>________________________________
> From: Lee Evans <moonsiste...@yahoo.com>
>To: "felvtalk@felineleukemia.org" <felvtalk@felineleukemia.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 5:31 PM
>Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Spaying advice
>
>
>Katherine, I understand your feelings. For reasons of ethics I don't enjoy
>trapping cats and having their reproductive organs removed. I wouldn't like
>to have that happen to me. On the other hand, I wouldn't like to be trapped
>and put into a gas chamber because there were too many humans and no one
>wanted to tolerate my particular type of human - alley human. So it's a toss
>up. We can't give every one of the 50,000 community cats here in San Antonio
>a vasectomy or hysterectomy because it would not stop the mating behavior and
>citizens of this city would still be overwhelmed by the howling and yowling
>and the attempts at mating. It wouldn't be cost effective. And I just
>couldn't teach my male cats to use condoms. There is no effective birth
>control pill for female animals other than human females and even the pill for
>humans it not 100% effective and even less of a percentage safe. There's no
>way to pill outdoor community cats either.
>
>The lesser of the evils and the one which I feel is healthiest for the cats,
>homed or community cats is neutering and spaying. But I think I understand
>your point of view also.
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>Spay and Neuter your cats and dogs and your weird relatives and nasty
>neighbors too!
>
>
>
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