Twelve-year controlled study of high-intensity neutering (Gunther, I. et al., Reduction of free-roaming cat population requires high-intensity neutering in spatial contiguity to mitigate compensatory effects, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119(15) (2022).)

Gunther, I. et al., Reduction of free-roaming cat population requires high-intensity neutering in spatial contiguity to mitigate compensatory effects, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119(15) (2022).

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A 12-year controlled field study in Rishon LeZion, Israel, found population decline only after neutering exceeded 70% across contiguous areas, producing about a 7% annual reduction while immigration and compensatory reproduction limited the effect.

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