DIY Emergency Housing for Feral and Stray Cats during Winter. Quick and easy.

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33. Cats are invasive species. The best we can do is trap then spay or neuter.

Feral cats have a short life span in most. https://www.peta.org/living/animal-companions/feral-cats/

"Andrew Rowan, former director of Tufts University’s Center for Animals and Public Policy, estimates that between 60 and 100 million homeless cats live in the United States. Many of these cats are feral or “wild” cats, the descendants of unaltered tame cats who were abandoned and gave birth to kittens who never had contact with humans. Although ferals are fearful of humans, they are still domesticated and ill-equipped to survive on their own. Feral cats do not die of “old age.” They are poisoned, shot, tortured by cruel people, attacked by other animals, or hit by cars, or they die of exposure, starvation, or highly contagious fatal diseases, such as rabies, feline AIDS, feline leukemia, and feline infectious peritonitis. In one feral cat colony, half of the 32 cats were shot by a man who claimed that they were “attacking” his children. Cats in another colony were shot with darts. A loose dog killed several cats in another colony."