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We’re going to go out on a limb here and say that any plan for dealing with community cats that includes rounding them up and killing them is based on an idea that needs updating. These catch-and-kill plans don’t work (at least not for long) because they ignore the fact that as long as people keep allowing their cats to breed, and keep dumping their unwanted cats, cat colonies will keep re-establishing themselves, year after year after year. A couple of cats, then a couple dozen, then more — and it’s time for the great round-up again.

Because we’re faced with a never-ending supply of cats, the old idea of mass killings cries out for an alternative, one that lessens the impact of these cats on neighborhoods and on their prey while dealing with them in the most humane way possible. How can we, as cat lovers, settle for anything less?