Feral cats rounded up on South Side  Strays will be spayed and
neutered  Share with others:  Print Email Read Later  Their
noisy, nocturnal carousing on the streets of Pittsburgh's South
Side was making neighbors unhappy. The neighborhood's dogs were
not pleased, either.  So it came to pass that a weekend sweep of
65 feral cats living in the Slopes area was a win-win for both
people and the felines.  "This is the first time we've done a
mass trapping, although we have [spay/neuter] clinics every
three weeks," said Lisa Lendl-Lander, head of Homeless Cat
Management Team, a nonprofit organization.  HCMT's goal is to
humanely reduce the population growth and minimize the suffering
of homeless cats through sterilization and responsible colony
management.  In 13 years, it has used the "Trap-Neuter-Return"
method to sterilize more than 12,000 cats in a nine-county area
of southwestern Pennsylvania, including 849 last year.  The
emphasis is not to find homes for these cats -- true ferals are
wild and rarely can adap