A Michael Broad Blog
It’s been estimated there are approximately 2,500 feral cats in the city of Prince Rupert. The SPCA is planning to switch the method of trapping used from humane traps to drop traps. Prince Rupert, British Columbia SPCA branch manager Amy Stacey has announced she’s working with her staff and TNR volunteer coordinator Ashley Johnson to …
Fljótsdalshérað is a municipality located in eastern Iceland. It is the largest municipality in the country by area. The biggest town in the municipality is Egilsstaðir, with a population of 2,300. They’ve recently made the news (and not in a good way) when the decision was made to set traps and kill wild (feral) …
North Hempstead is a town on Long Island. The town has a lot of feral cats needing help and a cat shelter to help with the overall cat population. They’re the only town out of 13 on the island not to have a facility people can bring their cats to. They also have what …
This article is a discussion on the ‘vacuum effect’ and feral cats. I invite those of you active (or retired) with real TNR (trap, neuter, return) experience to comment on whether your colony cats keep other cats run off, or, in the case of removed colonies, did new cats take their place. Studies show …
The feral cat vacuum effect means that feral cats will repopulate an area after the removal of the existing cats because they are there because a source of food exists at that location.
There is a double whammy effect when a country has a policy of killing unwanted cats. If the cats killed are feral cats – and almost all trapped feral cats are killed – other feral cats move into the space vacated by the killed cats. This is the well known vacuum effect. So, killing …
