From: clare@snyder.on.ca   
      
   On Sat, 02 Aug 2025 06:09:57 -0400, hubops@ccanoemail.com wrote:   
      
   >On Fri, 01 Aug 2025 23:49:37 -0400, Clare Snyder    
   >wrote:   
   >   
   >>On Tue, 29 Jul 2025 14:44:58 -0400, hubops@ccanoemail.com wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>On 29 Jul 2025 17:46:32 GMT, rbowman  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>On Tue, 29 Jul 2025 07:54:01 -0400, hubops wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>    You have much better shelters than we have here  !   
   >>>>> Ours are teeming with  _cats_  ..  and   worse yet - cat lovers.   
   >>>>> ..  but they   _do_   have good PR and advertising budgets.   
   >>>>>   Most of the dogs available are  hard-cases, to be kind.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>What do you have against cats? I've got a couple on the payroll. After the   
   >>>>hay field was mowed a couple of weeks ago I wasn't overrun by mice looking   
   >>>>for a new home and the cats looked happy.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>Now if I could only get them to do something about the magpies. I've seen   
   >>>>them sit there and watch the magpies eat their kibble. Pretty birds, but   
   >>>>songbirds they ain't and they get up early in the morning.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>I didn't have to go to a shelter. Around here put out a can of Friskies   
   >>>>and you've got a cat.   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>>  Cat-Lady   next door,  who volunteers at the Humane Society  -   
   >>>she can't understand why the rest of the neighbourhood   
   >>>are less-than-thrilled  with all her cats pooping in our gardens   
   >>>and flower beds.   Raccoons and oppossums are fond of her   
   >>>bowls of cat food  ...   critter smorg  !   
   >>>   John T.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >>Cats should NOT be outside. If you like your cat and want it to live a   
   >>long healthy life KEEP IT INSIDE - then it doesn't bother the   
   >>neighbors.   
   >>   
   >   
   >  Big  + 1.   
   > But in the case of my neighbour - she does the  catch-fix-release   
   >program for feral cats  ..  which does have some merit  ..  as far as   
   >helping to prevent several new litters every year.   
   >   
   >A 2020 doc about the cat problems in Cornwall Ontario  :   
   >   
   >https://www.tvo.org/video/documentaries/running-wild-the-cats-o   
   -cornwall-feature-version   
   >   
   >    John T.   
   >   
   Good way to handle feral cats, for sure. My daughter fosters cats for   
   a cat rescue. They alkl get "fixed" and when you adopt a cat you agree   
   to restrict it to indoors.   
      
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