November 12, 2011 10 Comments

Pasado’s NEW Feral Cat Task Force

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Nutmeg was born in a feral colony and is now looking for his forever home.

Now recruiting for … “PASADO’S SAFE HAVEN’S FERAL CAT TASK FORCE”

WE HAVE A SEVERE PROBLEM IN WASHINGTON STATE …

It is estimated that there are 1.2 million unaltered feral and free-roaming cats in the state of Washington.  This is not only an over-population problem, but a sanitation, health, and economic issue.  These cats are dying horrible deaths in the wild due to the increased contamination of diseases such as Pan-leukemia (cat Parvo), FeLV (Feline Leukemia), Rabies, and FIV (Feline version of HIV) just to name a few.  According to the Animal World Network, one female cat and her offspring can produce 420,000 cats in 7 years.  This problem will only get worse unless we do something about it.

A coalition has been formed consisting of Pasado’s Safe Haven, Purrfect Pals, MEOW Cat Rescue, and Feral Cat Spay Neuter Project. This Task Force promotes the spay/neuter of feral (untamed outdoor) cats through humane Trap/Neuter/Return (TNR). The Feral Cat Task Force is recruiting volunteers for classroom and field training.  As a volunteer, you may be interested in helping with trapping, transportation, overnight care of cats before and after surgery, fostering kittens, public education, or being a caregiver for a managed colony. Your level of involvement is up to you. Anyone is welcome and there is no cost to you. You can help change feral cat statistics and you can help change their lives. Join us in this rewarding and worthwhile adventure.

With your help, the Feral Cat Task Force will save the lives of thousands of cats through prevention. Be a part of the solution. Call or email the organization nearest to you:

Jennyf@PasadoSafeHaven.org, 360-793-9393, x107  (Sultan)

Connieg@PurrfectPals.org, 360-652-9611  (Arlington)

Bonne@MeowCatRescue.org, 425-822-MEOW(6369)   (Kirkland)

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  • Jess the caretaker

    Jenny has done SO much work to help in the effort to control the local feral cat populations – she could really use your help to save even more cats! It’s such a rewarding and much needed program that once you join, I’m sure you will want to be a part of animal rescue for life!

  • Anonymous

    1.2 million? Well then, if you apply cats breeding rates with a 90% survival rate to this number, this means that you’ll have 17,415,000 by year’s-end. This means that if you start today (not a month from now when populations will be higher), you need to trap about 47,712 cats PER DAY just to catch up to their breeding rates, not even slow them down. Unless you can trap more than that per day, then you need to trap that many into perpetuity. Don’t think you can go slower, because in 2 years from now you’ll have 252,735,187 cats to trap if you don’t start trapping that many or more per day, today and every day. With an average cost of TNR per cat in your state, of $180, this means you must allocate about $8,588,160.00 PER DAY to tackle this problem by using TNR methods. Note, this is a cost that must be incurred into perpetuity if you cannot trap them faster than this this year. Or a mere $3,134,678,400.00 (just over 3 billion) PER YEAR.

    Are you starting to see why TNR is an absolute failure? They can NEVER trap them faster than they breed out of control. Nor can any community or state withstand that kind of expense. Nort does TNR do anything to stop them from spreading their deadly diseases, nor stop them from further destroying our native wildlife or rare and endangered species. (Cats being an invasive-species must be treated like all destructive invasive-species. TNR not only violates every animal-endangerment, animal-neglect, animal-abuse, and animal-abandonment law in existence, but it also violates every invasive-species law in existence.)

    On advice of the local sheriff where I live I used a .22 equipped with a good illuminated-reticle scope and a laser-sight for use when they are most active, dusk to dawn; as well as to afford precision aim for a humane kill. I shot every last one of them on my property to restore all the native wildlife to proper balance. Mission accomplished! 100% total success! This is even a more humane method than terrorizing trapping and animal-shelter methods; and why it is the preferred feral-cat management policy in so many areas today. One moment the cats are happily stalking defenseless animals to cruelly torture again, the next they are dead and don’t even know what happened, they don’t even have time to make a sound. Making your land 100% cat-free is something that cat advocates haven’t been able to solve nation-wide for 30-40 years. On my land only 1 person in only 2 seasons was able to accomplish what they couldn’t attain in decades. Why is that? The cost per cat was also only 0.3 CENT, 3 cats PER PENNY, a ONE-TIME expense (5000 rounds on sale for only $15). All cats gone for the price of a few cups of coffee. And contrary to another famous TNR-Advocate’s bald-faced “vacuum effect” LIE … NO CATS REPLACED THEM. The NATIVE predators and their required NATIVE prey that WAS here and BELONGS here is what replaced their lousy invasive-species cats that had destroyed the entire native food-chain. This year I’m even enjoying birds I’ve never seen in my life before. Two of the warblers listed in the top 10 songbirds of the world for their song. What an amazing sound to awake to each morning. You have no idea what you’re missing if you have cats by you. I now feel sorry for anyone who has cats. Their lives and world are dismally empty and they don’t even know it.

