Stray Cats (Brookhaven, Lake Grove, Grove: store, eat, suburban)
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If you call animal services, will they take them? Street cats are an invasive species. They do need to be eradicated. Even if they are spayed/neutered, they will still hunt natives species for as long as they live.
If you call animal services, will they take them? Street cats are an invasive species. They do need to be eradicated. Even if they are spayed/neutered, they will still hunt natives species for as long as they live.
100% false. No towns deal with feral/stray cats. My neighborhood is very small and had ferals. No one left out water or a thing to eat every one used there 2 or 3 car garages so didn’t have a warm place. The cat lady died and for a year others fed them then they stopped. Used to see them all over now we think there is only 4-5 left. Some one trapped them and got them fixed. Guess the rest died. They are hard to get rid of unless everyone is on board. My pvc fence has no bars across them the cats couldn’t jump the fence and they can’t dig into pvc to climb. They used to use a close tree but we wrapped it some ant climber stuff kept them all out.
100% false? They are indeed invasive species that decimate native populations, particularly birds.
The part about calling animal services is 100% false. No town On LI deals with ferals and strays. They def invasive those F ers used to crap on my lawn all the time. They killed all the rabbits and chipmunks.
There are a ton of non-profits on Long Island to contact. Google it and start calling. Hopefully they can get adopted out to people that will keep them as indoor cats. IMHO I believe domestic cats should be indoors or contained in an enclosed "catio" when outside.
Don't just kill them, stop feeding them, stop housing them. They are essentially your property. You should have also sought medical care for them or you should have sought a better solution if you were not willing to do all that you should have been doing to care for the animals.
Before the settlers came to Long Island and the area became suburbanized, we used to have members of the Mustelidae family (weasels, mink, martens, etc.) who used to easily climb trees and wipe out bird nests, not to mention what they did to the bird themselves. Or squirrels and rabbits for that matter.
They make cats look like amateurs, so all this about cats "decimating" bird populations is greatly exaggerated. Certainly, cats have an impact but probably a far lesser impact then humans. Here on Long Island for example, every time there is a major storm, more and more people keep cutting down trees. Parts of the South Shore in particular, is treeless.
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