1.   But a large cat population, well that might be a symptom.

2.   But one as yet unstudied side effect of this social trend appears to be an explosion in the cat population.

3.   In most cat populations, the adult males live by themselves, except when actually mating.

4.   Responsible pet ownership and government regulation can solve the problem better than mass killings, which only create a temporary dip in cat population, Wirth said.

5.   Several alternatives exist for the control of feral cat populations.

6.   The measure also requires the owners of unaltered cats to keep their pets indoors as a way to reduce the feral cat population.

7.   They also present an ever-present source of feline leukemia infection for the local pet cat population.

8.   Urban cat populations are far more dense than rural ones.

9.   Also, corridors of forest linking different tiger population sites would then need to be grown so the big cat populations could roam and reproduce across a wider area.

10.   And farmers are turning to their dwindling cat population for help.