HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0283.284 2024-2026From:
yawninggreyhound
Sent:
Thursday, July 3, 2025 5:06 PM
To:
Council Testimony
Subject:
OPPOSE BILL 51
Please do not pass this bill. Ignoring the plight of dumped -by -locals cats will result in a horrible
situation. The cats will be forced to forage wildlife and will likely spread out away from the colonies
seeking food and water.
This approach will not handle the feral cat problem.
Educating the public will handle the feral cat problem. Making spay and neuter clinics available to
everyone who cant afford them (which apparently is most everyone on the island). Enforcing the anti -
animal dumping laws would help. Financing a robust humane society would help.
People dump entire litters of kittens, damning them to a certain death from starvation as they cant even
access the provided food at the age they are dumped. You outlawing feeding isn't going to fix that. They
dump sick animals. They dump roosters (not fighting roosters, THOSE ARE VALUED).
People will sneak in to feed them, caring humans cant abide the starvation and forced migration of the
colonies in their pursuit of sustenance.
There is s cat problem, no argument there. But it's fixing the people problem that will fix the cat problem.
Thank you for your time.
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