FERAL CATS AND YOU
Trap-Neuter-Return does not work ~ a vaccine shot for rabies must then be followed by a one year booster vaccination, followed by a vaccination every three years. trap the same cat two more times ~ are you people crazy ~ Trap Neuter Relocate is a much better idea ~ no one wants a feral cat colony in their backyard and who's going to pay for this and who's going to feed themThese are just the diseases these invasive species cats have been spreading to humans, not counting the ones they spread to all wildlife. THERE ARE NO VACCINES against many of these, and are in-fact listed as bio-terrorism agents.
They include: Campylobacter Infection,
Cat Scratch Disease,
Coxiella burnetti Infection (Q fever),
Cryptosporidium Infection,
Dipylidium Infection (tapeworm),
Hookworm Infection,
Leptospira Infection,
Giardia,
Plague,
Rabies,
Ringworm,
Salmonella Infection,
Toxocara Infection,
Toxoplasma.
[Centers for Disease Control, July 2010] Sarcosporidiosis,
Flea-borne Typhus,
Tularemia,
and Rat-Bite Fever can now also be added to that list.Google for: Cat-Transmitted Fatal Pneumonic Plague, for a fun one.
Yes, the plague is alive and well today, and BEING SPREAD BY CATS.
People have already died from cat-transmitted plague.Or Google for: Oregon man suffering plague
Or: Taos cat has plague
Or: (hundreds of others).Totally disproving that oft-spewed LIE cat-lickers tell about more cats in Europe could have prevented the plague. Cats themselves carry and transmit the plague all on their own. Now add in the fact that cats attract rodents right to them if the cats infect rodents with their Toxoplasma gondii parasite
(Google for: Parasite Hijacks the Mind of Its Host
and you'll see a plague the likes of which have never existed before. Especially when you breed super-strains of plague with your irresponsible use of antibiotics.
Adopting or approaching any unknown cat that's been outdoors is just playing Russian Roulette.
The net is flooded with similar examples every week. THOUSANDS of people must endure, pay for (out of their own pocket) the painful and expensive (more than $1000) rabies shots if they get scratched or bitten by any stray or feral cat, especially if that cat cannot be trapped again to destroy it and test it for rabies. Stray-cat feeders are guaranteeing this, by training and teaching these cats to approach humans for food. These wild animals then lashing out by biting or scratching at any hands that try to touch or pet the now seemingly-friendly "cute kitty". Two recent cases even report where rabid cats entered a home-owner's unlocked pet door, and another where the cat even came right through their ceiling in search of human-supplied foods. One attack so bad that the family required hospitalization.
Even vaccinating your cat against rabies won't prevent it from finding the nearest rabid bat dying on the ground to rip it to shreds for its daily cat's play-toy. Then bringing back a mouthful or claws full of fresh rabies virus to you, your family, neighbors, other pets, or other animals. ANY cat, due to their need to sink their teeth into anything that moves, if allowed outdoors can transmit rabies to others, vaccinated or not.
If ANY cats have been roaming free and you don't know their vaccination history, they MUST, BY LAW, be quarantined for a MINIMUM of 6 MONTHS before those cats can be transferred for sale or adoption. This is a requirement of ALL wild-harvested animals intended for any sector of the pet-trade.
If an animal has already contracted rabies giving it a vaccine is already too late. This is precisely why uneducated TNR practitioners have caused rabies outbreaks in so many areas.
(Google for: TNR Carlsbad NM Pets Destroyed, for a fun one.
Over 50 well cared-for pets and even more livestock all had to be destroyed because of a TNR colony.)The incubation period for rabies runs from 21 to 240 days (to 11 months), with one rare case taking 6 YEARS. The usually required 10-14 day holding period after an animal bite is ONLY meant to detect if the animal was infectious at the time of the bite, but DOES NOT prove the animal does not have rabies. Which might eventually surface 11 months later.
