The local Humane Society has a capacity of only 30 cats and they currently have 60, so they aren't accepting them at this time. I would have to get a hell of a good discount to keep paying for all of these critters spaying and neutering. And the first problem with getting three (beautiful calico) females living outside spayed would be to catch them! They're wild. The same goes for a couple of the males that are hanging around.
I'm much too young to be an old "cat lady!"

If you got close enough to know they are females, you got close enough to catch them ;) A food trap would be the best way, and if you call an exterminator they will tell you which works best. The ones we got were Havahart, something like that. It was for squirrels, but we kept catching the neighborhood cats instead.

If you stop taking them into the house natural attrition will take care of some of them.

There's always this solution.

An Israeli friend tells me that cats are considered vermin rather than pets over there.

So much for the Middle East thing.

And in Rome, they are considered a national treasure, so go figure. Rome is covered with pigeons and feral cats, and for centuries the people have fed them proudly.

Masturbate :lol:







But seriously, there isn't a lot you can do. In one of the old neighborhoods I lived in people would dump their cats all the time and it seemed like it never went away. If you could go to a veterinary school and they would fix (spay/neuter) for free, that would help. If you can catch them at least. Good luck!

Do the feral cats eat the pigeons?

Might be a win-win.

Tonight I watched a feral cat in the now-harvested cornfield across from the front porch at work. He diligently sidled his way through the stubble of stalks, testing the wind, advancing on his prey ... you could actually see the thoughts going through his little kitty mind as he thought the better of going after a Canada Goose.

:lol2: :rotflol: :vomitblu: :lol2: :rotflol:

I laughed so hard... but it was sick at the same time... I don't know what to think!!! :lol:

It just means that you have the same kind of hard time fitting into "polite company" that the rest of us do.

Good thing to know about myself I guess... :cool:

I haven't gotten that close, but all calicos are females.

I dunno, maybe it's a food chain - the Romans feed the cats and then they BOTH eat the pigeons. but only while the tourists aren't watching :yum:

Just curious... how does everyone know that? I have only heard this once before. I guess I am really sheltered. :blush: The cellar dwellars will keep me informed (I hope at least). :worried:

I have also heard something about the male cats having barbs on their penii... is this true, or was someone bullshitting me?

Having been a cat lover forever, I've always heard that too. I've been around many, many cats and have never found a male calico. In grade school, a friend's grandpa offered us $100.00 each if we could find him one. That was a lot of $$ to us back then! We had kept asking "why" and "how do you know there are no male calicos?" and I guess he got tired of trying to explain!
These are beautiful calicos - maybe if I offered them to somebody to make beautiful unique mittens, PETA would come calling!!

And...as many cats as I've been around, I've never check a single penii for any barbs!! Sorry...

Give them away as prizes at the race track. ;)