Albert D,
Theoretically, if a spay and neuter program was implemented, and implemented to 100% efficiency, feral cats would eventually die out without reproducing. That is at least a _chance_ at a solution for bringing the numbers way down -- eventually.

Setting aside your obvious and irrational hysteria, I don't see any solutions from you. Or am I misreading your posts; are you advocating killing any and all free roaming cats everywhere? Whether they are "pets" or not? Not a very practical solution in the real world. And I'm sure that would piss off plenty of responsible cat owners and animal lovers in general.
Another note: those cats in the picture above; they seem awful plump, clean and healthy looking. For all you know, some of them may be already spayed and neutered pets just outside for some fresh air (and free food).
PETA much?

If you do the research, as I did using data from the most "successful" TNR programs, you'll easily find that not even *ONE* TNR program has EVER trapped more than 0.4% of existing cats in any one area for over a decade now. They simply cannot trap them faster than they breed out of control, no matter what they do. And those cats that learn to evade traps go on to produce offspring that now also know how to evade any trapping method used. On advice of the local sheriff where I live I used a .22 equipped with a good illuminated-scope and a laser-sight for use when they are most active, dusk to dawn; as well as to afford precision aim for a humane kill. I shot every last one of them on my property to restore all the native wildlife to proper balance. 100% total success! This is even a more humane method than terrorizing trapping and animal-shelter methods. And contrary to TNR LIES, not ONE cat replaced them, NATIVE WILDLIFE THAT BELONGS HERE RETURNED.

I've a box full of collars. Perfectly legal to shoot someone else's animal that is threatening the health, well-being, or life of others where I live, someone's pet or not. There's absolutely NO difference between a stray and feral cat. BOTH are invasive-species. BOTH are destroying native wildlife. BOTH are spreading diseases deadly to wildlife and humans. If people want to keep invasive-species for pets they need to keep them confined and quarantined ACCORDING TO LAW. The loss of their cats is THEIR fault, not mine. Let the criminally-irresponsible parents explain to their children why their behavior and values got their cat killed by gun or car or animal attacks or any of the other ways that your cats that you don't really care about get killed. Perhaps in that lesson of explaining to their children why their criminally-irresponsible behavior got their kid's cat killed that the parents too will grow up into morally and ethically responsible humans one day. Whether they get killed by animal attack or road-kill or by gun it's all the same thing. YOUR lack of concern for that cat is what got it killed, there is NO OTHER REASON. You lousy "cat-lover" hypocrites, you're all the same.

There is no indication or suspicions that any of these cats are sick with rabies. Rabies in this area is rare. Even more rare in winter months.

yes, and you can walk 10 feet out your front door tomorrow and be hit by a run-away bus. Same chance as getting rabies from one of these cats. There have been 30 cases of rabies among cats in Ocean County.......... in the last TWENTY TWO years.
The state averages about FIVE (5) cases of rabies in cats every year for the last few years.... that's the total for the entire state, not Ocean County. Chances are very very slim these cats 1. have rabies, and 2. They will come anywhere near enough to bite you or a kid. Let's not panic.

Mattie,

Look at what ANOTHER ONE OF _YOUR_ CATS has done...

http://cjonline.com/news/2012-01-06/2-county-youngsters-exposed-rabies

Aren't you so very proud of yourselves for what you and your beliefs are causing.

Want some more links just as bad? Here's a couple more:

http://valleybreeze.com/2011/12/21/observer/police-to-press-charges-against-owner-of-rabid-domestic-cat

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/09/23/2631106/rabid-cat-adopted-from-wake-county.html

The net is flooded with stories just like those. All thanks to YOU and people JUST LIKE YOU.

YOU are the cause of this.

Those are not "beliefs"... they are FACTS. here's your link:

http://nj.gov/health/cd/documents/rabcases2011.pdf

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If you advocate for cats as rodent-control on farms and ranches you've already doomed them to being destroyed by drowning or shooting when it becomes a financial liability more than any asset. Ranchers and farmers worldwide are fully aware that cats' Toxoplasma gondii parasite can cause the very same birth defects (hydrocephaly and microcephaly), still-births, and miscarriages in their livestock and important wildlife as it can in pregnant women. This is why any cats are ROUTINELY destroyed around gestating livestock and wildlife-management areas in the most efficient, humane, and least-expensive method available. Common rural practice everywhere. The risk of financial loss from dead livestock and important native wildlife from an invasive-species cat is far too great to do otherwise.

The next time you bite into that whole-grain veggie-muffin or McBurger, you need to just envision biting down on a shot-dead or drowned kitten or cat. For that's precisely how that food supply got to your mouth -- whether you want to face up to it or not. It's not going to change reality no matter how much you twist your mind away from the truth of your world.

If you want to blame someone for the drowning and shooting of cats, you need to prosecute yourself -- every time you eat.

You really should seek professional help for your obsession (read: paranoia) regarding cats. And I don't appreciate your nasty tone and name calling either.

Did you know there are MANY diseases that are spread to humans from DOGS as well? And Parrots/Birds? And snakes? --and just about any other domestic animal we humans keep as pets? Did you know that livestock that we eat also carry diseases transferable to humans? It's a dirty world we live in... germs and disease everywhere. So stay indoors! Don't go near wild life! Don't touch pets -- Not your own or anyone's else's! RUN!!!

yeah, the plague.... It's a real problem these days.

Albert-- Wow, you are seriously rude, abusive, and out of control!! I think you may be a real danger to yourself or loved ones. get help.

I don't own cats, Albert D.

And I'll be notifying Patricia Miller demanding your posts be removed. And if anyone else here is tired of this kind of abuse and obnoxiousness, please flag his posts so they are removed. Albert has mental issues obviously. He's commented on NO OTHER TOPIC except hating cats, since June, 2011. Look at his profile.