That's the theory. But if you don't neuter enough of them, then when the
neutered cats die from natural causes, they'll still get replaced, and they'll
still have been there hunting for that whole time. Which still works out to a
waste of time.
If you're trying to neuter every feral cat in the outback, how do you make sure
you've got them all? How do you tell which ones you've already done? At least
with shooting and poisoning you can tell that for sure.
Peter Shute
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Stent
> Sent: Tuesday, 17 March 2015 12:38 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] A different way for feral cats ???????
>
> 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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