For the past several months, I've been seeing a (semi-)feral cat around....

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3. There were lots of ferals in our area when we moved here back in the early 1980s, but after time, and the economy

improving vastly in our area, the feral population basically disappeared, I'm thinking that they got adopted and such, by the more prosperous population moving into our area. Thank goodness for an improved economy. Seems like when an economy goes bust in an area, folks there can't afford the upkeep on their animals so they abandon them before leaving the neighborhood.

My Mom and Dad in the Ozarks also experienced this abandonment issue, they lived behind in a very rural area, behind a state park, and some would drive down the 2-lane highway, stop a little bit down one of our gravel roads, and dump out the animal(s) being abandoned.

We hated it, but on the other hand, we did adopt some of the animals who went on to become amazing pets. A terrible attribute of human behavior but also revealed a side of animal survival that a lot of people don't see.