Why can't someone make a food that would sterilize feral cats?

Answer 1

That would be SOOO Awesome!!!!Talk about an amazing cut in the feral population! It would be great if there was a feral dog food too - we have that problem here...

It sure would encourage people who didn't want to sterilize their pets (why I'll never know) to keep them in the house where they belong!

PETE E - I really don't think "rabid environmentalists" would be that opposed to the idea if they knew the damage feral cats were doing to the song bird populations!

Answer 2

Feral cats don´t have any money, so they wouldn't pay for this food, and that would bankrupt anyone who tries to make that kind of food. Also the feral cats Parliament declared that feral cat sterilization is a huge animal rights violation, and they are inciting all feral cats to protest by messing up garbage cans everywhere to repudiate this idea.

Answer 3

Any kind of scientific research needs a treatment group and a control group and to be anywhere near definitive also needs to be long-term. I don't think it would be possible to control or monitor a feral cat colony to establish the treated and the control group. To say nothing of the expense involved in running, analyzing and coming up with possible solutions to serilization effectiveness, dosages, side effects etc. It's hard and expensive to set up these groups for humans where there is some research money. I just don't think the money would be there for cats.

Also the additive (if one could be determined) would have to be different for males and females and how could you regulate that in feeding a feral colony?

I think the TNR programs will be all we will have for the foreseeable future. At least we know that to be effective and without any long-term deleterious side effects.

Answer 4

pretty much because there are few, if any, edible things that are capable of sterilizing a cat, you'd have to neuter them by a surgical procedure. You can halt fertility temporarily through injection and by ingestion, so one of the answerer's ideas about crushing up birth control pills and putting them into food would work on a temporary basis.

Answer 5

thats a good idea
kitty birth control
a pill or packet you mix with it daily food!
but it would be a hell lot easier to just get the animal fixed so you know for sure you never got to worry about unwanted litter that are going to suffer or be hard finding homes.
but some people would give their cats hormone pills it would be a good idea if you wanted a litter sometime in the future.

Answer 6

For the same reason nobody can make a food to sterilize welfare queens! Just ain't been done yet!

Answer 7

Because anything could eat it - squirrels, feral dogs, raccoons, and who knows what else. Speaking as a non-rabid environmentalist, I would be against putting that sort of food on the market.

(Rabid environmentalists would probably be violently against it.)

Answer 8

http://www.alleycat.org/

TNR
Trap Neuter Return

Answer 9

Get to inventing!! cause I think it's a great idea

Answer 10

Let us know when they do, so we can slip you some.