Pest Pressure: Feral Cats, Lyme Disease and Ticks
Dr. Stuart Mitchell
What? Feral cat, Felis catus Where? Decaying urban infrastructures Why? As top-of-the-food-chain carnivore predators, adult cats become strays and then feral if their offspring don’t have early contact with humans. If adult feral cats aren’t spayed or neutered, a female cat can become pregnant at five months old. As a result, feral cat populations within […]
