Saving feral cats is really no kindness

Regarding the Las Vegas Sun’s Thursday story headlined “She’d ‘legalize’ feral cats to save them”:

I am writing to present another point of view regarding the supposedly compassionate management of the feral cat problem here in Las Vegas, by trapping and neutering. I do not see how releasing these cats back into their neighborhoods is to their benefit.

I have personally had to deal with the mockingbirds, woodpeckers, doves, quail, baby cottontails and native lizards they have destroyed and left on my lawn for me to clean up. Also, I have had to pick up several of them after they had been hit by cars, then crawled onto my lawn to die.

I simply do not understand the mind-set of people who feel it is somehow kind to allow them to roam around, being injured and destroying the native wildlife. It is also a fact that many wild cats will not allow themselves to be trapped, so the idea of neutering them will never succeed in the long run.