This article is a critique prepared by feral cat advocate Peter J. Wolf, Martha Girdany of the Kauai Community Cat Project, and Frank Hamilton, President of the Animal Coalition of Tampa, responding to a study published in the journal Conservation Biology. “Desires and Management Preferences of Stakeholders Regarding Feral Cats in the Hawaiian Islands” concluded that most Hawaiians strongly favored capture and lethal injection over Trap-Neuter-Release programs to manage feral cats. Wolf, Girdany and Hamilton question the methodology used in the study, and contrast the results to widely divergent results in similar studies.

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“In “Desires and Management Preferences of Stakeholders Regarding Feral Cats in the Hawaiian Islands,” authors Cheryl Lohr and Christopher Lepczyk report, based on their analysis of survey results, that “live capture and lethal injection was the most preferred technique and trap-neuter-release was the least preferred technique for managing feral cats” in the Hawaiian islands. As we will demonstrate, however, a variety of flaws with the authors’ survey, sampling, and analysis undermine these claims.”

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