Jerry Moore

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223 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 2 Feb

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Something You Should Know · The Human Need to Matter & The Enduring Appeal of Cats · 2 Feb 2026 podcast

It's an enormous number.

And in, in other places in the world, for example, just last year, New Zealand was in the news because they had to, they organized a nationwide hunting

Most of them are domesticated cats that get abandoned or have been allowed to roam and then their owners lost track of them.

So that's mostly what it is.

And I want to distinguish, when I'm talking about feral cats, I'm not talking about wild cat species like bobcats or mountain lions or things like that.

When I talk about feral cats, I mean these kind of house cats gone wild.

Now they do.

They do.

They have impacts on...

bird populations, rodent populations, which most of the time we approve of that.

But no, they have those skills.

You know, I don't know very much about bobcats as such.

I've seen them.

I've seen them hiking in the Sierra Nevada.

But they tend to be pretty isolated animals.

They don't really pose any kind of threat to humans the way that a mountain lion or something like that might.

But they, you know, so many of us, especially here in California, but also in places like Colorado and elsewhere,

You know, we live in what we think of as suburbs or cities, but we're not that far away from either actual wild lands or kind of mixed strategy uses.

So for example, one of the places where we see a lot of not just bobcats, but mountain lions and animals like that are on the edges of large golf courses.

that are adjacent to mountain systems, whether it's in California or in Colorado, because those golf courses have water and they have grass that attract deer that attract mountain lions.

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