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Feral Cats

Feral Cats

Research, along with personal experience, has shown that free-ranging cats and feral cats pose a significant environmental threat to our native bird, amphibian, and reptilian species. House cats are implicated in significant reductions of song birds in North America and elsewhere. In addition, cats present a disease threat. They are frequently involved in rabies (link brings you to the Centers for Disease Control) exposures and are a key source of the parasitic infection, Toxoplasmosis.

The cover of the book, The Practical Guide to the Control of Feral Cats by Stephen M. Vantassel, CWCP, ACE.
The Practical Guide to the Control of Feral Cats by Stephen M. Vantassel, CWCP, ACE. It is available at Lulu.com, Amazon.com and elsewhere.

Solution to the Cat Problem?

Having trouble with feral cats? Written with a no-nonsense approach, readers will understand how to use traps, and exclusion to remove free-range cats from the landscape. In short, you will have the knowledge to get the job done right the first time. Stop believing the persistent propaganda by the trap-neuter-and release (TNR) crowd. The evidence that TNR actually works in the real world is thin at best. In the mean time, cats are still killing our native species and posing as a potential disease threats.  

What about Trap Wise Cats?

Have your previous trapping methods or attempts at removal failed? If you are dealing with “educated” cats, this this book will help you efficiently resolve this pest problem, even with “educated” feral cats.  As the book explains tips and tricks to help overcome the shyness inherent in cats that have been educated by past trapping attempts.

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Stephen M. Vantassel, CWCP, ACE, is the owner of Wildlife Control Consultant, LLC. He helps people restore their balance with nature through publishing, training, consulting, and the internet. He has published numerous articles in trade and academic publications (http://kingsdivinity.academia.edu/StephenMVantassel) along with several books (https://wildlifecontrolconsultant.com/store-2/). Listen to his podcast at PestGeek Podcast (https://pestgeekpodcast.com/). He is a sought after speaker and trainer. If you would like to have Stephen speak at your event or use his consultation services, send an e-mail to wildlifecontrolconsultant@gmail.com. Copyright All postings are the property of Stephen M. Vantassel and Wildlife Control Consultant, LLC. Text (not images) may be reprinted in non-profit publications provided that the author and website URL is included. If images wish to be used, explicit and written permission must be obtained from Wildlife Control Consultant, LLC.

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Toxoplasmosis Lobby

Toxoplasmosis Lobby

Practical Guide to the Control of Feral Cats by Stephen M. Vantassel
Practical Guide to the Control of Feral Cats by Stephen M. Vantassel

Supporters of feral cat colonies and legal protection for free-range cats constitute what I call the “Toxoplasmosis Lobby.” In my opinion, these individuals believe that a cat’s right to defecate on your property trumps your right to protect your property from this dangerous infection.

I find it interesting that in all the rancor about the status of free-range cats, no one has effectively used this argument against the Toxoplasmosis Lobby.  It could be because the Toxoplasmosis Lobby have learned how to shout down opposition. I have experienced their “moral outrage” first hand. They are highly organized and can quickly fill your inbox or online bulletin with a litany of repetitive accusations ranging from “you are cruel” to “you are unscientific” to “you are Medieval”. Those with less time or a weaker spine actually become influenced by this nonsense so they back down in fear that the onslaught will continue.

But it is also possible that the public is not aware of research showing that toxoplasmosis is dangerous even at the subclinical level. Subclinical infections are those that don’t cause symptoms severe enough for people to be aware of. Like an alligator waiting for prey, subclinical infections lie just below the surface doing damage but not at a rate or severity that will trigger symptoms that would suggest there is a problem. At least, the symptoms don’t arise until it is too late.

If you don’t think toxoplasmosis is a problem, visit http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/03/how-your-cat-is-making-you-crazy/308873/. The findings there may frighten you.

 

About the Author

Stephen M. Vantassel is a certified wildlife control operator who helps individuals, businesses, and agencies resolve wildlife damage issues through training, writing, expert witness, and research. His latest books are the Wildlife Damage Inspection Handbook, 3rd edition and The Practical Guide to the Control of Feral Cats. He can be contacted at wildlifecontrolconsultant at gmail dot com.

If you would like your publication, video, or product reviewed, please contact the author at the e-mail above.

