The Times News today ran a story entitled “Petition to stop cat feeding ban grows.” A Humane Society Officer Donna Crum has started a petition to pass legislation for the protection of feral cats in Pennsylvania.
I am so tired of arguing this issue. Just in case you missed it, here is a copy of a letter I sent to Bruce Frassinelli of the Times News.
In a recent editorial you defended a compromise plan in Palmerton involving feral cats. The plan calls for a trap, neuter and release program. You said it was a “workable strategy with which everyone can live.”
Everyone, perhaps, except the song birds, voles, salamanders, and other small mammals, reptiles, and amphibians that will be killed by the released cats. Cats are natural predators, but they are not natural to the ecosystem, nor do they cease hunting even after they are fed. They are among the leading causes of the decline in bird populations.
The plan ignores other species. Releasing cats, neutered or not, is not an environmentally responsible policy.
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