To reduce the number of cats euthanized each year in the El Paso area. Bring trapped feral cats from your area to participating veterinarians to have them spayed or castrated and vaccinated against Rabies. Release the sterile cats back into their original environment allowing them to stabilize the population without increasing colony numbers. Vaccinating against rabies helps prevent the spread of this fatal disease to people and their pets. Castrating male cats helps to reduce behaviors such as fighting, urine marking and late night howling.
Less fighting decreases the spread of infectious diseases.
Fewer young mouths to feed means better nutrition and health for the existing colony. Trapping and removing cats from an area opens up a slot for another fertile cat to repopulate. Sterilizing and returning to the area helps keeps another fertile cat from entering the area. True wild cats are rarely tamed and do not make good household pets. Removing the cats from their environment merely opens up the niche for other wild cats to move in and does little to control the population numbers.