Quote from News Article: “There is another colony there with the potential for a highly contagious disease that is mixing with this cat colony.
What part of this am I not understanding? Would it not be even more important/urgent to spay/neuter a colony that "has a potential" for a highly contagious disease than to have them continually breeding. Or is it that (which is not written) that the SPCA is suggesting that these animals be killed for being at "risk of having feline leukemia".
In the big picture all cats, not just ferals can be at risk for getting feline leukemia. Some are born with it. The SPCA is crying poor and walking away when its mandate is to prevent suffering. What better way than to spay/neuter which reduces a colony's size which leads to less cats to spread a disease they may or may not have.
Durante said the SPCA — hurting financially as many groups are during the economic downturn — can’t afford to continue the program for a colony at high risk of an epidemic.
“We don’t have the funding to provide the spay and neuter program for this colony when it runs a high risk of intermingling with this other colony, that is proven to have this communicable disease.