The Village of Babylon is contemplating a plan to cease individuals from feeding or harboring feral cats.
Mayor Mary Adams mentioned the feral cat state of affairs is harmful. Adams mentioned a code enforcement officer was injured making an attempt to cease a person who was feeding feral cats.
“The code enforcement officer’s foot was run over as a result of that they had advised her to please depart, you possibly can’t preserve doing this,” mentioned Adams.
The mayor mentioned residents have been complaining a couple of person feeding feral cats, particularly in Southards Pond Park.
“Plates of meals (had been ignored) and the plates had been blowing into Southards and the meals is not simply staying on the road, however going into Southards, we have had raccoons come out in the course of the day, we have had different animals come out,” Adams mentioned.
Animal advocates are pushing for the village to implement a TNR or lure, neuter and launch program.
“The most humane method to attack the feral cat drawback is by providing a low-cost or no-cost TNR program,” mentioned advocate John Debacker.
He additionally mentioned the ban on feeding feral cats may result in larger issues.
“It’s not eliminating the cat drawback, the cats are nonetheless going to be there on the lookout for different sources of meals,” Debacker mentioned.
No determination in regards to the proposed ban was made at Tuesday’s public listening to.
Adams advised the group she plans to speak with animal advocates and organizations to provide you with a humane method to assist with the feral cat drawback.
