According to current legislation, all abandoned animals living in a city are the responsibility of the city council. Therefore, each municipality is directly or indirectly responsible for their collection. Recently, however, the issue of stray cats living in colonies has been creating a major conflict.
The policy currently followed in most municipalities is to try to avoid their collection as much as possible and to manage these colonies in terms of the number of individuals that make up each, through sterilization. For this, the famous programs called CES are started, which include the capture of the cats in question, their sterilization and then their return to the street.
However, for these to be effective, it is important to sterilize at least all of the females that make up the colony in question, as well as to control the abandonment of the animals in them. It is clear that maintaining effective control of this species is very complex when launching a range of abandoned animals as Spain offers.
To all of the above, a number of warning messages have been added recently from the scientific community. All acknowledge and emphasize that the myriad presence of cats on the street has changed and reduced the population of wildlife, especially birds.
This issue can also be worrisome, because while nature is wise and knows how to perfectly balance the different conditions that can affect the survival of any species, in reality, everything can break when man intervenes in some way.
Therefore, and although it is not easy to find a solution that will please everyone, we must try to achieve it. At the very least, it’s about reaching some minimum agreement that benefits everyone, not against anyone, and of course ensures their well-being. It’s the least they deserve, because if that doesn’t happen, in the end, and as always, the poor animals will pay for it.