It is believed that 70 million feral cats are living in the United States at this moment and their numbers are increasing because most of them are not spayed or neutered. The feral cats of today are descendent of domesticated cats brought to North America that have been lost or abandoned.
They are a problem mainly because they kill wild life and it is estimated that in urban areas there are 100 cat per square mile, which is more than nature can support according to National Geographic. The cats being on their own and independent kill many species of birds and other small mammals, even the endangered species such as the California least tern, which is a federally endangered bird. What makes matters worse is that they have been estimated to kill 2 whole colonies of these endangered tern a year.(U.S. Faces growing Feral Cat Problem).
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