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But, how does dumping feral and stray cats --even if sexually sterilized --into high -traffic streets and garbage -strewn, disease -ridden sidewalks and alleys "save" their lives. This merely sustains or increases the number of painful ways they are killed --but, they don't count in the shelter's stats! That's not the whole story! TNR has become a lucrative industry in the U.S., not just a neighborly compassionate effort or an expenditure of the City's budget Designating a city "No Kill" by the small percentage of homeless animals (dogs, cats and others) that physically enter the shelters and the number released (called the 'live -save rate') does not consider the thousands that roam the streets ;;nrl are deliberately ignored and not picked up and impounded. Ignoring them in the communities of greatest need and least political influence does not mean they aren't "killed" by the City's inaction --left in gutters and alleys with their lifeless bodies picked up by sanitation trucks Also contributing is the fact that there has been no directed enforcement of Los Angeles' mandatory spay/neuter law for cats (including outdoor cats), as there is for dogs, since Barnette's arrival as LAAS General Manager, nor any campaign emphasizing that it is a serious violation of law to abandon a cat. The lack of true concern for stopping animals from a life in the streets has been replaced by a nationwide acceptance --even encouragement --glorifying the life of feral cats, along with continual requests by non-profit organizations for donations to "make their lives better" in the streets. There is little concern about the up -to 3.7 million wild birds that are killed annually -- many by well-fed cats, according to USA Today. The oxymoron is that responsible cat -rescue groups will adamantly refuse to adopt a cat to anyone who will not sign an agreement to keep it inside, and yet some of them also advocate TNR rather than more stringent ownership law enforcement. If the life of feral cats is not dangerous, dirty, disease -ridden and filled with the terror of impending harm, why aren't housecats allowed to be released into yards after adoption? AUSTRALIA CONSIDERING A BAN ON ALL OUTDOOR CATS It is estimated that cats kill 377 million birds and 649 million reptiles every year in Australia, according to a 2017 study published in the journal Biological Conservation.