The government released a feral cat plan this month, with the goal of destroying 2 million feral cats.

The plan to destroy feral cats also lobbies for local ordinances aimed at controlling domestic cats.

Proponents of cat control say the felines kill native wildlife and breed with ferals, which is especially a problem in areas identified as “conservation areas of significance.”

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Former Fulton County election worker Ruby Freeman talks to her daughter, Wandrea ArShaye "Shaye" Moss, a former Georgia election worker, after she testified before the U.S. House Select Committee at its fourth hearing on its Jan. 6 investigation on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, June 21, 2022. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca Press/TNS)

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