| |  |  |  | How Do I? | Online Services | | | | | Summary Some Final Thoughts While the welfare of feral cats depends on the willingness of people to deal with them responsibly and intelligently, the future of an endangered species is dependent on precisely the same thing. Neither of these causes is furthered where well-intentioned groups with conflicting approaches to the problem seek a judicial resolution.  This is particularly true of the feral cat control dilemma, because the problem can be effectively addressed by means of concerted local effort.
As such, the intelligent and responsible thing for citizens, conservationists, cat lovers, and bird lovers to do is turn their attention to finding workable solutions specific to their localities. Whether or not the law will treat feral cats as wild animals, there is reason to do so in practice. A feral cat is just another factor within its ecosystem just as wild squirrels, deer, and birds are. The problem is not the fact that they are cats, but rather that we do not see cats as we see squirrels, deer, and birds — as wild animals. People must confront cat overpopulation both by refusing to create more wild cats in the first place through abandonment, spay and neutering of their pets, and by preventing the inevitable cat population expansion which occurs where human food is made abundantly available to cats. | |
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