Looks like it. I kinda want to knit one now. But more of an Aran cable style.

Same

The alternative is euthanasia or leaving them to populate out of control.

It’s an old system that is due for updates

You do not want to be caught with rabies if a DNR officer stops you and you don’t have a tag.

I should call her

I can’t take that away from you.

More clacky

These are like small aluminum discs so it would be like clanging to dimes together as far as resonance goes.

Some people won’t tell you they were alive during the '80s. But there will be signs.

I am from the internet. I’m here to confuse.

The animals were already abandoned. We’re playing cleanup

There’s a very sad story involving North Korea and giant rabbits

Big! If true.

Both designs are wrong. But one of them is bordering on brutalism and depression.

That’s the best size of kitten.

I’ve always wanted to breed toy kittens. But my issues with kitten mills and pet overpopulation have prevented me from doing that. We have teacup dogs. But we don’t have teacup cats. I want to breed giant Russian, dwarf, hamsters and dwarf kittens. But I can’t and I shouldn’t.

The rabies tag should never be put on a collar. Collars get lost. Collars get broken and fall off. Break away collars get left behind. The tags are for your records, not for the animal’s collar.

They were abandoned before we trapped neutered and vaccinated them.

You want to fix the issue? Advocate for spaying and neutering pets.

I love that you asked about dogs. We didn’t used to have spaying in neutering as a common thing for dogs. In the 1950s dogs roamed in packs throughout every neighborhood. They bred out of control. They spread disease. They attacked people. " You couldn’t get elected as dog catcher" or variations along that phrase used to being incredibly common. Because it was a extremely common profession. Someone had to deal with all those stray dogs. And then we fixed it. We started encouraging spaying and neutering of dogs. So now instead of roving packs of dogs that would get rounded up and euthanized The population was controlled. Now if you see a stray dog, you wonder which house it escaped from. Back in the '50s you didn’t ask that question. You just knew that it was a stray dog living moment by moment with no owners.

Fix yo damn pets.

Because they came from the wild. It’s the space they know. They know where the food, water and shelter are. These aren’t cute cuddly kittens. These are adult feral cats that will rip your face off. They can’t be adopted. The alternative is euthanasia. So we put them back where we find them.

Unless we notice something weird. We caught one that wasn’t coming out of sedation correctly. Very cold and twitching. We cuddled them up and kept them warm. We knew we weren’t in danger because they were really not able to manage themself much less attack us.

They recovered and we kept them for observation for a few days. Dude was chill. We found that he had some kind of neurological issues. His back legs never worked correctly. We adopted him because there was no chance of him surviving in the wild. He was with us for just a couple of years before his kidneys failed.

But most cats, 99%, aren’t chill. They will ram themselves against the trap. They will claw and bite you. Cats aren’t domesticated. They are feral animals that with proper upbringing we trap in a kitten mentality. If they grow up without humans they will be the apex predators that will do everything possible to show you that they would rather die than give you control.

So yes. The wild. Because it’s the best place for them.

How do we prevent this? Fix yo damn pets. Until everyone does that there is an army of volunteers putting them back where they found them but incapable of creating more cats and spreading rabies.

Given the edges on these things I’m thinking that the strings will break much faster if you used these. Which would be pretty punk rock but isn’t great during a show.