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A domesticated species that has adapted to existence in the wild state but remains distinct from other wild species. Examples are the wild horses and burros of the West and the wild goats and pigs of Hawaii. (source: WCMC)

Background from Wikipedia

A feral horse (an American mustang) in Wyoming

A feral animal or plant is one that has escaped from domestication and returned, partly or wholly, to its wild state. Rarely will the environment have evolved to accommodate the feral organism into its established ecology. Therefore, feral animals and plants can cause disruption or extinction to some indigenous species, reducing the pristine quality of wilderness and other fragile ecosystems.

St. J officials trying to decide about feral cats  -  22 Oct 2007
Boston Globe,JOHNSBURY, Vt. --St. Johnsbury officials are trying to decide what to do about the number of feral cats in the community. Town animal control officer Jo

Australia Prepares For Battle Against Wild Pigs  -  22 Oct 2007
Voice of AmericaFarmers are bearing the brunt of the devastation the feral pests leave behind. The pigs are drawn to the sweet taste of sugarcane, while their incessant

Hunters asked to kill wild boars during Ohio's deer season  -  22 Oct 2007
Zanesville Times Recorder,COLUMBUS - Ohio's hunters are encouraged to harvest any feral swine they encounter in the wild in order to limit the spread of this destructive species in

Pet of the Week: Misty, Oct. 22  -  22 Oct 2007
MyFox WGHP,If you are interested in sweet MISTY, please contact Feral Cat Assistance Program at (336) 378-0878. Her adoption fee covers her spay surgery,

Pig shooters helping to spread disease  -  22 Oct 2007
ABC Online,Recreational hunters who move feral pigs across Australia illegally may be helping to spread diseases like Japanese encephalitis and foot and mouth,

Efforts continue to control feral cat population  -  Oct 21, 2007
Dothan Eagle,Friendlier than a typical feral cat, Starlight doesn’t come out of her woods for just anyone. Dykes has fed feral and stray cats like Starlight since 1997.

What's best for feral felines?  -  Oct 18, 2007
Kansas.com,Feral-cat advocate groups practice "trap, neuter and return" in hopes that fewer wild cats will be euthanized. BY DIANE MCCARTNEY AND RON SYLVESTER There

Officials not wild about feral cats  -  Oct 15, 2007
San Diego Union Tribune,AP LOS ANGELES – Officials in the San Pedro port area are not wild about the ever-growing population of feral cats. They've launched “Operation Felix,� a

No hats off to feral fashion  -  Oct 13, 2007
Melbourne Herald Sun,CELEBRITY milliner and style-meister Peter Jago has stamped his heel and declared an end to "feral chic" at the races. Jago, resplendent in an exotically

Minister allows fish traps to reduce feral redclaw population  -  Oct 19, 2007
TheFishSite.com,AUSTRALIA - Fisheries Minister Jon Ford has granted an exemption to Western Australia’s fish traps ban to help recreational fishers effectively remove

Goldston: County leaders missed a chance to confront feral-cat ...  -  Oct 13, 2007
San Jose Mercury News,By Linda Goldston National Feral Cat Day is Tuesday, and it's a reminder that we all need to get involved. If all of the backyard cat feeders and city and

Feral Hogs, Hungry Woodpeckers: Managing Post-Katrina Forest  -  Oct 14, 2007
BloombergFeral hogs are also thriving in the exploding green undergrowth. To help control the population, explains Myers, forest managers encourage hunting.

Australia plagued by feral pigs  -  Oct 13, 2007
BBC News,By Phil Mercer Scientists in Australia have warned that rising numbers of disease-ravaged feral pigs pose a threat to farmers and the environment.

