WATCH: The City of Toronto is no longer euthanizing feral cats, upsetting some residents who consider the animals a nuisance. Jackson Proskow reports.
Toronto – The City of Toronto’s trap-neuter-return policy for feral cats has some residents upset over how the program is being managed.
The bylaw, which officially came into effect Thursday, is intended to reduce the feral cat overpopulation in the Greater Toronto Area and improve the welfare of homeless cats.
But some members of the community, especially in Kingston and Birchmount Road area, are concerned the cats are getting into garbage bags and using their backyards as public washrooms. In some cases, birds in the area are being killed by these felines.
The Toronto Feral Cat TNR Coalition, one of a number of community groups working together to address the feral cat problem in the city, insists there are just under a dozen neighbourhoods where feral cats pose a problem.
According to the coalition, there are at least 100,000 homeless cats in Toronto and approximately 400 kittens born on city streets everyday during the spring and summer.
Some residents would like certain feral cat communities removed or relocated but animal groups say better colony management is the key.
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