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A different way for feral cats ???????

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Subject: A different way for feral cats ???????
From: Bill Stent <>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:38:08 +1100
My understand was that sterilising a cat and releasing it (or better still,
sterilising it with some sort of dart) is much more efficient in medium to
long term population control than simply shooting it dead.

If you shoot it, another cat takes its place, with an overall effect on the
population of zero (that is, a total waste of time and effort).

But if you sterilise it and relese it, the cat continues defending its
territory and keeping others at bay for some years. This would result in a
much more effective population crash, I would think.

The more scientific or research-based contributors might like to comment
please.

Bill
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