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  Are there any other options that actually work?
  
  Birth control. Works great. 
  Also, unless you're willing to apply this to people..
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  How often do super generalized superlative statements end up being meaningfully true after being applied to the hundreds and hundreds of different circumstances and contexts that occur in real life?
  Hunting and culling overpopulated species is an effective method of animal control, but it isn't the "best". Because the "best" method of population control is going to be context specific and likely use multiple methods to solve the problem at several different points in the life cycle of the species in question. >
  
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  I read through the other comments including the Political Correctness issues derailing conversation. May i ask how do you objectively determine when any type of animal group is overpopulated?
  OP's first examples are invasive species. Isn't that a different topic than overpopulation?
  Did you know the USA culls up to 500,000 coyotes annually?
  Deer Association says 
  
  Deer hunters in the United States harvested an estimated 6.3 million white-tailed deer in the 2020-21 hunting season
  
  What if i said one problem solves the other? Stop hunting deer and the coyotes won't need to be culled.
  ASPCA says:
  
  Each year, approximately 920,000 animals are euthanized (390,000 dogs and 530,000 cats)
  
  What if this is the root of the invasive species problem, around the entire globe? Why can't we solve this?
  Maybe we have to change our behavior and start asking the hard questions about what's wrong with us. >
  
  What's your solution to the mass dog and cat euthanization? There's too many animals but not enough good homes for them. I don't even think there's enough rooms in shelters and foster home for all the pets that exist. 
  The solutions that comes to mind for me are putting stronger regulations on who can breed their pets and make laws in place that require mandatory altering unless you pay a fine or are a reputable breeder. This will be hard to mandate, especially in the US where we won't even ban declawing cats. There's little the law and government does when it comes to animal ownership. It's usually legal to even keep your dog tied out all day, as long as it has access to water, food, and shelter. There's a big "a pet is basically an item" and "my pet, I do what I want" viewpoint with pet ownership. >
  
  There are 2 more ways -
  (i) Sterilizing the animals so they cannot breed.
  (ii) Create decoys, ie, generating "artificial" females like dolls and leaving them in the wild, so males mate with them instead of real females (This can be done with insects).
  Both these methods are highly effective. >
  
  I am terrified of the thought that a child might find a stuffed rabbit doll filled with rabbit cum and play with it >
  
  The problem with hunting (and TNR) as solutions is the same problem with Thanos's MCU snap. You remove a bunch of animals from the competition, but that lessened competition creates a vacancy that will be rapidly filled by the ones that escaped your attention breeding more.
  The problem with exploding animal populations is the lack of a predator species or an environmental hazard that continuously reduces the population and prevents it from rebounding. Without that, hunting and TNR style solutions are basically just a stopgap that you need to use continuously and indefinitely.
  I don't know if it's held up over time, but about ten years ago there were some studies about TVHR in cat populations (VH is vasectomy/hysterectomy) being more effective at long-term reduction of feral populations. Because the procedure doesn't affect their hormonal cycles, cats remain competitive and territorial even after they lose the ability to reproduce. And that, in turn, makes it less likely that cats who weren't captured and treated will reproduce. 
  And the other solution isn't hunting but complete eradication (in the region where they're invasive). But that's particularly difficult, as hunting is never going to catch everything, and the few methods we have that are more effective (e.g., poison) aren't targeted and catch species you don't want to kill off. 
  Or you can go with the Simpsons method. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death. >
  
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  You didn't completely change my view but you taught me some good arguments against the argument. Hormonal alternatives and altering may be solutions for mammals, but I'm not sure about other types of animals. >
  
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