If you adopt out ANY pet that's been taken from outdoors, you better be damned sure you're not giving someone an animal that is harboring rabies or any other many deadly diseases that you've not tested for. Because if you do? I hope they sue you ALL so hard and deep that NONE of you ever recover from it for the rest of your sorry lives.
Rayanne From NPR comments 2015 2 years ago
The residents of West Pasco have nowhere to take cats. On my street alone in the Elfers area, 3 adjacent neighbors moved and left their cats behind. Another neighbor died and the authorities went in to retrieve his body and let all 8 of his cats out without rounding them up. Now there is a colony behind the houses across the street. Pasco County's solution is to implement a Trap Neuter and Return TNR program called Spay Pasco but the only flaw is they rely on citizens to do the trapping, neutering and returning. Citizens in Pasco County are complacent and most don't care or some result in shooting them. I alone, working and gone 12 hours a day, managed to buy a humane trap, take them to one of only a handful of participating vets, and get them neutered and returned them to the colony across the street. But, most average households will not take such measures. I am a cat lover and the TNR idea is a good one if it works, but it is not working for Pasco County. I can't even get the non-working people across the street to take them to the vet even when I offer to pay the 10 dollars per cat fee through the Spay Pasco Program.
I am sick of the numerous dead cats on the sides of the roads, or cats coming across my yard that are burned, cut, abscessed, diseased and suffering. I like cats but imagine the people who are sick of it who don't even like cats. I do know of a few. One co-worker of mine who lives on Massachusetts St. in NPR told me he has probably drove 100s of cats to another area and dumped them. Of course he is exaggerating, but he does it. Why? The reason is because there is nowhere to take them. When callous people move or no longer want them, they leave them behind and the foreclosure crisis has exasperated this. I don't want cats put to sleep as much as the next person, but if Pasco County's only solution is TNR, then they need to have County employees on staff who will do it, and also continuously monitor their colonies and health.
The TNR program is a good concept but nothing but a joke in Pasco County. How do I know all this? Because when I tried to get help for the colony across the street in 2013, I contacted our representatives and spoke to various agencies. I was even referred to different TNR volunteer groups who never showed up, or (she lost her phone), or the group no longer existed. I was referred to Hillsborough who was supposed to send a TNR truck to help and they never showed up, and various repeated calls were of little use.
In 2013 House Bill 1121 was approved for the TNR Program but at that time, Julie Wraithmell, director of wildlife conservation for Audubon, disputed that TNR will not reduce the number of cats. She said people will abandon cats in the areas where the felines congregate and also said neutering efforts don't get to all cats, SPTimes Mar 20, 2013This is absolutely correct as the numbers of stray cats and lack of TNR volunteers along with the general public’s non-participation is resulting in more of a problem, not a solution. I feel sorry for the cats that end up in Pasco County, strays that at one time had homes. This county does not care nor offer any solutions for residents at all. And, if you try to take cats to Pinellas Animal Services they will not take out-of-county cats. The Humane Society of Pinellas and the SPCA of Tampabay have a waiting list requiring previous vaccinations meeting criteria. If a story was finally done about the county policies regarding stray cats and how the Animal Services, and SPCA's doors where closed to them, and bring light this issue, then maybe we can get the County Government to take a look at the their policies.
It is now a year later and the colony across the street, the one that I tried desperately to get fixed, is now grown with new "teenager" and kittens. The people feeding them do not care. No body cares. I tried to call the only Vet in my area, Pasco Animal Hospital and they no longer do Trap Neuter and Return after 5PM. Since I work 7:30 to 6:30, there is no other option except they will just keep procreating. SPAY PASCO does not work.
Google for: rabid cat adopted wake county
That Cuddly Kitty Is Deadlier Than You Think
Trap, Neuter, and Release: Bad for Cats, Disaster for Birds
Another example (of thousands),
Google for:wfla.com/2016/08/01/8-investigates-state-claims-feral-cat-colonies-pose-public-health-hazard
Doug Barton
New Port Richey FL
anolog94@gmail.com
JUST THOUGHT YOU STRAY-CAT-FEEDERS WOULD LIKE TO KNOW