Comments by Dave729 - Las Vegas Sun

Comments by user: Dave729

Posted on: She’d ‘legalize’ feral cats to save them

I'm an animal control officer in New Jersey and have been one for over 32 years. I have seen TNR tried several times and it has always failed because the number of cats has gotten out of hand and created problems for the neighbors. The reason TNR will not work on a large scale is due to the number of feral cats vs. the number of volunteers and money available. Using the numbers quoted in the article, if you have 200,000 feral cats in the area, and it costs an average of $67.50 to TNR a cat ( the average of $85 and $50) than you would need $13,500,000 to TNR all the cats. Thats 13.5 MILLION dollars! The possible grant available is only $200,000. You would be $13.3 million dollars short. And then you would need volunteers to feed and care for 200,000 cats each day. If it only costs a nickel to feed a cat for a day, you would need and additional $10,000 a day for food, or $3,650,000 a year. You will never come up with the money nor volunteers to control the feral cat population using TNR, so the problem will continue to grow. Goverments support TNR by volunteers because it doesn't cost them any money, it shuts up the animal rights people, and when it doesn't work, they can blame the cat advocates. Except by then, it will be someone elses problem because they will have moved on to bigger and better things.

(Suggest removal) 8/19/08 at 5:43 p.m.

Posted on: Mystery cat woman is on mission; what is it?

Another wacky cat feeder contributing to the feral cat over-population. At least the TNR people don't make the situation any worse. They don't make it any better either but at least it doesn't get worse. The woman is in serious need of counciling.

(Suggest removal) 8/19/08 at 11:24 a.m.