cats
many places around the country manage feral cat populations by catching, neutering, and releasing the felines. i really like this plan. the cats get fed. and get rudimentary care. nothing fancy. the cats are pretty much on their own. but they can't reproduce. so the problem stays manageable. which is really cool. some places have cages where people can abandon a non-neutered cat without the stigma of dealing with a person who might judge the donors as bad people. don't you love your kitty?! heh. i'm thinking, that should be the plan for the poor. make it on your own. or get neutered. and live out the rest of your life in a very modest fashion. pre-existing kids get educated. and at puberty they're either shipped out into the real world. or they too get the knife. this might be a crazy idea. but it's a whole lot saner than the world's current solution: slums.