Talk:Feral cat

message: Since towns and cities are part of these animals' range, :Category:Urban wildlife seems appropriate. 151.177.58.208 (talk) 01:23, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request 20 February 2022 

message: In section 4.3 Diet, paragraph 2: "Although some people advocate for feral cats as a means to control pigeons and invasive rodents like the house mouse and brown rat, these cosmopolitan species co-evolved with cats in human-disturbed environments, and so have an advantage over native rodents in evading cat predation."
Change to: "In the United States, some people advocate for feral cats as a means to control pigeons and invasive rodents like the house mouse and brown rat. However, these cosmopolitan species co-evolved with cats in human-disturbed environments, and so have an advantage over native rodents in evading cat predation."
This is because native and invasive are relative terms and require geographical specificity to be meaningful. Panickyintheuk (talk) 16:12, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. --Mvqr (talk) 16:24, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 21 August 2022 

message: Please fix the name of Christopher A. Lepczyk. Here  it says "Lepczyk", and in the article text it says Lepcyzk. "Lepcyzk" is completely unpronounceable, as opposed to "Lepczyk" that sounds quite natural to a Polish speaker.
Christopher's ORCID page also says "Lepczyk" . Grzejab (talk) 15:55, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 5 November 2022 

message: To accurately summarize the findings in the citations used, please change:
"Scientific evidence has demonstrated that TNR is not effective at controlling feral cat populations.[5][6]"
to
"Scientific evidence has demonstrated that TNR is not always effective at controlling feral cat populations unless all colony members can be sterilized, and surgeries can keep up with the rate of cats abandoned by owners.[5][6]" Bachboy (talk) 23:25, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Source 5 says,   and Source 6 says,  . Geogene (talk) 01:04, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 26 January 2023 

message: 46.196.193.165 (talk) 10:15, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: The relevant section contains enough equivocation already  small jars tc 10:29, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

text: That's an interesting opinion piece. But when people find themselves typing something very close to 'we are not science deniers' in a journal, I think it's fair to wonder whether the viewpoint they're defending has any significant following at all. Geogene (talk) 14:56, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 18 February 2023 

message: — Assignment last updated by Mcking24 (talk) 13:55, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Conservation biology

message: First, apologies for my bad English. 
I've added some data with reference in the section "Australia", but I can't do the same here due to the protection from edition. Can anyone add the text below? 
I've also published the article Felixer related to this subject
 
 For these reasons, eradication campaigns are carried out in Australia using various methods; the most widespread, through the use of a bait specially designed to not affect native carnivores, called Curiosity, which contains the poison called compound 1080—sodium fluoroacetate—with a special encapsulation that only breaks with cats' teeth. (Reference: https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/invasive-species/feral-animals-australia/feral-cats/curiosity-bait )
 More recently, a device called Felixer has been developed, which uses the same poison and differentiates between cats and the rest of the fauna, and takes advantage of the cat's grooming behavior to shoot a measured dose of a gel with poison on its fur. 
Thanks. Linuxmanía (talk) 12:50, 24 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: This is promising, but the citation needs to be properly formatted (Template:Cite web), and the second claim needs a source. Also "that only breaks with cats' teeth" not a plausible claim; maybe something like "designed to break with cats' teeth in particular" or something otherwise more moderate.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  14:27, 24 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Felixer and Curiosity data added in Spanish article 

message: There is no reason for this to be a section. What little we can use from this reverted edit simply belongs at or near the top of the "Effects on wildlife" section (and really that section should move to be a subsection of "Behavior and ecology"; it's confusing for them to be widely separated like this, since their effect on wildlife is a subtopic of their ecology). The salvageable material from the reverted edit is probably only the following (after deletion of WP:OR editorializing against a source, removal of blathering about what the source's purposes are, some formatting cleanup, and following the source material much more closely):
This would actually be a good first sentence for the section.
The reste of the material Xhkvfq tried to add is more off-topic blathering about the nature of the "100" list (this is not the 100 of the World's Worst Invasive Alien Species article), personal opinion-mongering about how it must be interpreted, and what amounts to excuse-making for cats by pointing fingers at other species that are not the subject of this article. That was inappropriate material and it was right to revert it.
I'll take up the policy problems with Xhkvfq's approach at User talk:Xhkvfq.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  23:21, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Invasive species 

message: Stray and feral cats are not the same thing, and the way this article is written is misleading and contributing to a lot of misinformation. I've raised domesticated cats from the time they were kittens, strays, and ferals.  A stray cat can revert to a domesticated cat, but a feral cat cannot, although it will give the superficial appearance of resembling a domestic or a stray to a casual observer, their behavior is not the same and they have altogether different reactions to their environment.  A domestic cat raised from the appropriate young age will exhibit highly socialized, dog-like behavior.  A stray, if it experienced this kind of early socialization, will also exhibit much of the same behavior, with certain caveats.  A feral may mimic some of this behavior to an observer, but does not actually engage in it, it's kind of like going through the motions since it knows it will get food, treats, or pets. Viriditas (talk) 01:53, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stray and feral