Although the life of a stray cat is not easy, you need to be careful when feeding. Sometimes love is overflowing.

Stray cats are almost everywhere in our lives: in communities, parks, schools, and even on the roads where there are not too many people, sometimes you can see stray cats walking around. Although stray cats are indeed very difficult, they often cannot fill their stomachs, and are easily affected by extreme weather, and their average life span is less than two years, but why have we seen more and more stray cats in recent years? In fact, this has a very direct relationship with the "caring" measures of kind people and the good-willed actions.

There are probably reasons for the surge in the number of stray cats: they jumped or fell from an unsealed low-rise balcony and couldn't get home and started wandering, they broke free from the traction (or were not traction at all) and escaped and lost, they were deliberately abandoned by strange poop shovelers for various reasons, they were idle cultivators from the society to "release animals" from pet stores, and offspring of senior stray cats breeding, etc. Stray cats sleep in the open air, and it is difficult for them to find food and hide themselves, so many kind-hearted people feed stray cats.

First of all, feeding stray cats is indeed a kind act. It is definitely worthy of praise to be able to give these poor little animals a bite of water, a small nest so that they can live a more comfortable life. But from my personal point of view, unless stray cats who have received TNR (capture, sterilization, release) can be cared for by randomly, I personally do not recommend feeding stray cats at will. The reasons are as follows. The situation of stray cats is very distressing, with poor living conditions and often encounters human expulsion and malicious treatment. If there is no kind-hearted person to treat it in time, they can only wait for the arrival of death silently. However, more and more people are feeding stray cats now. The stray cats in cities are overprotected. They have no natural enemies, resulting in increasing density and increasing number. In comparison, foraging is more difficult and competition is more intense. Stray cats who are not full of food begin to prey on small animals native to the city, becoming invasive species, seriously destroying the local ecological balance. After years of investigation and research, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has released a list of the world's top 100 alien invasive species, with domestic cats being listed. The list description says that although domestic cats are widely distributed pets, a large number of free-range cats and abandoned stray cats have posed a huge threat to small native wild animals in various places, including arthropods, amphibians and reptiles, small mammals, birds, etc., and even on multiple islands in Oceania, it has caused a catastrophe to many local small wild animals and caused irreversible damage to the ecosystem. Although stray cats live in difficult life, they have not stopped reproduction. A large number of new generation stray cats will repeat the same mistakes when they are lucky enough to grow up, continue to live a hard life, and continue on the road of strays. Although the survival rate of stray cats is not high, many people are now paying attention to the familiar female stray cats. Feeding them with more nutritious food makes the survival rate of small cats increasingly higher. For example, feeding two stray cats makes them have no worries. In the second and third years, they will develop into a big family of dozens of cats. If two cats can afford to feed them, what about twenty or forty?

The new forces of these stray cats will naturally develop their own territory. You may not have seen them gather many of them, but that is because stray cats are not social animals, and they have to expand their territory by themselves when they grow up. More and more stray cats will not only lead to a worse ecological environment, but will also increase some social burden and negative news. It’s not that I don’t recommend that everyone care and protect stray cats. I care about them myself and have done a lot of things for them. I believe my old friends know it. I mean, protection is not just about providing food, improving their future living conditions and quality of life, but also about protection, such as adopting and going home, or performing TNR, catching it and sterilizing it and then releasing it.

Nowadays, many pet hospitals have policies for stray animals. If you take stray cats to sterilize, the price is very low, and only charges are charged. Some hospitals may also sterilize stray cats for free. Therefore, random feeding with excessive love may not be the best method. If conditions permit, sterilizing stray cats should be the main method. This will not only control the quantity, but also increase its quality of life in the future. If the number of stray cats can be controlled within a reasonable range, more humans will be willing to accept sharing their living space with them, and more people will be willing to speak out to fight for real legal protection for them. All of the above are my personal opinions and ideas.