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Decades of euthanizing free-roaming stray and feral cats has not resulted in a sustained reduction in their numbers or improved the health and safety of communities or cats (“Time for a Cat Management Plan,” July 11, 2012). Trap and kill is not only ineffective and unpopular with citizens, it’s a poor use of limited municipal funds.
The alternative is a strategy known as Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) in which feral cats are spayed and neutered, rabies vaccinated and ear tipped to identify them as sterilized. After TNR, the cats’ health improves because they no longer reproduce and fight over mates, and nuisance behaviors are greatly reduced or eliminated. To help curb plague and other flea-borne diseases, flea control for the colony is also important.

In response to the article on “Time for Cat Management,” I totally agree with the author. It’s time to impose cat licensing and consequences for the owners of free-roaming cats. In our neighborhood, we have a cat that kills birds at my birdfeeder, digs holes and poops in my yard and induces my indoor only cat to spray the house marking his territory whenever he sees the neighbor’s cat outside.

Let’s hear it for Jeff Merkley.  Any of you who watched the testimony of big time Bankster Jamie Dimon [JP Morgan Chase CEO] to the Senate Finance Committee should be proud of our Senator.  The Republicans on the Committee, especially Jim DeMint of South Carolina were so cravenly obsequious it was nauseating.  DeMint seemed ready at any minute to fall on the floor and give Dimon a shoeshine with his tongue.  It was obvious the Republicans on the committee were bought by the great Master of the Banking Universe whose brilliant stewardship just cost his bank anywhere from three to nine billion bucks, all of it Federally Insured money that would require taxpayers to bail out if the bank goes belly up.

In response to Bill Hause’s list of injustices (Letters, 7-12) to which men would be subjected if there had been Founding Mothers, they would also experience, on a regular basis, various subtle and insidious ways that our language and use of words serve to “keep men in their place” in today’s culture.
Perhaps most rampant would be the use of the apparently benign term “gals” to refer to groups of both women and men and also to groups of only men (in comparison to the way the word “guys” is used under the Founding Fathers model).