Caught four cats today

This morning I was out trapping in a housing estate.  A lady is feeding 8 cats at her house and she decided it was time to call a halt on the breeding especially as spring is around the corner and the cats will begin breeding again soon. Caught 4 today including a gorgeous longhaired white cat. Apparently it was in an awful state when it arrived at her house, scrawny and dirty but with plenty of good food and worming, it has blossomed into a truly lovely cat. There are 2 young kittens which were not around today when I was there so not sure if they are old enough to be done, I'll make a decision when I see them. Hopefully we'll get the remaining 2 adults tomorrow.

I'm delighted to be trapping in this estate as I got a call last year from a man in the estate who said there were 20 cats in his garden.  I was away the day he phoned and when I returned the call the next day he said the cats had gone which was a shame as it would have been great to have trapped/neutered/returned them.  There are always people in housing estates willing to feed cats, it's just a matter of keeping the numbers down.  Otherwise when the number of cats rise and there's a lot of tom cats howling, fighting and spraying and sick, starving kittens running around, people tend to take matters into their own hands and start putting poison down or whatever.  And we don't want that!  

Prevention is always the answer.  We need to move away from the Breed, Breed, Breed and then Kill, Kill, Kill mentality.  And embrace prevention in the form of spaying/neutering.