Whoee. Look what you started. I think the problem is a non issue out here, because the weather precludes cats and dogs from staying feral long. It's also mostly a set of walled suburbs, so I think the idea of letting your animals roam loose just isn't practical. The few loose animals I see in our neighborhood are rare enough that we know them all and everyone knows the house they actually live at. The only thing close to a feral cat I see out here is an old female with a missing tail, who I've taken to calling Ahab, but I think she has a home. She hunts the pigeons in my back yard and on one memorable occasion, a rat. We watched that hunt from out kitchen window.
I suspect we'll come around to the idea of keeping pets inside, or at least in our yards fairly soon, just like we came around to using seat belts. There's going to be some growing pains during the transition, though.
As for the animals at the zoo, how come you don't feed the dead to your big predators?
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Date: 2007-09-03 06:14 pm (UTC)I suspect we'll come around to the idea of keeping pets inside, or at least in our yards fairly soon, just like we came around to using seat belts. There's going to be some growing pains during the transition, though.
As for the animals at the zoo, how come you don't feed the dead to your big predators?