We have two bird feeders that I was filling with songbird mix bird food. Also have a suet holder. I stopped feeding them in June because they were being piggy-pigs and emptying the feeders within a day. I figured they should eat from nature in the warm months and I'll go back to filling the feeders when it gets cold. We also have a big stray cat problem . . . crazy cat lady and others keep feeding them and the cats keep breeding. I trap them and take them to the spca. . . . bird feeders attract birds, birds attract stray cats, stray cats go into baited traps . . . one less stray cat to reproduce.
No kill shelters around here do not take feral cats. As I said I have one that I try and take care of. I hate to have them put to sleep.
Me too, they didn't do anything wrong. One of them went after a kid and scratched him. Not worth the risk, imo. So I take them to the spca. They determine if the cats are adoptable or not . . . a few have been but most, not. One cat I caught I thought was a black and orange cat. Took him over . . . he was big and he was scared and thrashing about the cage. I put a blanket over the cage to help calm him . . when I got to the spca and saw his face I realized the orange was blood. Something -- a dog is my guess -- had that cat's face/head in it's mouth and that cat got away . . . with it's fur ripped off half it's face. Poor, poor thing . . . so sad.
