The Feral Cat
Feral cats are created by people abandoning their animals, outdoor cats gone astray, or them breeding out of control creating more human weary cats. There is an estimated 5 million feral cats living in the states, most of which are untreated, unfixed, and breeding like crazy.
Feral Cat Coalition
In the past, to remedy the problem, there were mass killings of stray cats. Most ferals that get picked up by shelters and animal control are euthanized due to their inability to get adopted, due to agression, skittishness, and inability to live with humans. Kittens have a higher chance of being socialized, but its not often.
What is a Feral Cat?
A feral cat is a feline that has lost its domestication and reverted back to its normal, instinctual behavior. Even a strictly indoor cat can survive out there based on the natural inclinations of a feline. Over the course of centuries, not even domestication could wipe out their instinctual behavior.
The feral cat is never ending. A queen will birth her litter and teach them that humans are bad, to be weary of the large furless one, and then continue to breed and continue the cycle.
What can we do to help Feral Cat Communities?
Support your local TNR (Trap Neuter Release) program. What they do is go out, trap the feral cats and get them vacinated, spayed and marked and then released back to their area or relocated to a different location. This prevents the offset of continuous breeding.
When kittens are captured, they are kept to be adopted and socialized.
