Can you give your opinion on the difference between those magazines you mentioned? I guess I should just read them all.
Can you give your opinion on the difference between those magazines you mentioned? I guess I should just read them all.
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Here are more tips on TNR https://kyanimalwelfare.com/community-cats
And a list of wildlife rescues near Bowling Green, KY. These groups will usually handle animals other than cats and dogs, but tell them you found an injured feral kitten and they might be able to help.
Here’s a contact page that offers to help you find someone local to you.
https://www.alleycat.org/our-work/feral-friends-network/feral-friends-network-connect/
Usually, the best way to control a feral colony is Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR).
https://www.alleycat.org/our-work/trap-neuter-return/
If you were to simply remove the cats, it just makes space for others to move in. Leaving a few in place but unable to reproduce helps to keep the population low.
Look in your area for local TNR groups or humane societies willing to help you. Don’t expect them to do all of the work, but sometimes they will be able to loan you humane traps or point you to low-cost spay/neuter services. They always get more requests than they have capacity to handle, so the more work you can take on yourself, the more likely they are to help you. Also, just to set expectations, it’s probably not something that can be solved in a weekend or even a month. Trapping often takes a lot of patience.
Unfortunately for the injured kitten, often the must humane thing to do is euthanasia. You can contact local vets and ask if they would look at the kitten for low cost or provide low cost euthanasia so that at least it doesn’t suffer. I know it sucks, but sometimes the best you can do is reduce suffering.
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TIL: “The Old French word bescuit is derived from the Latin words bis (twice) and coquere, coctus (to cook, cooked), and, hence, means “twice-cooked”. This is because biscuits were originally cooked in a twofold process: first baked, and then dried out in a slow oven.”