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Hello and welcome to episode 1839 of Effectively Wild Baseball Podcasts for

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I'm Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer joined by Meg Rally of Fan Graphs, hello Megh.

Hello.

We're wondering last time just how many feral cats have infested the Oakland Colosseum?

I now have an answer for you or at least an estimated answer.

It's an estimated 30 to 40 cats and kittens who have made the 130 acre property in East

Oakland, their home according to a story at OaklandSides.org.

So 30 to 40 cats far preferable to 30 to 50 feral hogs, even if the cats are also feral,

but still seems like too many cats apparently.

I don't know what the appropriate number of cats would be for any given 130 acre property,

but if it's a ballpark, probably not 30 to 40.

Yeah, I feel like it's a lot of cats, you know.

I think that I worry about the well-being of the cats.

I worry about there being sufficient, even in a place that is probably abundant in terms

of its trash and those potential food sources.

They're getting the proper nutritional balance.

And you know, they don't have a reputation for proliferating with anywhere near the

frequency or volume as a rabbit or a rodents, whether rats or mice, but they do make new

cats, you know, they famously are in the cat making business at times.

So it's not like it'll stay a stagnant population even with some fall off on the upper bound

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