Longcore's Urban Wildlands lawsuit win is beginning to have a chilling impact: Vets are no longer accepting City S/N vouchers if they are marked feral. These certificates are useless. Fewer and fewer cats are being spay/neutered now because of Longcore's lawsuit.
This means that maybe 15-20,000 ferals that would have been "fixed" are not going to be this years, which means bumper crops of feral kittens this year and next until the city gets off its lazy ass and does a CEQA study on TNR.
For the first time we will be able to see the effectiveness of the City's prior TNR practices versus its legal shut out of TNR now because of Travis Longcore. I suspect we will see at least another 2,000 ADDITIONAL kittens being killed in the shelters and at least another 1,000 adult cats, and at the same time, a massive increase in live ferals on the streets due to Lonhcore's poorly thought out lawsuit and its unintended consequences.
The again, maybe this is what he wanted: the problem to become so big that the City has to step in and start killing ferals at a massively increased rate.
All of this is laid at the doorstep of Travis Longcore and Urban Wildlands Group. Look them up on google and tell them what you think.
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