'Put them on the exhaust pipes': Alberta mayor appears to suggest killing of feral cats

The mayor of an Alberta city appeared to suggest on Tuesday that residents should use inhumane tactics to deal with feral cats.

The mayor of an Alberta city appeared to suggest on Tuesday that residents should use inhumane tactics to deal with feral cats.

"When it comes to feral cats, it would be cruel to say, but it would be interesting if people could deal with them themselves. Like, I’m going to say, in the old days when you lived on the farm," Fort Saskatchewan Mayor Gale Katchur said with a chuckle during a city committee meeting on Tuesday.

Katchur grew up on a farm, and said her daughter lives on a farm.

"When you lived on the farm, if there was (sic) cats, you threw them in a bag and threw them in the river or they just put them on the exhaust pipes," she said, chuckling a second time.

The City of Fort Saskatchewan publishes a recording of city meetings to YouTube.

The city's committee of the whole discussed animal licensing and feral cats on Tuesday afternoon.

Katchur's comments were in regards to a proposal by city staff that feral cats be relocated to a rural outdoor residence or farm.