Chapter 755 (2/2)

Some people are disgusted with the sterilization of cats. They feel that castration after sterilization has deprived them of the experience of a part of their life, deprived them of their reproductive rights, and the cats are unhappy.

In fact, this idea is entirely from the perspective of human beings.

Animal mating is only based on instinct. Most of them do not feel happy or even extremely painful experience in mating. Dingding of cats has barbs.

After sterilization, the cat will not suffer from estrus and mating. It is healthier. What's wrong with it?

If you think that children are not cats, how can you know the happiness of cats? If you are not cats, how can you know that cats are not happy to mate, or if you want to let cats mate at least once, give birth to offspring, and then sterilize them after they have a satisfactory birth? This idea is also based on human perspective. Cats do not have the concept of ”I want to have a child”, and their reproduction is only driven by genetic instinct.

We can calculate how many offspring cats can produce if they reproduce indefinitely.

A female cat can give birth to 12 at most and 2 at least, usually 3-6. Cats with good physical strength can give birth twice a year.

A pair of non sterilized cats, in an ideal state, can reproduce 2 million cats in 8 years.

You want to keep its reproductive rights. What about its children's reproductive rights? Where's the child's child? Are these offspring capable of raising and taking care of? Can't take care of it, abandon it or give it to others? Not everyone has the ability to keep a good cat. Just give it to others and others will abandon it for a while. Doesn't this become the source of stray cats? ”

Fang Ye paused and continued: ”capturing, sterilizing and releasing, referred to as TNR, is a more humane way to reduce the number of stray cats.

After the volunteers capture the cats in a safe way, they will ask a qualified veterinarian to sterilize them and immunize them. After the operation, the cats will be released to their original living range, and their ears will be cut with a gap for recognition to prevent them from being subjected to secondary surgery. Cats with friendly relatives can help them find adoptive families.

If you want to keep a cat, I recommend adopting instead of buying.

TNR is highly praised by many people, but it is not a panacea. It needs to block the source of stray cats, achieve a sterilization rate of 71% to 94%, and carry out centralized feeding management. Only in this way can it be effective, and the requirements are very strict. The most important thing is not to feed or abandon at will.

In fact, there is no problem with three or five sterilized stray cats in a community. If you have nothing to do, the happiness of residents in the community can be improved. Children can cultivate love and be close to nature.

Protection work often starts with such simple kindness.

But hundreds of thousands of stray cats in a city far exceed the carrying capacity of the ecosystem.

As for the hunting and killing of stray cats, the problem is not a simple ecological problem, but also a social problem.

Simple and rough hunting can effectively reduce the number of stray cats, but it will arouse the disgust of many people.

It can only be used when the ecological environment is seriously threatened, protecting endangered wild animals or controlling severe infectious diseases.

In fact, euthanasia is also a good way, but it is also a matter of acceptance, which requires us to continue to popularize science. ”