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What cost are you referring to? Do you mean the funds a rescue uses to vaccinate and neutor? If a rescue org uses its funds for that purpose - thats why it exists. You may have a different value system that makes you feel that it isn't worth spending your own money on it, but that doesn't change that these groups exist to help people with problems like this with non-lethal population and disease control.
When I brought caught feral cats to the animal shelter I was met with hostility because they are over-run and have too many animals already. I could see that they were going to destroy these wild animals anyway. At that point we let the feral colony stick around but the damage the wreaked on the local possums, birds and general property damage had me thinking seriously about putting out bowls of anti-freeze. But if I'm not ponying up the cash, I don't know of any groups able to take care of it. And I'm in Silicon Valley with plenty of money and plenty of bleeding hearts.
I thought TNR was a good idea too but the point at which it works... %71 changes my mind. Makes sense with the size of litters and the frequency of them.
What cost are you referring to? Do you mean the funds a rescue uses to vaccinate and neutor? If a rescue org uses its funds for that purpose - thats why it exists. You may have a different value system that makes you feel that it isn't worth spending your own money on it, but that doesn't change that these groups exist to help people with problems like this with non-lethal population and disease control.
When I brought caught feral cats to the animal shelter I was met with hostility because they are over-run and have too many animals already. I could see that they were going to destroy these wild animals anyway. At that point we let the feral colony stick around but the damage the wreaked on the local possums, birds and general property damage had me thinking seriously about putting out bowls of anti-freeze. But if I'm not ponying up the cash, I don't know of any groups able to take care of it. And I'm in Silicon Valley with plenty of money and plenty of bleeding hearts.
I thought TNR was a good idea too but the point at which it works... %71 changes my mind. Makes sense with the size of litters and the frequency of them.