It is not okay for cats to kill all the neighborhood birds.

[heaven05]

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taken care of a feral cat colony for three years now. I get them spayed and neutered as I can trap them. I try to catch them to get rabies shots as we do have skunks in the neighborhood. I have a colony that has ranged from nine to nineteen cats. A couple of them don't get along with each other but water bottle breaks them up quickly, but no real killing of birds happens with this colony. How do I know? I have had one dropped off on front porch in the three years and one in the garage. No squirrels or rabbits. Wheezy, the opportunist cat from three houses down has killed couple of birds, they don't feed her much, leave out in the winter and I had her spayed after she had a litter in my garage. I have heating boxes constructed with heating pad for winter time in the garage and around the house under bushes and the like. I find if they are well fed, they DO NOT kill that gratuitously. My experience. My local humane society TNR program helps and I have a local vet that helps me also. All in all I have had a pretty good experience with my colony. Yes I have inside cats also.