TNR programs would help  -  Oct 20, 2007
Winona Daily News,Even if resources for such strategies existed, they would be better spent providing low-cost spay and neuter for feral cat caretakers and low-income

NSW Govt to reveal native species protection plan  -  Oct 19, 2007
ABC Online,Some will expand their range, but feral weeds or animals may also compete more heavily for food and space. Some animals will be harder hit,

Yucatan Jungles Are Feral Mayan Gardens  -  Oct 11, 2007
Wired News..."The species you see in Yucatán jungles are Mayan village community garden plants that have gone feral. That isn't the forest that was there before humans

Goldston: Feral cats have a new champion: Steve Wozniak  -  Oct 20, 2007
San Jose Mercury News,Tuesday was National Feral Cat Day. I'm delighted someone of Wozniak's stature is taking on the cause. Emmylou Harris, my all-time favorite singer,

Blueprint to hit Tb pests where it counts  -  Oct 18, 2007
Stuff.co.nz,..."Where the possums are bad and very likely where there are a lot of feral pigs, is more likely to be where Tb is a problem in the landscape.

Reducing feral hog population a daunting task  -  Oct 6, 2007
Houston Chronicle,It was a typical sounder of feral hogs — an old sow, four younger adult females and a passel of shoats. Just down the creek, we came upon a shattered patch

Feral Cat Trap Loan Program  -  Oct 16, 2007
WTOC,Lynda Cooper of Savannah knows all too well about feral cats. It's started with one and quickly multiplied. "We felt sorry for them because they were so

`Felix' fights feral cats  -  Oct 15, 2007
Long Beach Press-Telegram,By Donna Littlejohn, Staff writer City and port officials are launching a renewed effort to reduce the numbers of feral cats living in wild colonies that

Of feral cats and shelter dogs …  -  Oct 16, 2007
OCRegister,And Oct. 16 marks National Feral Cat Day, sponsored by Alley Cat Allies to educate us about feral cats. Ferals are domestic cats that have “gone wild,�

UI to remove monk parakeet nests  -  Oct 19, 2007
Connecticut Post,The lawsuit, which seeks an injuction halting the killing of the birds, goes to trial in May, Feral said. Kathleen Eldergill, the lawyer who filed the suit,

Feral - Tulcea Halts Operations  -  Oct 16, 2007
Bursa,Ferroalloy producer Feral - Tulcea on Sunday unplugged the last two functioning furnaces, according to union leader Ion Simineanu.

Feral cat supporters schedule fundraiser  -  Oct 16, 2007
Columbia Daily Tribune,The group Spay, Neuter and Protect Feral Felines will host a fundraiser from 7 am to 2:30 pm tomorrow at downtown restaurant Café Berlin, Providence Road

'Wildcat Wednesdays' has alternative approach to feral cat control  -  Oct 15, 2007
Pioneer Press,BY John Brewer The feral cat - sturdy and orange, with a weepy eye - bounced around the live trap on his way into St. Paul Animal Control.

Let's help the feral cat population  -  Oct 15, 2007
The Free Lance-Star,Today is National Feral Cat Awareness Day. As a volunteer for the Orange County Humane Society, I'm aware of the numbers of feral cat colonies in this area.

Caring for a (fixed) feral colony of cats  -  Oct 16, 2007
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com,The feral cat colony could have been just another glimpse at animals that are living a short, sad existence of hunger and desperation.

New Trap Loan Program Available for Feral Cats in Savannah  -  Oct 15, 2007
Creative Coast Initiative,In honor of National Feral Cat day October 16, The Milton Project is launching a trap loan program to the Savannah community. "The Milton Project wants to

Kitty cops come to the LAPD's rescue  -  Oct 19, 2007
Los Angeles Times,The department, with the aid of the Feral Cat Caretakers' Coalition, has moved five animals each into the Wilshire, Foothill and Southeast stations' grounds

Bite the Ballot  -  Oct 19, 2007
Times Online,As usual, feral federalism has triumphed yet again. This feral federalism comes with an inbuilt ideological bias. It has been championed most aggressively

Feral dogs attack livestock in southern Idaho  -  Oct 1, 2007
Salt Lake Tribune,AP Posted: 2:44 PM- BURLEY, Idaho - Feral dog attacks in southern Idaho have killed or injured about 100 sheep, goats and chickens this month.

