Feral Cat Help! (kittens, eating, food, dogs)

[Foodmuse]

I am trying to find an way to help feral cats in my area. All I can find is sites that push adoption.

What about the problem? Are there programs for this issue or not?
I live in Carlisle Pa.

[rubytue]

Check out Alley Cat Allies. They are a national trap/fix/release advocacy group. Their website has a ton of information, and they might be able to put you in touch with local folks working on it.

[sweetana3]

Another group is IndyFeral - Welcome to IndyFeral's Home on the Web!. Lots of good information. There are a lot of other groups all around.

[ray5809]

Please sit down and really think. Kind hearted people set up places for feral cats to live. First they do not have shelter. They suffer every time it rains and bakes in the hot sun finally the lucky ones freeze to death in the winter snow and ice. Next is trying to find food and water. As they get older the young cats get the food while the slowly starve to deat. Not to mention the environment. The native wild life are hunted down and are eaten alive. Go near one of the colonies. It is very quiet. No birds, nothing alive except skinny starving cats.

The humain thing to do is give them Tylenol. Buy som cheap canned cat food and a bottle of Tylenol. Do not worry Tylenol is deadly to cats only! Tylenol will not hurt dogs, birds, or even rabbits. Crush the Tylenol. Put two teaspoons of crushed Tylenol in each can of cat food. Then lace the fans where the feral cats hunt and live. The cat will enjoy it's first full meal in months. After the cat finished eating will painlessly go to sleep. After an hour of reap sleep the cats heart will stop.
Some uniformed people will say it is cruel and call you a monster. Who is the real monster? The person who compashonly put the poor suffering feature painlessly out of it' suffering or the monster who condemned the innocent cat to a life of cruel suffering and an eventualy slow painful live of hardship suffering and starvation?

[steven_h]

Originally Posted by Foodmuse

I am trying to find an way to help feral cats in my area. All I can find is sites that push adoption.

What about the problem? Are there programs for this issue or not?
I live in Carlisle Pa.

Unfortunately, and a trajedy, feral cats have it pretty rough. Here in Los Angeles more than 20,000 cats are destroyed every year. Cats have 300% less chance of being adopted than a dog (6500 destroyed every year)

People who neglect to have their animals fixed, and allow their cats to roam the streets at night are to blame mostly.

I have three cats that were saved from the streets, and fortunately, for us and them, they were either abandoned or young when we saved them, because they adapted to being house cats very quickly. On the other hand, about twenty years ago we saved a mother and her two kittens, who had become wild. The mother remained an awesome pet and she stayed with us until she passed after 14 years. The kittens remained wild, though would show up to eat, and sometimes sleep, but eventually moved on, though we did manage tio get them both fixed. We'd see one of them roaming around the area for years.

We are actually caring for three ferals now, but they remain outside. They have plenty of food, water and shelter when they want it, however they'll most likely never become pets. One has a chance, but we haven't seen him in four days, so we are a tad concerned.

I wish I had good news for you, but I simply do not. The cat population has exploded, and is overwhelming the systems that once might have saved them.