fun night, trapped a dozen feral cats to get neutered. although TNR is certainly no long-term solution, it will hopefully reduce the rampant kitten factory my neighbors have going…

Of course, we live in this “civilized” age, where any focus on the original problem has been so distorted that now, torture is much more “acceptable” practice. But this is not to be a surprise, as we’ve lost our “humanity” quite some time ago, (or maybe we are just realizing it?)

Many people allege that TNR programs are torture, because TNR first cuts off food supply, then traps the hungry animals, next performs a barbaric spay/neuter surgery, and finally releases the animal, still in shock, back into their nightmare of nonstop harassment by crazy dogs and other feral cats, super fast car drivers, crazy people feeding the cats poison, parasites and disease running around everywhere, and eventually some violent, painful, horrible death…

and how many of you old-schools remember those hundreds of cats coming from that old neighbors’ place on Manuel Lake Road… those nasty things would terrorize my mother…

so out of a dozen trapped, nine cats were will feral, so they went to the vet to get neutered/spayed and a little bit of their ear clipped off for ID purposes… the other three cats were fixed, no collar, likely abandoned previous pets. they were released, and their “fixed” friends come back tomorrow morning.

for the record, I state again that trap-neuter-release is by no stretch any kind of solution to the bigger problem. if anything the numbers show, this Phoenix area TNR program neutered about 7,500 cats last year. The feral cat population in phoenix is estimated at over a half million.

i think the whole situation is disgusting. it’s despicable how truly low people can go…

there’s a time to turn the other cheek, a time to take it to court, and a time to get the shotgun and defend your life… what time is it?

So I’m beyond annoyed by these elderly neighbors across the street feeding their herd of feral cats… Probably the only thing keeping them alive (both the old fogeys and their fucking cats) is how these people “look after” these straggly mangy mass-reproducing menaces. Kittens just about every week, cat shit everywher…e, the fucking cat fleas are driving me and the dogs insane, and just a few hours ago, I found (the dogs found) another mangled-up cat fight victim (another cat) that had died in the side yard.

The city of Phoenix is completely nonresponsive but good God help you if you have one flippin stray weed on your property, and I certainly don’t mean the good kind… I’ve even been considering learning how to neuter and spay cats. Or perhaps getting into the import/export business. It seems China has a huge population of cat-eaters according to all the recent news re the protests over stray cats being sold in markets for food. Funny how people don’t even think twice about exterminating hundreds of thousands of these poor creatures when the Olympics are coming to town.

So I’m thinking this is a perfect import/export business. There’s already high demand thanks to the shortage of strays in China courtesy of the Olympic killing committee. Plus I’ve got the supply covered — according to Maricopa County Animal Control, there’s a population of over 500,000 feral cats in the Phoenix area. I wonder what the city of Phoenix would have to say if I got a cargo container dropped off in the driveway, and I just started filling it up with those cute purring furballs.