IMO true ferals should be altered and released back to the wild, hopefully with someone to feed them on a regular basis.Originally posted by leslie flenner
not sure what your website is about exactly. Just want to emphasize re: ferals and no kill shelters are not doing them any favor. I had to endure seeing ferals caged year after year after year. Only to eventually be kicked out to be "floor cats" but still not adoptable and sick. They'd pick up the ringworm and all the upper respiratories but could no longer be medicated. I also witnessed very sick cats being treated medically beyond death. In other words, ferals that had eye damage, internal damage, broken bones, you name it and the owner of the shelter insisted on medically treating them even when the vets said it was cruel to keep the cat alive. And us workers had to watch them suffer in pain.
So, you want info re: ferals, the best we can do for them is find them foster homes where they will be socialized (or not). The truely ill and battered and broken ones are better left to God and the best thing we can do is to help them get to God. I am very serious about this, I am sick of seeing cats suffering to satisfy someones idea of "rescue". It's not and it's cruel.
Though young cats can be resocialised, one of my cats was a feral kitten and she is such a love bug now.
Which shelter do you/did you work at ? It sounds awfull
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