People must intervene on behalf of feral cats
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Editor,
“Now you see me – now you don’t” – and so it is with the Magic 30 feral cat colony in downtown Polson. The Magic 30 needs to be renamed to the Magic 20 due to winter casualties. It is now their season to be out and about hunting, raising young and exploring. I will miss them. Of course I will stop there daily to leave dry cat food for their “pit stops.” Plentiful mice and voles will do just fine for moist food. Hunting – a time for what they do best.
Also to spring comes “courting.” I wonder how much this population will increase. A trap-neuter-release, TNR, program is so needed to help keep the feral population in check. These cats just being cats are at no fault for this condition of population explosion. Back to the Magic 30 or maybe 40. We are at fault if we don’t humanely intervene in this cycle of ultimate destruction for them. For a few upcoming months, life may be kind to them – no huddling in some kind of shelter so as not to freeze to death and waiting for compassionate humans to bring food. The bigger the population the more difficult the survival it would seem. I hope to see a few of them before winter.
Joan St. John
Polson
