I have the ABC as my home page and just had a quick look to see if anything was happening in the world and there is an item on the kangaroo problem in Canberra where they are proposing to deliver contraceptives via darts. Would that be something that could be used for feral cats? The link is: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-17/contraceptive-darts-could-end-roo-culling-controversy/6324286 Sonja
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TNR doesn’t address the number of animals that feral cats kill each day nor that they continue to spread toxo to animals who aren’t able to deal with it as long as they live. It might work ok in the inner city (maybe) but it’s not the answer to anywhere where there are animals that are native. Storm On 17 March 2015 at 12:32, Sonja Ross < sonja.ross7@gmail.com> wrote:
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My understanding is that the trap neuter release concept is huge in the US due to animal welfare activists, but has never proven effective. If someone has links to articles that prove or disprove that I’d certainly be interested. Sent from my iPhone
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Thanks for the responses. Peter’s explanation is closer to what I had in mind. I do wonder if darts could be delivered into the animal, say side on, when it couldn’t be cleanly killed. It would probably also be expensive! Sonja
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A lead implant is more effective. Carl Clifford
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If you can dart a cat you could shoot it! A lethal dart might be a good idea. Anthea Fleming On 17/03/2015 10:09 AM, Sonja Ross wrote:
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I guess the idea is that you gradually neuter the cat population, and while you’re doing that, the cats are maintaining their territories so they aren’t simply replaced by younger cats as they would if they were killed. Then when you’ve done them all, they start dying of natural causes. It’s called TNR (trap-neuter-release) and is used in some places to control feral cat colonies. According to this page, it’s only effective if 75-80% of the population is neutered, and if there’s “virtually no imigration into the colony”: http://feral.typepad.com/feral_thoughts/2008/09/trap-neuter-and.html Peter Shute
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Dear all Neutering cats will certainly help with the spread of cats but they will remain a killing machine, despite being unable to reproduce. Cheers Chris Christine Melrose cmelrose099@gmail.com
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