The NYC Feral Cat Initiative, which helps New York City’s stray and feral cats, has inadvertently reduced rat sightings in community-cat-hosted areas. Part of the initiative, a program of the Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals, is to perform Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR), and its goal is to humanely reduce the population of “community cats” in New York […]
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