“Toronto’s cat population booming”
November 3, 2012
A recent warm spring in Toronto has encouraged a drastic
increase in the cat population. Toronto has as many as 300,000 wild cats that
roam their streets, but the recent warm weather revealed a total influx of new
kittens that were admitted into shelters all over the city. Bceuase of that
recent increase shelters have reached full capacity and now programs have even
been implemented to trap, spay and neuter feral cats. The volunteer run program
has a trap and release approach, but upon spaying and neutering the cats they
have seen a 32% decrease in the cat population. The city of Toronto knows that
they cannot completely rid their streets of the felines but the new programs
have proved to be formidable and have dramatically hindered cat population
increase. This actually seems very reminiscent of a certain policy in China.
The people act as the government and the cats act as the people. Although the
program actually takes physically takes away the cat’s ability to reproduce who
says that China’s doing something different. They are just doing it mentally.
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