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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Fundraiser to help with investigation into missing Fort Worth cats


Volunteers are holding a fundraiser to gather money to be used to hire a private investigator.

A memorial was set up by volunteers for the Trinity Park feral cats.

A memorial was set up by volunteers for the Trinity Park feral cats.

For more than 10 years, a group of Fort Worth residents made daily treks to Trinity Park to feed and care for a colony of vaccinated, neutered docile cats which lived in a makeshift camp just off Crestline Road and University. In late December, the dozen or so cats turned up missing. The shelters built by volunteers were also stolen.

The cats were part of a pilot program involving multiple feral cat colonies which had been under way for years at Trinity Park in Fort Worth, and from all accounts the program was a great success -- a perfect example of how Trap Neuter Return Program (TNR) should work. Coincidentally, the city of Fort Worth has been holding meetings to discuss proposed implementation of a privately-funded, city-wide TNR program. TNR is a proven, humane method of managing feral and community cat populations and is used in cities across the country.

The disappearance of 18 cats over a period of just a few weeks appears to be suspicious; a jogger reports a mutilated cat was found near the colony the week between Christmas and New Years. Volunteers noticed the cats were gone along with their custom-made shelters, and notified Animal control. Since then the plight of the cats has been on CBS, NBC-5, WFAA, KDFW, and articles have been published online and in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. A memorial has been set up at the site along with posters asking for clues. While police and the Fort Worth Animal Control investigate, volunteers want answers.

Volunteers are holding a fundraiser to gather money to be used to hire a private investigator. The event will be from 3-6 p.m. Saturday, February 4 at 7th Haven, 2700 West Seventh in Fort Worth. For more information on the event, contact www.cattailz.org.

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woodsman001, anonymous:

People who comprehend the importance of not allowing an invasive-species to destroy all native wildlife and spreading deadly diseases to all wildlife and humans are now doing their part to ensure that the only thing that TNR advocates manage to accomplish is making their bank-accounts lighter. Do a Google search. Yours is not the first, nor will it be the last TNR colony to completely disappear. It seems to be a new hobby that is sweeping the land. Just like TNR first spread. All TNR'ed cats now die just as fast as if you had trapped them and had them euthanized yourself. Too bad that you're not going to control how all your cats die. Not that that has ever mattered to even one of you. ALL TNR'ed cats die from "attrition". You know, by being road-kill, cat and animal attacks, exposure, diseases, environmental poisons, etc., etc.

Being shot to death, poisoned, or re-trapped and drowned also falls under the definition of "attrition". Didn't you know that?

Here's a new definition of TNR that you can use in all your flyers:

TNR -- how to make your bank-account lighter through "attrition" -- the cats still die soon anyway.

1 year, 3 months ago
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woodsman001, anonymous:

Here's how TNR-MATH works:

"In NYC there are currently 465 registered TNR colonies. When TNR began in these colonies, 6047 cats were present – today, there are 4523 cats present, a decline of approximately 25 percent." (Quoted from an Alley Cnt Allies member who was SO proud of this.)

Apparently, if you TNR 4 cats and 3 die from being flattened by cars this is a 75% decline of feral-cats statewide.

Of those 6,047 cats they've only REDUCED the total by 1,524 cats, about 127 PER YEAR. That's only 0.08% of the 1,806,310 feral-cats within the city's limits. (data taken direct from TNR-advocates' own resources)

Guess how many have been born IN JUST THE LAST 6 MONTHS (hoping like hell that they're not breeding every 4 months). Let's do the math...

(1/2 total = females) 903,155 X 5 (avg. number in a litter) = 4,515,775 NEW CATS. Which lowers the number of them that have been reduced by TNR idiots to only 0.024%. THEY ARE GOING BACKWARD.

Guess how many will be born in another 6 months? (4,515,775 / 2) X 5 = 11,289,438.

Remember. the first 903,155 females are still breeding. For another 4,515,775. Add in the pre-existing 1,806,310, bringing the grand total in just ONE YEAR to 17,611,523 CATS. Which means that TNR groups have only reduced the cat-population by 0.008% of them. That's not even 1/100th of 1%.

Alley-Cat-ALL-LIES can't even reduce cats in their own city, yet they promote it as a worldwide solution. Then even bigger fools fall for it and promote it.

