Quote Originally Posted by channlluv View Post
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
Thanks for the link. Sadly, the whole feral cats thing may be moot. We haven't see much of our kitties since bringing them home from the vet. The cats had been spending a lot of time under the deck of the house next door to us. The house had been uninhabited and for sale for some time. Well, the very day we brought them back home from the vet, a family moved into the house. We talked to them about the cats and they were just fine with "hosting" them (they have indoor cats, too). But I think all of the activity around the house may have spooked the kitties. We have only seen them a couple of times since then and not at all over the last day or so. We're going to ask around a bit and see if any of our other neighbors have seen them. I'd like to think that somebody else might be feeding them, but of course, there are other possibilities. It makes me sad. I'd grown more attached to them than I realized.