Stray cats, long considered “pests” by the US military, were shot in the head at the Osan Air Base in South Korea last year. Have things changed? A military wife speaks out. In May, the South Korean media revealed shocking images from the Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province. Not only were stray cats…
A Korean charity collaborated with Korean vets and US military personnel to neuter about 200 feral cats at the soon-to-be-former Yongsan Garrison in Seoul. What will happen when the base closes? (Continued from part 1.) Despite its increasing popularity as a humane, effective way of controlling feral cat populations, trap-neuter-release has its detractors. Cats get in…
In Korea and much of the world, trap-neuter-return programs are a widely accepted way of controlling feral populations and reducing conflicts between cats and humans. Why is the US military so slow to catch up? Kerri Burrows used to go hiking on Namsan every week. On one hike, she saw a poster about stray cats. She…