07-28-2017, 06:54 PM
Feeding them is the problem. Feeding them is exactly the problem. Cats have been at large un-sterilized in Hawaii for two centuries. According to the math being pushed by Alley Cat Allies and the like they should have broken the billion mark after only 12 years. They didn't. The increases we are seeing today are due to increased feeding. They reached the limit determined by available food within a handful of years of arriving and have been bumping up against that limit ever since. We raise the limit when we dump a sack of kibble on the ground. We make more cat when we dump that kibble on the ground.
What do you mean "works"? Of course the problem is back. It never left. It lives next door with the people who own a cat. It never will leave until owning cats is illegal and such law is enforced. I'm not holding my breath.
Also this was on last night's news.
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/35991...-feed-them
ETA: Culling works for me and many other hands-on types as long as there isn't someone actually breeding them next door. A couple of years back I would see cats on my property and hear them fighting at night. More than once they jumped up and hit the bottom of my container while fighting. I trapped about 6. Most of them went to the Humane Society. A couple were so feral that I saw no point in burdening the system with them. Anyway I just saw a cat skulking around for the first time in a couple of years. If you have a grasp of reality you recognize that two years relatively cat free is pretty good results.
What do you mean "works"? Of course the problem is back. It never left. It lives next door with the people who own a cat. It never will leave until owning cats is illegal and such law is enforced. I'm not holding my breath.
Also this was on last night's news.
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/35991...-feed-them
ETA: Culling works for me and many other hands-on types as long as there isn't someone actually breeding them next door. A couple of years back I would see cats on my property and hear them fighting at night. More than once they jumped up and hit the bottom of my container while fighting. I trapped about 6. Most of them went to the Humane Society. A couple were so feral that I saw no point in burdening the system with them. Anyway I just saw a cat skulking around for the first time in a couple of years. If you have a grasp of reality you recognize that two years relatively cat free is pretty good results.