What you say is so true. TNR is the ultimate cruelty for cats and it places cats above any and all other wildlife. Feed stations become gathering grounds for every cat in the neighborhood, including those owned. They attract neighborhood punks who torture the cats and kill them. They attract wildlife into the neighborhoods and then many have to be killed for coming in. TNR is nothing more than hoarding, using the outside as a facility. These caregivers don't care if your child is allergic to cats and has to go to the hospital when all they did was play in their sandbox which the cats are using for their business. Caregivers leave friendly cats in the colony rather than spend what is necessary to adopt the cats into a home. Fight this movement, it hurts cats and it destroys wildlife.

Well said!

According to the Florida Fish & Game Commission, in Florida alone there is an estimated five million feral and stray cats, and they are breeding quicker than animal control can catch and kill them. I have tried very, very hard for over six months to get the Florida legislature to file a low cost_free spay/neuter bill, which I have only received promises from several members of the House and Senate, which they all renegged on their promises (what else is new).  Nobody filed anything.  I painfully with the reluctance of many counties got the cost of animal control for 2008 (some counties refused to supply me that information, fearing to disclose the cost of their dog pound) - it cost nearly $94 million dollars to run animal control - and this is just one year of operation, killing hundreds of thousands of dogs and cats, kittens and puppies throughout the State, simply due to irrresponsible owners. MOST DID NOT SPAY/NEUTER BECAUSE OF THE COST. The vet charges $250 per spay per cat, and even many low cost spay/neuter organizations, it's still too cost prohibitive ($70 per cat), so they won't bother. Many don't like the red tape involved, so they won't bother.  Compounding this problem, many believe in the old wives tales that "cats can fend on their own" so they dump kitty in the woods, or abandoned neighborhood, or apartment complexes hoping someone will adopt kitty, which they don't.  And they breed like cockroaches. I have even written to every single county commissioner in the entire State and BEGGED them to please contact their State law makers and URGE them to file this bill. Far too many have not. Despite their expense of animal control, many county commissioners simply failed to contact their law makers. It was a bother to them. Nobody cared. I have written to SPCAs and Humane Societies throughout the State of Florida. They, too have FAILED or REFUSED to contact their law makers. So nothing was filed. I can't even begin to tell you how many emails and petitions I issued.  I'm sorry the Florida law makers in both county and State level simply did NOT care.  I feel I they have let down the State, the countless stray and feral animals who will suffer abuse and slow painful death- and become victims of animal cruelty. There are many, many countless individuals who take delight torturing or killing animals, and shooting them with bebe guns.  Homeless animals have nobody to care for them. Nobody to protect them. They are vulnerable to all the wackos out there, and when a case is brought to law enforcement, it will cost the county THOUSANDS of dollars to investigate it. Like in Miami, FL, the teen who tortured and skinned alive dozens of cats and decorated their mutilated carcasses in people's yards.  Cats also become food for coyotes. More coyotes eat, the more they breed, and coyotes are vastly populating Florida and showing less fear of people - because they have an ample supply of food: Coyotes have been spotted with a dead cat in their jaws in Florida. And coyotes have snatched people's pets in front of their noses. Several cases in Hillsborough County not long ago. It's just a matter of time they will snatch someone's child or baby.  NOT an exaggeration.  I wrote this to Florida law makers - nobody cares. The counties don't care, the SPCAs and Humane Socieites don't care. People don't care. The IRONY of it is that this bill would NOT have cost the State of Florida a single dime. It would have collected funds from a voluntary check mark to donate a dollar toward low cost_free spay/neutering (that or voluntary check mark from renewing home owner's taxes).  This has been implimented in several states and it has reduced the numbers in pounds and killing them. BUT NOBODY CARES IN FLORIDA. And due to the bad economy, stray cats and dogs is going to escalate. BUT NOBODY CARES. ANIMALS ARE NOT IMPORTANT TO FLORIDA LAW MAKERS-and not even important to those organization who claim to care.

It's serious that the feral cat problem is a growing challenge because a number of organized cat enthusiasts are successfully promoting trap, neuter and release programs that usually perpetuate the existence of feral cat colonies.

The areas that have implemented TNR have shown a decline in feral cat populations. When your goal should be fewer cats, I don't know why you advocate trap and kill when it does not work. We have been trapping and killing for decades, obviously we need to try something else.

Organizations that promote this policy work to adopt, spay and neuter, and care for the cats for life. By opposing this plan you are blocking the organizations who are trying to fix the problem. The goal is not to have permanent colonies, but to phase out the existing cats after a generation.

Here is a link to some helpful cat-deterrent hints. http://www.bestfriends.org/nomorehomelesspets/pdf/...

Finally, cats are opportunistic hunters. If their stomachs are full of cat food, they don't kill other little creatures for food. In fact, in Newburyport, MA, TNR was so effective they now have a rodent problem.

The cat mafia doesn’t understand cats.  It believes the fairy tale it tells itself that cats kill only to eat and that when their stomachs are full they stop killing.  I find that amazing.  They flap their gums about cats, yet appear never to have been around cats.  Also, they measure “success” of Trap, Neuter and Re-Abandon by ANY decline over time.  For example, in the last decade the U. of Hawaii cat mafia has presided over a decline in the campus cat population for about 400 to about 300.  During those ten years the cats have kept killing endangered birds.  If the cats hadn’t been fed and vaccinated, there would be LESS than 300 today.  What amazes me most is that the cat mafia has convinced itself that euthanizing cats results in more cats than re-abandoning them and then maintaining their population and facilitating reproduction by feeding them in the wild.