I had no idea there was such a thing.

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When I get home from work, I will devote myself to getting as much "Feral Cat" as I can.  

Has it been a year already???  Time sure flies.

I have a feral cat.  My advice - get something that's been socialized.  We've had her for 8 years, she's still useless as a pet.

The irony.  The 2AM wakeup of a couple ferals fighting outside the bedroom window made me want to reach out and touch them with something more than a ham radio.  

cheers to the wild pussies out there

me and my 22cal air gun are doing our best to fix this.. asap

boo this man

feral cats... hmm, reminds me of a couple of my exs

Feral cat colonies can be a problem. Having spent years in cat rescue let me offer a couple suggestions.

- Spay / neuter your pet. Just because Tom ain't knocking up anything in the house doesn't mean he ain't hitting that Persian a block over.

- TNR. Trap Neuter Release. This method of feral colony control works very well and is humane. How this works is that traps such as Havaheart are set out with tuna as bait. A cat will sell its soul for tuna. Set out as many as possible. Wait overnight. Early the next morning retrieve the traps and bring them to the vet. There they are spayed or neutered. To mark that the cat is sterile a portion of an ear is cut off. This is a nationwide sign to animal control authorities and to animal rescue groups. That evening the cats are released at the same location where they were trapped from.

Average lifespan of a feral cat is 7 years. Between the hard lifestyle, predators, and lack of medical care that's what your going to get. Fluffy at home can easily double that. In doing a TNR to a feral colony you will see a reduction of the colony size in less than 6 months. Give it a couple years and you're down to a fraction of what it was before.

I've been on several TNR expeditons. (Great way to meet chicks by the way.) We have a relationship with LSU veterinary where when the students are at the point of doing their first surgeries we do the trapping. All the practice patients are ferals. Students get to practice the veterinary art, we get free spay/neuters. Win all around.

Plug yourself into the local rescue groups for more information on TNR.

Truth.

From the time kittens are weaned you have about a 4 week window. Get them within that window and they can be socialized and become your friend for life. Outside that window and they will become feral. The longer the time the more feral they become. It will get to the point in a short period of time that they will never become socialized and are useless as a pet. At 6 months of age it's a lost cause.

In remembrance of all the Silent Kitties

If we realized how many millions of native songbirds, rabbits, squirrels, etc., that are killed by feral cats each year, we would T/E... trap/euthanize. I like the native wildlife, and will not tolerate feral cats. After all, that's why God invented 30-round magazines.

No doubt.   I have a pair I brought in at the ragged edge of that timeline.   When we moved here, mother (she was obviously abandoned, not feral) and litter were living in a storage shed and one by one they were being picked off by predators until these two were the last ones.   Its kind of funny, when I brought them in they took to the dogs real quick, and to me because I have handled them a lot - but they will hide from other people until they have been around for a certain amount of time, there is no imprint telling them that people are OK (and goodness knows there is no good reason that should come naturally to them).

But they are fun cats, each has his own games he likes to play and of course they are very attached to one another.

I have had them for about a year now and they are fat & happy.    They are well settled so I have tried to experiment with letting them go out, but they just sit in the doorway and look, and they refuse to go outside.

Lubbock has a ton of them…Tunces just loves the suppressed 300 BLK with subs. Cashes in all 9 in a matter of seconds. Handy when they are on the dumpster because they fall right in.

all of those creatures are inferior to cats, and get justly dominated

damn forgot my rabbit persona again