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Originally Posted by blackie007
I am still doing my own research and reading, but so far, I have not found a single negative feedback on FeralStat except Acc&d, which, in the same breath, they announced their own feline contraceptive. Sounds to me like a competition war is going on. So, since there is obviously a conflict of interest there, I will discount that and look for other, more objective feedback.
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Hey you! You will make one great journalist! Haven't even thought of "competition war" like you mentioned. Yes, it is possible. If a formulae goes through testing, more testing, it all adds up to a very high R&D cost, patented and at the end of the day being passed on to the consumers. I know it works that way for human drugs. Not sure if it is the same for animals. I have heard of a patent protection period where formulae is not released in detailed (I think? may be wrong) and marketed at a high price to recover R&D cost.
Look at ACC-D own report of FeralStat :-
http://www.acc-d.org/ACCD%20docs/PPPP-FeralStat.pdf
Page 2 states :
USE AND EFFECTIVENESS
FeralStat is given once a week as a powder added to canned food. Some feral-cat colony managers report using it indiscriminately—feeding FeralStat to all cats in the colony—while others report taking care to treat only intact female cats. In interviews with several colony managers using FeralStat, all reported that they watched to make sure their cats ate all the treated food. They also removed leftover food to be sure there was no chance for exposure to other animals, whether wild or domestic.
MA has been shown to be effective at preventing pregnancy in cats,
but at significantly higher doses than the levels used in FeralStat (in another word, FeralStat uses a low dosage!). A
veterinary consultant to ACC&D interviewed several users of FeralStat.
They reported satisfactory results—that is, no pregnancies and a generally healthy colony (that's good news, I suppose). However, no independent studies have been conducted to demonstrate the efficacy of FeralStat.
(the other side of a coin, testing!)
Like I have mentioned before, I didn't just wake up one fine morning and say "Hey let's use FeralStat!" - I read alot - pros, cons.
Blackie do share with us if you find anything further. Then again, if it is a low cost solution, probably those using FeralStat are of lower income group (like me) and may not even have access to the internet (lucky me!).