Why exterminate stray cats when there is a better, more humane and more permanent answer to the problem of excessive cat numbers
in our towns and villages?

Extermination in a village over-run by cats, doesn’t work because un-neutered cats from other villages will take over the territory previously occupied by those exterminated cats, and the breeding continues - this is known as the 'vacuum effect' and it has been proven to relate to animals of other species as well. A different approach is needed.

Part of that approach would be, with the Mayor’s cooperation, to catch and neuter all stray cats within a village, which means that the neutered cats remain where they are, they keep out un-neutered stray cats from elsewhere, and gradually reduce in number due to non-breeding. These cats will be healthier and hence more useful in keeping down vermin. Within a properly organised programme the process would move from village to village.