Struggling to leash feral felines

Booming population prompts officials to push vaccination, neutering program

http://www.boston.com/news/local/art...feral_felines/

Katie

While I LOVE seeing stories like this one, where an ACO is taking the lead to get TNR programs enacted, I wish they would use a different spin to get people on board. That last quote, "It's time to get control of the problem before someone gets hurt." And the comments about their concern about rabies. Considering only one case of rabies in the past 10 years or so has been attributed to "possibly" having come from a cat in the US, the threat of these ferals having rabies is so slim. But it could just be the spin they are using to get people on board with the program. I could just see it backfiring and leading to "if they are such a threat to people, let's just exterminate them...."

Heidi...I agree with you..the slant is all wrong. At least they are open to TNR.

Katie

It seems somewhat ironic:

If there's 100-300 cats, then you can have a TNR program implemented because people freak if they think cats are getting killed en masse and it becomes a news item. But if it's a few cats or groups in isolated areas, people seem to have less of a problem with putting them to sleep.

There's almost an advantage to having a larger colony.