What is the difference between a stray cat and a feral cat?
A stray cat is someone’s pet who has become lost or is abandoned. A feral cat is born in the wild or has reverted to a “wild” lifestyle in order to survive on its own. Stray cats are usually tame and comfortable with people. They will rub against legs, purr, and meow. Feral cats are notably quiet and keep their distance. Most feral cats will only venture out at night. Stray cats will also often try to make a home near humans—in car garages, front porches or backyards. Most are completely reliant on humans as a food source and are not yet able to cope with life on the streets.
There is absolutely NO difference between a stray and a feral cat. BOTH are INVASIVE-SPECIES that are destroying all the native wildlife (native prey becomes tortured cats’ playtoys, native predators starve to death from INVASIVE-SPECIES cats destroying their ONLY food source). BOTH are spreading many deadly diseases (including even the plague today) to all other animals and humans. BOTH are illegally trespassing on others’ property.
Perhaps cat-owners should learn the distinction between being a responsible pet-owner and a criminally irresponsible one. If not, too bad. The rest of the world is not your pet’s baby-sitter. A highly destructive INVASIVE-SPECIES pet at that. That’s YOUR job to keep them from harm lest you be held criminally responsible for animal-abandonment, animal-endangerment, and animal-cruelty laws.
Would you care to watch out for the safety and well-being of about 150,000,000 pet piranha released into all your waterways, lakes, swimming areas, and backyard pools? It’s the EXACT same thing that cat-owners would be requesting by having everyone treat their stray cats differently from feral cats.
