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This question is equivalent to "Why doesn't the Istanbul government spay and neuter stray cats?", a question the article doesn't address. If there really are no systematic efforts to control the stray cat population, I have a hard time believing that nature isn't performing the same function. Cat populations grow explosively unchecked- if this phenomenon has been happening for hundreds of years, there's no way that the cat population hasn't been butting up against various limits by now, with all the suffering that that implies.