Cat Sitting In A Flower Pot
by Deborah League
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Cat Sitting In A Flower Pot
Artist
Deborah League
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Photograph - Photograph
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Cat Sitting In A Flower Pot Fine Art Photography. One lucky feral cat just lazing away the day in a green potted plant on Oahu, Hawaii near the beach. He actually looks a bit bored to me.
Oahu is estimated to be home to more than 300,000 of the estimated 2 million feral cats that roam the Hawaiian Islands. European colonists originally brought cats to the islands after using them as natural rodent-control systems on shipboard. The earliest documentary evidence attesting to the presence of wild cats in Hawaii is a passage in the writings of explorer William Breckenridge dating to 1840. Mark Twain, after touring Honolulu in 1866, also wrote that he had seen “Tom cats, Mary Ann cats…platoons of cats…regiments of cats…millions of cats.”
While some of the ships’ cats eventually became pets, most were left to fend for themselves. Lacking larger predatory mammals in Hawaii, the feral cats were able to survive, thrive, and reproduce amidst a rich buffet of many smaller, more vulnerable native animals. This has led to what some call Hawaii's "cat crisis."
In recent years, some of the damage from feral cats has been mitigated, thanks to Hawaii’s teams of land managers and predator controllers. As state policy, Hawaii has to date relied on the capture, spaying or neutering, and adoption of feral cats.
Some groups, like the Kauai Community Cat Project, believe in the efficacy of TNR, which stands for “trap, neuter, release.” This requires catching feral cats, having them sterilized by a veterinarian, and releasing them back where they were found, always supported by plenty of regular meals.
The KCCP volunteers believe that their work is a humane way to upgrade the wild cats’ living conditions, address the overwhelming overpopulation problem, and curb the loss of native birds. The Hawaiian Humane Society has humane traps available for rent on Oahu. The city and county of Honolulu subsidizes free sterilization of free-roaming cats at participating veterinary providers.
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January 25th, 2022
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