    May you have as much success as I did, and so quickly and inexpensively too.

    p.s. Avoid the use of poisons if at all possible that, if released into the food-chain, would go on to harm the very wildlife that you are trying to save from destruction by cats. And please bury or incinerate the carcasses so all the highly toxic diseases that cats now carry won’t go on to harm nor infect more wildlife nor humans. Which, if you do a Google search, now even includes cats spreading the plague in the USA. So much for that myth that cats would have saved people from the plague in Europe, cats would have made it far worse, and just might do so this time around. Search some more and you find they are also spreading flea-borne typhus and tularemia now too.

  • Anonymous

    IN YOUR VERY OWN WORDS: “These cats are dying horrible deaths in the wild due to the increased
    contamination of diseases such as Pan-leukemia (cat Parvo), FeLV (Feline
    Leukemia), Rabies, and FIV (Feline version of HIV) just to name a few.”

    And just how is putting them back where you found them going to stop this?

    Are you actually starting to wake-up from your own self-induced psychoses? UNBELIEVABLE! You’d be the first TNR advocates to ever do so.

    Look up the term TNR advocates just LOVE to use on how they reduce their feral-cat numbers, their candy-coating feel-good term of “Death by Attrition”. This means that their cats will die from disease, cat-attacks, animal-attacks, exposure, road-kill, starvation, and any other means that drastically shortens cats’ lives. They don’t die from old-age, you know! ALL their cats suffering for how many months it takes to die that way. Just because they don’t see how that cat lies there, gasping for air, dying for days, after it’s been hit by a car or survived an animal attack means that it didn’t die inhumanely? Is that how it works with TNR advocates? They didn’t see it suffer to death so it didn’t suffer? Are they THIS self-deluded? A cat dying from poisoning is even more humane than a cat dying from TNR’s “attrition” (of which poisoning by any means; plant, snake, insect, or chemical; is one of the many methods that falls under the definition of “attrition). In most parts of this country and the world TNR practices clearly falls under the guidelines for cruelty to animals, animal-abuse, animal-endangerment, and animal-abandonment laws. Including being in direct violation of every invasive-species law in existence.

    Let’s not forget how TNR advocates don’t hesitate to carve up cats with scalpels as well as cutting off parts of their ears, from which they have to heal-up for weeks before they try to survive again. As if letting them die of “attrition” wasn’t bad enough, TNR-advocates start them off by terrorizing them with traps, cages, and sticking knives into them first. (Which is also precisely why they can’t trap them a 2nd time to keep them vaccinated.)

    Not only are they cruelly torturing cats, but also all wildlife they inflict their cats upon. Their cats literally ripping the skin off of and clawing the guts out of any wildlife to use it as an agonizingly and slowly dying twitching play-toy for their cats. And as soon as all the “fun” has drained out of their play-toy, they go on and find another one to torture. This is no different than if cat-owners went to a pet-store and bought canaries and hamsters then threw them at their cats to watch their cats tear them apart for their amusement. What about all the native predators that depend on all those animals for their ONLY food? Their cats cause all those animals to STARVE TO DEATH. TNR-advocates’ cruelty knows no bounds.

    If you want to raise revenue for your towns and cities in order to deal with this invasive-species ecological-disaster properly and effectively, start charging all these TNR advocates with severe fines and imprisonment for CRUELTY TO ANIMALS AND VIOLATION OF INVASIVE-SPECIES LAWS.

    They’re not doing this out of any goodness of their hearts. THEY DON’T HAVE HEARTS, nor minds. Proved, 100%.

