live longer than an outdoor rabbit. So do many other species if taken into homes or zoos.

In fact I am not even fully in support of the trap and fix idea either. Why? Why do that? How many other species do we do that to? Is it because some arrrogant human just doesnt like the idea of stray cats in their neighborhood. Cats do not need us. Even strays can make it on their own. I think we should just leave them be. Many of them are probably better off without us.
 

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I think I can understand why one wouldn't deliberately catch and try to re-domesticate a feral cat. Most of us who have done this, though, have done so because the cat came to us.

But I am in full support of TNR programs. Returning a cat to his or her area after fixing it and then supporting it with food and shelter is the only humane solution to a problem people created. The cats reproduce to the point where there is not enough for and territory for them all. Then terrible things happens - fights with horrible injuries, starvation, etc.

It is akin to people tearing down the Amazon and then being surprised when the animals seek shelter in the populated areas. Or the elephants come into villages, seeking food, when their forests are cut down.

PEOPLE created this problem. They domesticated the cat eons ago for their own purposes and now have decided the cat doesn't need them. But cats are domesticated, whether we think so or not. And with that comes a responsibility.
 
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