The root cause of all the unwanted animals in this area is the irresponsibility or inability of pet owners to have their pets spayed or neutered. Our goal is to reduce the number of unwanted and stray cats by trapping and fixing feral cats.  Our organization, Felines Under Rescue, in our first 2 1/2 years of existence has had more than 600 stray or feral cats sterilized, thus eliminating thousands of homeless kittens being born.  Unfortunately, since we have nowhere for them to go after they are fixed, we have to release them where we trapped them and hope that caregivers will feed them.

Many pet owners just cannot afford the price of a spay or neuter. The truth is that until there is a low-cost spay and neuter program for pet owners in this area who are unemployed, are senior citizens or are experiencing financial hardship, the problem of so many stray and homeless cats and dogs will never be solved.  It would be nice to live in an area where we never saw starving and homeless cats and dogs foraging in the garbage cans for food and wandering aimlessly along the highways.