  • Animal Lover

    Someone must be bored to post something like this on an animal rescue site. You’re obviously looking for a reaction out of somebody. I got a good laugh out of your giant wall of text. Thanks for that.

    Woodman001, you are what people describe as an internet troll, posting on a site like this to upset similar people with like opinions with your false statements that you probably copied and pasted from the internet yourself.

    Memorable, laughable quotes provided by woodsman001, cat hater and potential cat abuser.

    -”On advice of the local sheriff where I live I used a .22 equipped with a
    good illuminated-reticle scope and a laser-sight for use when they are
    most active, dusk to dawn; as well as to afford precision aim for a
    humane kill.”

    Oh really? Your sheriff advised that? Cause one of those cats could have easily been someone’s pet hanging around a feral colony, which if that’s the case, would put you in violation of animal cruelty laws you seem to love talking about. In my experiences as someone who does TNR, I’ve caught quite a few “tame” and collard cats in traps that could have easily been pets.

    -”The NATIVE predators and their required NATIVE prey that WAS here and
    BELONGS here is what replaced their lousy invasive-species cats that had
    destroyed the entire native food-chain.”

    What native predators are there that weren’t before? LOL.. snakes, raccoons and possums? Cause cat’s definitely don’t drive those away, and have heard and seen many cases where it’s the exact opposite. Besides cats, snakes are most commonly a birds biggest predator, and they don’t catch many birds. I have never heard of someone so excited to have more mice and pest rodents around than cats. I’ll bet you were spanked by your cat loving mommy a lot when you were younger.

    -”Which, if you do a Google search, now even includes cats spreading the plague in the USA.”

    I can do a google search quite easily, and find everything you just said, and an article to argue against it. I could even find an article to argue against the one I would find to argue against one you may post. That doesn’t make it a fact.

    -”(Cats being an invasive-species must be treated like all destructive
    invasive-species. TNR not only violates every animal-endangerment,
    animal-neglect, animal-abuse, and animal-abandonment law in existence,
    but it also violates every invasive-species law in existence.)”

    Well, a lot invasive species that are found aren’t killed, like you are suggesting. They are brought to wildlife sanctuaries to live the rest of their lives out in peace. Facilities like that already exist for cats, it’s called rescues and shelters. TNR would only violate those laws if the cats that are being re-released aren’t fixed and belong to some one. You loose again.

    -”Let’s not forget how TNR advocates don’t hesitate to carve up cats with
    scalpels as well as cutting off parts of their ears, from which they
    have to heal-up for weeks before they try to survive again.”

    What? I have been a part of multiple organizations’ TNR programs.. and this is a first to hear. LOL. What medical problem would require anyone to “carve up cats and cut off parts of their ears?”

    -”Making your land 100% cat-free is something that cat advocates haven’t been able to solve nation-wide for 30-40 years. ”

    Yep I was right. Little Woodsman001 was dumped by a girl in high school who owned a cat. It explains it all!

  • Cat Advocate

    You are an extremely misinformed//selfish being that shouldn’t be considered a representative of mankind.  Educate yourself about the hard working people out there getting slews of heartbreaking calls from people threatening the lives of innocent cats unless someone comes to ‘get rid of them’…they go out in all kinds of weather/to all kinds of locations-alot are not safe..they do this at their own expense..they humanely trap cats and get them spayed/neutered/vaccinated and ear tipped (done while under anesthetic for their spay/neuter)..they return the cats to their sites if people will offer to provide basic needs to them.  Kittens and other tame cats are fostered/adopted (if places are avail)..Cats born in the wild or left behind to fend for themselves do not need to meet up with you or anyone like you.  God didn’t create them or any other animal to be killed.  You should be ashamed of yourself-promoting violence.

  • Anonymous

    “Woodman001, you are what people describe as an internet troll, posting on a site like this to upset similar people with like opinions with your false statements that you probably copied and pasted from the internet yourself.”

    FAKE Animal Lover, you are what people describe as an internet troll, posting your false statements that you probably copied and pasted from the internet yourself.

    FAKE Animal Lover wrote: “Oh really? Your sheriff advised that? Cause one of those cats could have easily been someone’s pet hanging around a feral colony, which if that’s the case, would put you in violation of animal cruelty laws you seem to love talking about.”