[Note: this recursive calculation population-growth problem actually requires advanced calculus with many more variables and will result in differing numbers; some higher, some lower, depending on how many years you do the population-growth projection when using both methods; but the results are just as astoundingly large no matter which method you use. I only include the dumbed-down version here so those of you with at least half a brain can comprehend and do the math yourself. Besides, it doesn't matter how many feral-cats are roaming free. If even ONE invasive-species cat is roaming free and has destroyed even ONE native animal, then that invasive-species cat must be destroyed. These numbers are only important to alert all others to how many cats must be destroyed and if they'll ever have the financial resources to do so by using their preferred method. In most cases, every municipality must allocate anywhere from 1/10th to 1/2 $BILLION PER YEAR if employing TNR costs just to catch-up to their breeding rates -- sustaining that expense YEARLY into perpetuity. Whereas shooting them results in costs substantially lower, in the range of $2,000 to $75,000 for 1 year. Which ends up being a ONE-TIME-EXPENSE. Something that is attainable by the tax-base in most every area.]

1 year, 3 months ago
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woodsman001, anonymous:

Look up the term TNR advocates just LOVE to use on how they reduce their feral-cat numbers, their candy-coating feel-good term of "Death by Attrition". This means that their cats will die from disease, cat-attacks, animal-attacks, exposure, road-kill, starvation, and any other means that drastically shortens cats' lives. They don't die from old-age, you know! ALL their cats suffering for how many months it takes to die that way. Just because they don't see how that cat lies there, gasping for air, dying for days, after it's been hit by a car or survived an animal attack means that it didn't die inhumanely? Is that how it works with TNR advocates? They didn't see it suffer to death so it didn't suffer? Are they THIS self-deluded? A cat dying from poisoning is even more humane than a cat dying from TNR's "attrition" (of which poisoning by any means; plant, snake, insect, or chemical; is one of the many methods that falls under the definition of "attrition"). In most parts of this country and the world TNR practices clearly falls under the guidelines for cruelty to animals, animal-abuse, animal-neglect, animal-endangerment, and animal-abandonment laws. Including being in direct violation of every invasive-species law in existence.

Let's not forget how TNR advocates don't hesitate to carve up cats with scalpels as well as cutting off parts of their ears, from which they have to heal-up for weeks before they try to survive again. As if letting them die of "attrition" wasn't bad enough, TNR-advocates start them off by terrorizing them with traps, cages, and sticking knives into them first. (Which is also precisely why they can't trap them a 2nd time to keep them vaccinated.)

Not only are they cruelly torturing cats, but also all wildlife they inflict their cats upon. Their cats literally ripping the skin off of and clawing the guts out of any wildlife to use it as an agonizingly and slowly dying twitching play-toy for their cats. And as soon as all the "fun" has drained out of their play-toy, they go on and find another one to torture. This is no different than if cat-owners went to a pet-store and bought canaries and hamsters then threw them at their cats to watch their cats tear them apart for their amusement. What about all the native predators that depend on all those animals for their ONLY food? Their cats cause all those animals to STARVE TO DEATH. TNR-advocates' cruelty knows no bounds.

If you want to raise revenue for your towns and cities in order to deal with this invasive-species ecological-disaster properly and effectively, start charging all these TNR advocates with severe fines and imprisonment for CRUELTY TO ANIMALS AND VIOLATION OF INVASIVE-SPECIES LAWS.

They're not doing this out of any goodness of their hearts. THEY DON'T HAVE HEARTS, nor minds. Proved, 100%.

1 year, 3 months ago
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damn yankee, anonymous:

woodsman001, I like your novel so far, have you talked to a publisher?

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woodsman001, anonymous:

damn yankee, Anything beyond 140 characters always seems like a novel to today's ADD afflicted twitter-heads. Their lifetime comprehension and intellect equally limited. Ooops, that was already 155 characters, drat my 130wpm typing speed. You'll never understand this. It's now well beyond the scope of your mind. Oh well. Too bad. So sad.

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damn yankee, anonymous:

Three comments, all in a row, containing something that long is usually the sign of an automated robot, crawling the web for their favorite topic, and auto-posting spam-like offerings. So I'm actually surprised that you're a human being, and with that, apologize for the snark. (Also, I took my crazy pills today! So I can read things! And not get distracted by the naked lady in the hotel across the street! Hey, wait a second.)

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Jason Rice, verified:

Yankee - do not apologize for snark. It's the thing we recognize you for.
I was impressed that it was formatted readably. Not that I dive into that kind of odyssey without a term paper due, but it did seem authentic.

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mezzetin_subaquatic, anonymous:

get my dinner from a garbage can...

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