02/12/2025
Spay and Neuter!!
Be part of the solution
What really gets my blood boiling 🔥 - and today’s rant is dedicated to the feral-cat haters.
I am so sick of the narrative that feral cats are the sole destroyers of our fauna, flora, and wildlife. It is a cop-out, unfair, and completely ignores reality 🙄.
There are many predators in our ecosystem:
🐒 Vervet monkeys raid nests and eat chicks alive
🦝 Genets hunt
🐍 Snakes hunt
🦅 Birds of prey hunt
- yet nobody demonizes them. But feral cats, who never chose to be born on the streets, get blamed for this alone 😾.
Let’s get one thing straight:
This is a human-created problem. 👈
Humans domesticated cats thousands of years ago. Humans from all walks of life now abandoned them, leaving their cats to fend for themselves (which most starve or die). Humans allow their unsterilized cats to free roam (resulting in breeding with any other cat or feral). Government fail to enforce sterilization. And now rescuers are left to put out fires 🔥 with TNR, mostly using their own resources 💸, their own volunteered time ⏳, and their own sanity - while “keyboard warriors” or feral cat haters - type from the comfort of their couches 💻.
And here’s the fact no one wants to hear:
A tiny bird 🐦, mouse 🐁, rat 🐀, or gecko 🦎 is NOT enough to sustain a feral cat.
A starving animal will do what it must - dig in your garbage 🚮, steal your dog’s kibble 🐕🦺, or hang around unsanitary places where humans leave food behind.
So don’t pretend this is all ferals doing. It’s survival that WE caused.
Meanwhile, domestic free-roaming cats - owned by irresponsible humans 🙃 - contribute massively to hunting wildlife. But sure, blame the ferals. Easy target, right? 🎯
GET A GODDAMN CATIO - or cat proof your property.
If feral colonies were all controlled and TNR’d, they would have far less impact on our delicate ecosystem. But instead of advocating for sterilization ✂️ and supporting those doing the work and rescue, some prefer to villainize the very animals humans failed in the first place!!!😡
So before you accuse rescuers of being “part of the problem,” ask yourself:
What have YOU done? 🤨
✅Did you skip that KFC takeaway 🍗 to donate to a rescue doing TNR?
✅Did you ever help trap, sterilise, feed, treat, or home a stray/feral cat?
✅Did you ever lift a finger for anything other than typing your uneducated opinion? 💬
Because if your contribution to conservation is a Facebook comment… please. Sit down. and Shut the 🚫 up
Stray dogs kill cats 🐕.
Vervet monkeys can kill - if not maim - pets 🐒⚔️.
Birds of prey take many pets 🦅🐱.
Rats spread disease because humans leave rubbish everywhere 🐀🗑️.
Humans are the worst and have a record of killing the most in their path🤬
But somehow feral cats are the only ones in the spotlight? 🤦♀️
No.
The real spotlight should be on solutions:
🐾 TNR to stop breeding
🐾 Feeding programmes to stabilize colonies
🐾 Sterilizing owned
🐾 Stop free roaming cats
🐾 Supporting rescues instead of attacking them
Feral cats didn’t choose this life.
We as vile humans created it.
So the least we can do is be part of the solution - not the cruelty, not the hate, and definitely not the demonization ❤️🩹🐱.