No change in feral cat policy  -  Sep 26, 2007
San Jose Mercury News,They also said the county could face legal action if feral cats harm visitors on county property. Still, the supervisors - who declared last year the "Year

Feral animal incidents not up control officer’s alley  -  Oct 13, 2007
Cumberland Times-News,Gee said that there have been a number of incidents involving people and pets with feral animals and he is getting the calls to deal with them because the

Region briefs  -  Oct 20, 2007
Nevada Appeal,A free spay/neuter drive for feral and free-roaming cats, dubbed "The Feline Frenzy," in Washoe County today aims to neuter 200 free-roaming cats in a

'CatWalk' event will raise money for Feral Cat Coalition  -  Oct 13, 2007
Longview Daily News,By Janine Manny Feline Friends is planning a fundraiser for National Feral Cat Day, Oct. 28. Money raised will help support the spay and neuter clinics

The indeflating sub-feral government  -  Oct 1, 2007
Asia Times Online,Do you expect foreign pullback to be Sudden Mogambo Death (SMD) for sub-feral …no no no, I mean sub-federal government?" The answer is, "Yes.

Residents urged to help fight feral pig march  -  Sep 24, 2007
ABC Online,Home owners in Cairns, in far north Queensland, are being urged to do more to combat feral pigs as their number increases in urban areas.

Free feral cat traps can be hard to find  -  Oct 11, 2007
Honolulu Star-Bulletin,Question: It's difficult getting a Humane Society trap for free feral cat sterilization. I want to make a difference; is there anything else I can do?

Lack of shelter leaves Kootenai County teeming with feral cats  -  Sep 24, 2007
Seattle Post IntelligencerNow, animal activists say, the county is crawling with thousands of stray and cast-off feral cats which mate and produce kittens with rabbit-like rapidity.

Feral cats take over local park  -  Oct 11, 2007
KPNX-12,Denny Noel says dozens of feral cats roam the park, most of them abandoned by their owners. He says the Arizona Humane Society will pick them up,

Queensland warns of live feral pig transport  -  Oct 10, 2007
PigProgress.net,Biosecurity Queensland has issued a warning to feral pig hunters that steep penalties will ensue if the animals are transported live without a permit.

Warning on transport of live feral pigs  -  Oct 9, 2007
North Queensland Register,Biosecurity Queensland has warned feral pig hunters that the live transport of feral pigs without a permit is an offence – with steep penalties for those

Bugs go feral in space  -  Sep 24, 2007
ABC Science Online,Bacteria become more dangerous in space, killing more mice than earthbound bacteria and killing them more quickly, US researchers say.

Farmer gets jail time for killing feral cats  -  Oct 11, 2007
Richmond Times Dispatch,Williamsburg, VA - A James City County farmer has been sentenced to one month in jail for drowning feral cats on his property. Donald Hunt also was fined

Advocates spay, neuter feral cats, and then tend to them in the ...  -  Oct 9, 2007
Modesto Bee,She's there to take care of some of the park's residents: a colony of feral cats. About 20 of them live in blackberry bushes. Wary of people and predators,

Volunteers take action in attempt to control Modale's feral cat ...  -  Oct 8, 2007
Missouri Valley Times News,For some people, feral cats are not on the radar. For others, they are a thorny problem because they personally don't like cats, feral or otherwise.

Alamo Heights mulls feral cat remedy  -  Oct 10, 2007
San Antonio Express,The City Council is considering adopting a program to humanely manage the city's feral cat population. The plan would trap feral cats, vaccinate and

Feral cat program continues its work  -  Oct 10, 2007
Pocono Record,Property Owners Association, while they continue to have an insight in providing a proactive approach in controlling the population of feral cats.

Group to address feral cat problems  -  Oct 10, 2007
Newport News Times,...is launching a year-long public awareness campaign to bring attention to the treatment of feral cats and provide humane solutions to help them.

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