Have you tried MDSPCA? Looks like they have spots for January: https://www.mdspca.org/veterinary-care/spay-neuter/

Vet staffing has been hit hard the last few years and seems like everywhere (across the country) is having trouble keeping up with all the pandemic pets and staff burn out.

Yea bmore sun sucks

If someone could tie their boat off so that it was stable, I could see climbing up. Standing in a boat, a regular height guy could easily reach the top and potentially climb up.

As good a guess as any. Personally, I lean towards a younger athletically inclined personage that would be able to climb down and back up from the railroad bridge. Daytime would be sketchy though due to the Light Rail.

focus on the N, in tnr for men? /s

Consult Jonathan Swift.

Yes, their populations have plummeted.

We're new getting to the crux of the matter. When were these dolls placed?

Cat feces has a parasite that makes rats and mice more aggressive. Cats are only a good solution to a rodent problem when it’s a semi indoor cat like a barn cat that gets regular vet care. Otherwise feral cats make the rat problem worse. The rats in our neighborhood are getting exponentially more in number as the feral cat numbers increase.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0608310104

Do we have a migratory song bird problem?

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They don’t have much impact on rat populations, but when it comes to migratory song birds, it’s a different story.

We recently moved to an area with a lot of feral cats. Its not easy, but the county will lend you a trap to catch them, then you take them to get fixed, then return them to the wild. It's unfortunate how many people in the area who feed the cats are not aware of TNR. So the population gets out of control quick.

Happy that I found a wonderful person who fosters near by, since the shelters are so full. Feel much better about getting kittens to foster.

I have two cats, rescued from feral life. I haven't been able to get an appointment on the BARCS website or whatever for neutering for over a year. And you can't make the appointment on the phone? The slots get filled up so quick I guess. Tax time, we will go through our vet, which is a lot more. But I can't keep waiting to get this

petfinder.com is great

I want to add, since so many people are talking about how cats don't kill rats, I'm happy to report that the feral cats have killed a few rats in my area that I know about. Usually after the county treats the apartments or whatever near by. They say rats are intelligent, but these baby rats were culled short.

It seems more that their PRESENCE can keep rats away, not that they hunt them necessarily. Now I've seen the cats and an opossum eating from the same bowl, but never a rat. A feral/community cat living under your porch won't let a rat or other creature live near them.

Also, 8 kittens saved from feral life this week!

only in the respect that as a black candidate he is not immediately disqualified by a large enough portion of the electorate that he can't win.

Before I respond, let me ask this question. Do you believe Mosby is in power because he is Black?

The fees associated with owning a pet come with the territory. As nice as it is to own a pet and it's wonderful to have their company and all but to give them the proper care costs money.

So at the end of the day, do you have the means to pay those expenses? If not then it's best to wait until you can

Id have thought the same thing too. But they’ve looked at it and they don’t. A lot of the rats they kill are already on deaths door.

It's a common thought that you have but it's simply not true.

Cats in all honesty are not the best at dealing with the rat population.

https://www.fox5ny.com/news/meet-the-rat-hunters-dogs-join-the-fight-against-nycs-rodent-problem.

omny.fm/shows/stuff-you-should-know-1/cats-invasive-species

its not a personal grievance, its just anger motivated by an experience limited to myself.

white candidates face substantial ingrained disadvantages which have only been overcome in my lifetime by either historically bad opponents, mosby is approaching that status but probably needs another 1-2 terms before his uselessness can no longer be made up for by his race, or by having more money and popularity than even costello has.

I would think cats would keep the rodent population down.

(This may have been addressed in the article but I got blocked by the paywall.)

Could’ve lowered themselves onto that concrete ledge with a rope from the top of the bridge, or climbed up the concrete slab from below - the latter would be hard but possible for someone good at rock climbing.

> The ideal practice, said Balcom, would be cutting down on the fees associated with spaying, neutering and vaccinating cats to expedite and incentivize more TNR adoption. As it stands, a spay and neuter procedure could cost as much as $500 per feline in a private practice, she said.

Yea, the common sense answer is "make what we want people to do easy and cheap", but as a society we constantly done, so don't bet it will change here.

This may be more of a county this, but I don't see a ton of wild cats in the city. Other cities I've lived in had actually had many more cats.

Placed using liquid nails + pole grabber, maybe.

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