These are farm cats, Sarah, and to borrow a phrased turned by Thomas Hobbes, the lives of farm cats tend to be "nasty, brutish, and short". My brother's family has made the decision to take care of the care insofar as they are able, but the population ebbs and flows. I counted 17 cats during my stay, but the population has been as high as 30.
These cats are not feral in the strict sense of the word, but they are not house cats by any means. Some become victims of the local wildlife, some live around the margins, but there is simply no way to feed, spay, neuter, or immunize so many animals. My brother is a man of limited means, after all.
Better question: at what point do you start doing more than feeding (i.e. flea collars, shots, neutering)?
These are farm cats, Sarah, and to borrow a phrased turned by Thomas Hobbes, the lives of farm cats tend to be "nasty, brutish, and short". My brother's family has made the decision to take care of the care insofar as they are able, but the population ebbs and flows. I counted 17 cats during my stay, but the population has been as high as 30.
These cats are not feral in the strict sense of the word, but they are not house cats by any means. Some become victims of the local wildlife, some live around the margins, but there is simply no way to feed, spay, neuter, or immunize so many animals. My brother is a man of limited means, after all.