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I was thinking about this post last week. We stopped at the home of a coworker of my husband's. This guy lives in the country and rents space. When we drove up there were about 12-15 cats, all of varying sizes/ages ...from kittens to full sized adults....on the porch. The man said they're all feral and he's been feeding them (and now, of course, they are his "friends"!) We spoke about the "catch and release" program I'd read about here. He said he called the local shelter to see about having the cats spayed and neutered...and they wanted a donation of $50 per cat. Whew! A person could never afford that, and you certainly couldn't do one or two at a time, because the others would just keep breeding. I'm not even sure of an answer here. I know shelters can't just do the neutering for free.
And of course I'm also wondering.....how many feral cats one area can hold before the animals die of from starvation, disease sets in, etc.
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