Doctor Mindy and her great staff at All Paws takes care of the feral cats in Perryville. Mike and Ike wouldn't let us bring them to any other vet. We recommend All Paws to all our pet lovers.

They are too sweet. Great photos and how nice to know that people in that area care for them. And the vet. Wow. Kudos to you all.

They need to be removed, cats do not belong in the wild and the people that feed them should not.

The cats need to be removed and euthanized. Stray cats decimate song bird populations and are NOT a part of an ecosystem. They don't even eat what they kill...if you want a cat and want to feed it and keep it inside or in your own yard then fine, but to subsidize a bunch of feral cats at the expense of everything else that flys or crawls is ignorant.

Thank you, Karl Schuub, for your compassionate support of song birds. All Paws Vets doesn't feed abandoned cats; it doesn't "subsidize" feral cats. The good vet, staff and volunteers remove cats from Perryville's streets, woods and parks, treat them at its own expense, and finds them adopting owners. Obviously you like songbirds a lot. Cuddle up with one of them. Don't pick on people trying to help reduce animal suffering, educating to stop animal neglect, offering cheap or free animal neutering and trying to reduce needless killing of God's creatures,great or small.

My husband and I have friends that live on Smith Island, Maryland. For years the feral cat population was out of control. There were some very sick cats too. A few years back, a group of veterinarians visited the island a few times over a period of about a year & they treated the sick and injured, vaccinated, or euthanized if there was no other choice. They also spayed/neutered all of the adult cats and "notched" an ear so if they caught the same cat, they could let it go right away knowing it already had been captured & treated. This process took a long time & lots of patience. Many of these were kittens & once they were treated they were released to be recaptured when they were old enough to be spayed/neutered. Now when we visit, there are very few feral cats, but they are healthy & the population is under control. We love animals. We have a cat & a herd of Chihuahuas! I don't believe the Perryville cats should be euthanized unless they are sick. It isn't their fault they are without a home. Some unresponsible person got a cat, didn't get it "fixed" (so it most likely added to the population) & got tired of it, so it ended up on the street. They are predators by nature, so a songbird is going to get caught up in the cycle of life now & then. I feed birds at my house too, so I don't have anything against birds. Just don't punish the cats. There should be more strict punishment for the humans who put them in their current situation.

OK, If your going to argue that feral cats should be simply killed because they are killing wildlife where they are living then you are an compassionate idiot, Because i'm sure when your house (or whatever you live in) was built did damage to the wildlife that was living there before... and if you have ever hit a native animal driving your air polluting car (which also kills wildlife) down one of the millions of roads that took up native wildlife space are doing more damage than these cats that didn't choose to live there and are just trying to survive...... the cats can me nurtured/spayed so they do not produce more cats and the population will eventually drop, so maybe YOU should do the native wildlife a favor and euthanize yourself :)

the cats are being fed so aren't going to eat the song birds. the reason the cats are there is because some human had a cat didn't get it fixed. next thing you know you have hundreds of homeless cats that would suffer if weren't for the many caring people that tend to them. you can't expect a cat that was born on the street to be a sweet kitty you can have as a house pet. be thankful people care, use their own money for TNR or even finding homes for the lucky ones. i know the expense. we need more vets like The All Paws vet.

that Karl guy needs to be informed and educated about what people are doing to reduce the cat population. maybe he should go to All paws and help for a day and see how hard these men and women work to prevent more suffering among the homeless cats

aaron too needs to be educated maybe get a cat as a pet

please take more pictures of the cats to get people aware
of the need of fixing you pets

FYI: Karl..I am not a "feral cat person". I like animals, but I'm not a hoarder. You are obviously a person who thinks that their way is the only way. "Slow starvation, freezing to death,contracting rabies or beng hit by a car; not painless euthanasia" ....Those cats are well fed, which is obvious in the pictures, they are smart animals and I haven't heard many stories of cats freezing to death...they are being cared for by a vet, so I am sure they have been given vaccinations to help with the rabies issue....now the hit by car I'll give you, but you could get hit by a car today too. I am sure there are other living creatures who cause damage to our ecosytem, including humans. Hmmmm...euthanasia for them too?

Karl, Why is killing these cats preferable to you instead of education, neutering, treatment and adoption? The first approach just reduces the stray and feral population by a few and temporarily; the latter by many and for the long-term. I don't get you.

Karl, all I said was there are other living creatures...I'm not comparing humans to cats, but there is obviously no getting through to you because you are going to argue and make stupid comments no matter what anybody says on here. You must be a very miserable person. I, on the other hand, have more important things to do than to waste my time reasoning with you.

Oh i Love Karl's logic! i understand now, when we don't like something we should just kill it instead of try to fit it! brilliant!... you know my hair stylist didn't do a good enough job on my hair last time, think i'll kill her, and i'm not liking the way the mayor is running the town, we should just kill him too, there are to many elderly people in the world, they are hazardous drivers... lets give them a shot... its OK because its painless!

criminals and sex offenders don't belong at large either we should kill all of them too. karl needs to get a grip and not worth responding to since he believes his way is the right way and only way good bye karl stay safe watch the card. meow

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...i just wanted to thank you for informing us that house cats don't belong in the wild..... We all know that feral cats don't belong at large... thats why they are being spayed/neutered and given shots so the population will not grow any larger or become rabid and instead start to decrease.... i'm pretty sure that was said i few times in the thread, i thought this was an easy concept but apparently not...Maybe instead of complaining that they are killing your ever so important songbirds you should help to fix the problem. anyone can complain about something.

LOL! I agree that Karl is not worth wasting time on any more. Maybe the rabid feral cats will visit Karl on a freezing cold day, eat all of his food so they don't starve, then drag him out into the roadway so that a car....nevermind...I wouldn't want anyone's car to be damaged...maybe the cats will bring the songbirds and let them peck some sense into Karl! :)