
Passing on experience - part 1: "C'mon kiddo, I'll show you how this is done!", originally uploaded by <andreea>.

Garbage Can 1, originally uploaded by cbrkelvin. Garbage Can 2, originally uploaded by cbrkelvin.

Rat Warning, originally uploaded by cbrkelvin.
Part of the increase in the feral cat population is due to the housing depression and a percentage of foreclosed owners unable to secure housing that allows pets (while others simply can't afford to feed their pets and themselves with the rising cost of food, Gas, and the general economic recession) and deciding to turn their animals out into the streets.
This is generally seen as a bad thing and a negative. But, I have to admit, a year after the appearance of alley cats in the area that their is a huge upside to having ferral cats in the area!
Alley cats have done for free in my area, and many others that have seen their numbers increase, what the city of chicago has, and many other major metropolitan areas have, spent millions of tax payer dollars (over several centuries) trying to do but failed......exterminated rats!


