Quote Originally Posted by indysteel View Post
I'd have to read more about that issue in your community, but it strikes me that the issue has more to do with unrestrained land development than feral cats or the food people put out to feed them. So, too, does the solution. Those coyotes aren't likely to just go away because the kittie food is removed.

In my former urban community, feral cats are used to curb the rat population, which is one of the main reasons the county doesn't prohibit people from caring for managed and controlled feral colonies.

You make a good point. The mayor sounded like they'd tried everything to keep the coyotes at bay, including training them to leave humans alone, sound repellants, trapping and removing them, and so on. The community has been there for a long time, so it's not like this is a new issue. It's just gotten worse with the draught and people leaving food out for the wild animals. In the NPR interview, he specifically mentioned feral cats, although in skimming the article link below, I didn't see any reference to cats except the one carried off by a coyote.

It's not my community, though. Here's an article about it: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/...20085765.shtml.

Roxy