If they can't reproduce, then feeding them actually reduces the harm they cause because they won't need to go out hunting for food.
I will say, though, as someone with cats who are escape artists, I love this product, I'd find it invaluable. We already have AirTags on them but it's an imperfect solution.
That's completely unfounded speculation and wishful-thinking.
Would you like for cats to deposit their parasite-laden (human-infecting, incurable) feces in your herb garden, where your children play, or directly outside of a window you need for ventilation? If so, than there are certainly others who would not. Basic decency demands that you don't facilitate this.
It's not 'speculation' to suggest that logically, an animal which is not hungry won't expend energy to hunt for food.
> Basic decency demands that you don't facilitate this.
Basic decency demands showing compassion to animals in need. But if there's one thing I'm seeing in this thread, it's lots of people who seem to think their views on these matters are moral universals.
> Would you like for cats to deposit their parasite-laden (human-infecting, incurable) feces in your herb garden, where your children play, or directly outside of a window you need for ventilation?
Do you even know how cats decide where to poop, or what they do with their feces? Cat feces doesn't just sit out, they bury them. While it's true feral animals - including many cats - harbor parasites, healthy cats are typically fastidiously clean. Much cleaner than dogs, and I should know, I have both.
You have awfully strong opinions but they don't seem like they're based in much knowledge.
Your argument remains as merely some vague hand-waving, still with no evidence presented.
https://www.unitedspayalliance.org/feral-cats-if-you-feed-th... https://www.felina-sicily.org/en/how-to/to-feed-or-not/ https://www.feralcats.com/good-neighbor https://spayneuterspringfield.org/feral-cat-info
and here's a study describing what happens when one doesn't take this approach:
https://www.dvm360.com/view/feral-cats-fed-not-cared
All of these were on the first page of Google for 'feeding neutered feral cats only if fixed' or 'feeding neutered feral cats only if fixed study'
What I'm suggesting is standard and recommended practice.
But given that you think people who like cats are "toxo+ cat lunatics," I think there's no productivity in this exchange. You clearly have some really strong biases, and you've made clear what I was already inferring from your comments - you won't agree with anything that doesn't support your incorrect viewpoint.
Keep your cat vaccines up-to-date, neuter them and have regular checkups. An indoor cat is a miserable life, intended to be an object of some over-controlling miserable person who is afraid of life and want everyone else to be as miserable, paranoid and afraid as them.
But I guess you don't do much of either.
The thing is, like everyone of us, you'll die someday, you'll get sick, probably even very sick as you age. You can't cheat death, disease and suffering for ever. You can do the reasonable stuff to take care of you, avoiding really stupid stuff like DUI, hard drugs, cigarretes, excessive drinking, too much sugar, but you need to understand that this only goes so far, and that in average, it is not liking you are going to double your lifespan if you became completely anal about preventing risk. Sooner or later, no much how paranoid you are your cellular machinery will star failing, and no, you won't be able to upload your life to the cloud and live forever in the metaverse as much as your average incult billionaire tech bro believes.
And when this day comes, the question that really matters is not if you are going to die soon, but wether you have ever lived.
Now, you are free, and if you want to live in a super-afraid-karen modem the rest of your life, none of our business. But don't force an animal to share your miserable outlook of life. If you are so worried about the cat bringing those dangerous germs to your house, nobody is forcing you to have a cat.
Cats deposit the parasite in gardens, so your suggestion that this vector of infection is unrelated to roaming cats is misleading.