Originally posted by YellowLabLover
Maybe trapping them humanely euthanizing (done at vet center or humane society) them would be a better option!?
And if feral cats are as big a problem as you say, hunting them or trapping and euthanizing an entire colony will only allow another colony to move into it's place and start all over. When the population can be controled through spaying/neutering, the colony will die out on it's own within 2-3 years. If people would feed the feral cats then they wouldn't have to prey on the native wildlife as much.
I used to work at an auto parts warehouse that had a feral colony outside. The workers would always bring me a litter of kittens since I was the animal person of the shop, but at the same time (unknown to me) there was a woman taking care of the colony by feeding them everyday and having them trapped, fixed, released. By me taking the kittens and her fixing the adults, together within a year we had the population under control and eventually the cats will die out on their own naturally. (Any tame ones were taken out of the colony to find a home.) There are ways to handle situations like this, but mass slaughter isn't the answer, that's just the lazy solution for the actions of irresponsible pet owners who didn't spay/neuter and keep their pets indoors.