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All postings are the property of Stephen M. Vantassel and Wildlife Control Consultant, LLC. Text (not images) may be reprinted in non-profit publications provided that the author and website URL is included. If images wish to be used, explicit and written permission must be obtained from Wildlife Control Consultant, LLC.

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The Practical Guide for the Control of Feral Cats

The Practical Guide for the Control of Feral Cats

Wildlife Control Consultant, LLC is pleased to announce the publication of Stephen M.

Practical Guide to the Control of Feral Cats by Stephen M. Vantassel
Practical Guide to the Control of Feral Cats by Stephen M. Vantassel

Vantassel’s latest book, The Practical Guide to the Control of Feral Cats.

With the environmental, health, and nuisance issues related to the presence of feral cats, the time is right for a guide to help landowners, environmentalists, and wildlife control operators resolve feral cat issues.

This guide covers

  • feral cat biology,
  • identification of sign left by feral cats,
  • less-lethal control methods,
  • lethal control methods (including shooting and trapping)
  • euthanasia,
  • and more.

Book is 6×9 inches, 106 pages, with 70 black and white images.

The book is available in

Print $20.00

Lulu e-book  $19.99 (this version has color and black and white images)

Amazon e-book

Dealer inquiries welcomed.

About the Author

Stephen M. Vantassel is a certified wildlife control operator who helps individuals, businesses, and agencies resolve wildlife damage issues through training, writing, expert witness, and research. His latest book is the Wildlife Damage Inspection Handbook, 3rd edition. He can be contacted at wildlifecontrolconsultant at gmail dot com.

If you would like your publication, video, or product reviewed, please contact the author at the e-mail above.

Copyright

All postings are the property of Stephen M. Vantassel and Wildlife Control Consultant, LLC. Text (not images) may be reprinted in non-profit publications provided that the author and website URL is included. If images wish to be used, explicit and written permission must be obtained from Wildlife Control Consultant, LLC.

 

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Trapping Doesn’t Work to Control House Cats?

A homeless "feral" cat.
Free-ranging cats are an environmental menace to native species. Image via Wikipedia

Trapping Doesn’t Work to Control House Cats?

In an article entitled, “A Soft, Furry, Stone-cold Killer Researchers say domestic, feral cats kill as many as 1 billion birds a year” published in the Columbus Dispatch, June 12, 2011 03:13 AM By Spencer Hunt (Columbus, OH)    http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/science/stories/2011/06/12/a-soft-furry-stone-cold-killer.html?sid=101, a person was cited as saying that trapping doesn’t work to control cats because it is too hard to catch all of them.

An Evaluation of the Claim that Trapping Cats Doesn’t Work

A friend of mine asked a rather interesting question. If trapping should be dismissed as a control method for free-ranging house cats, then how can Trap, Neuter, and Release (TNR) Advocates claim that TNR works when you have to catch the cats first? If you can’t catch all the cats to remove them how can you catch all the cats to neuter them?

Could this interesting admission by a possible advocate of the TNR so-called solution to the feral cat problem be the reason why TNR doesn’t work to control free-ranging cat colonies?

Trapping Cats Does Work

The fact is trapping cats does work and it is far less expensive than TNR in both environmental devastation and actual cost. If you doubt this, just ask yourself, how can it be more expensive to trap a cat and then neuter it than to trap it and euthanize it? In addition, euthanized cats don’t spread diseases and don’t ravage native wildlife. If the Humane Society of the United States or any other group that opposes trapping on the basis that “it doesn’t work”, have them contact me. I can put them in touch with some trappers who are very effective at catching all kinds of animals. And I think if you ask them nice they might even be willing to share their tips to those lesser trappers.

Stephen M. Vantassel is a Certified Wildlife Control Professional and a dedicated naturalist who is saddened that so many people think that the environmental devastation wreaked by free-ranging cats should be tolerated.

 

 

 

 

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Stephen M. Vantassel, MNI, CNI, CWCP, ACP, ACE Stephen M. Vantassel's Bio Stephen M. Vantassel is the Vertebrate Pest Specialist for the Montana Department of Agriculture (2015-present). Formerly, Stephen M. Vantassel was the Program Coordinator of Distance Education-Wildlife Damage Management for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln School of Natural Resources from 2004-2014. Stephen filled … Learn More

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