    I have a box full of collars without tags on them (still legal to shoot them on your own land, collared or not), and not ONE of those came from a cat that was sterilized, I checked each one before disposing of the carcasses safely to protect all wildlife from cats’ diseases. Let the parents explain to their children why their criminally irresponsible behavior caused their cat to die from becoming road-kill, animal attacks, environmental poisons, diseases caught from other cats, or being shot to death. No matter how it dies, the end result is the same. The cause is the same — the criminally irresponsible pet-owner that let that invasive-species pet roam free. Make no mistake about that, it’s nobody’s fault but their own. Just because they didn’t really care enough about their pet to keep it safe from harm like all sane and responsible pet-owners do. Maybe the parents will grow up into responsible adults too with that lesson. Luckily for them, those that died at my hands did so humanely, dying before they even knew they were shot. To this day, not even one of them had enough time to make a sound either. That’s how quickly they all died. They didn’t become maimed road-kill, die of starvation, diseases, suffer animal or other-cat attacks, or any other slow and cruel methods that irresponsible cat-lovers and ALL TNR-ADVOCATES cause to their “beloved” cats by letting them roam free. Self-victimizing manipulative hypocrites of the worst kind, one and all.

    The important thing here is that if you don’t destroy the source of all feral-cats, then you’ll never be rid of feral-cats. STRAY-CATS ARE THE SOURCE OF ALL FERAL-CATS. THEY MUST BE DESTROYED JUST AS QUICKLY TOO OR YOU’LL NEVER STOP THIS EXPONENTIAL GROWTH OF FERAL-CATS THAT ARE NOW DESTROYING EVERY ECOSYSTEM THAT THEY ARE FOUND IN.

    FAKE Animal Lover wrote: “What native predators are there that weren’t before? LOL.. snakes, raccoons and possums? Cause cat’s definitely don’t drive those away,…”

    Your INVASIVE-SPECIES CATS destroy all those NATIVE ANIMALS’ food-sources, so all that native wildlife STARVES TO DEATH — YOU MORON. This is precisely what happened on my own land to ALL the native wildlife. If the native wildlife wasn’t cruelly tortured to death by a cat for a cat’s play-toy, then they starved to death from cats turning all the wildlife’s food into cats’ play-toys by torturing them all to death.

    FAKE Animal Lover wrote: “I can do a google search quite easily, and find everything you just said, and an article to argue against it. I could even find an article to argue against the one I would find to argue against one you may post. That doesn’t make it a fact.”

    I guess the “Centers for Disease Control” and all those other thousands of health-agencies and officials must be lying because they all have something against cats. Perhaps you should have your medication adjusted to deal with that pervasive and ongoing psychoses that you are displaying.

  • Jigoku Dayu

    I’m as much of an animal lover and animal rights activist as anyone and that’s exactly why I’m against TNR. It only makes people feel better. It does not help cats! As much as it pains me to say this, TNR is a pipe dream. It’s infeasible and does more harm than good. Why should these cats get protection, but not the wildlife they kill? Or the other animals (including humans) they spread diseases to? If you’re that dead-set against killing animals, then support TNC if you must.

    Cats should be indoors, sterilised, and vaccinated!

  • Daemona2010

    Trap/neuter/vaccinate and release does work…woodsman…you are just too trigger happy to make any sense.

  • Quinton Smith

    IF HUMANS WOULD HAVE LEFT THE CATS IN THE WILD there would be no need for TNR and just like A HUMAN I AM TALKING ABOUT YOU woodsman011 HUMANS MADE THE MESS 12.000 YEARS AGO so your FIX is to shoot them there is “ONLY” a 10% survival rate “NOT” 90% kittens an mum cats are killed by being hit by cars abuser like you how would shoot them killed by owls hawks fox dogs the lack of food an a safe place for the litter lack of water the heat of summer the cold of winter the high cost of spay an neuter must of the feral cats wore one time pets abandon dumped off by HUMANS. We humans made this mess over population of forgotten cat and it is “OUR” job to take of them “NOT TO KILL THEM” and by the way it cost more to take care of the homeless HUMANS than the FERAL CATS so why not have open season on the homeless humans use your .22 equipped with a good illuminated-reticle scope and a
    laser-sight for use when they are most active, dusk to dawn an shoot them you can save your city county state a lot of money. =^..^=

  • Anonymous

    “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.” -Gandhi

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