Estimates are there are at least 45,000, and maybe as many as 90,000, free-roaming cats in the City of Buffalo. In this week's Press Pass, WBFO's Mark Scott sits down with Buffalo Spree Editor Elizabeth Licata to talk about some of the problems these cats are posing and a possible solution.
Free roaming cats include feral cats, those that are allowed to spent significant time outside the home or cats released by owners who can no longer take care of them. Elizabeth Licata says they're known as "community cats." The September issue of Buffalo Spree has an article on ways of stabilizing the cat population. Groups such as the SPCA of Erie County are pushing a method called “Trap, Neuter, Vaccinate and Return” or TNVR.
Licata also talks about her commentary in the September issue where she has words of praise for recent improvements made at Three Sisters Island near the brink of Niagara Falls.