I think the "solution" in these instances, unfortunately, is not "spay and release," but rather "trap and euthanize." Some animal shelters offer cat traps that you can put in your backyard or wherever strays congregate. The cat gets trapped, and you take the trapped cat to a shelter to be euthanized. One by one.

Although I see the wisdom in this (eg, the cat problem will just perpetuate itself if left alone, and the life of a stray cat in West Philly must be far less than idyllic and maybe you're doing them a favor, etc.), I just couldn't bring myself to do this. Especially after we saved Mr. Hugs from The Street.

I think, by and large, spaying cats and releasing them back into the "wild" is too expensive to do on a mass scale.

CB

From: Kyle Cassidy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To keep this cromulent to university city, I should add that watson, aka "mr
hugs" was part of the west philly stray/abandoned cat community who I
brought in hoping to find his real owner. Had he been a lost/abandoned dog I
probably would have done the same thing, but west philadelphia doesn't have
a wild dog problem.


I'd be very interested in participating in some sort of _solution_ to the
wild cat problem in this part of the city, if anybody has any advice -- I
think "spay and release" is probably the way to go, but I don't know
anywhere that will do that for free.

(if you're interested, you can read my travel diary, "Letters from
Bucharest" which does doccument the stray dog problem in Romania:
http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/pix/travel/bucharest-2001/1.html)

kc

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