ESTEBANNIC
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Even though I can see both sides of the story if cats are a problem they should be dealt with by the proper authority and through the right channels. Basically a case of taking the law into ones hands.
No one wants animals to suffer but considering half the US population blast native birds and animals (and even fellow maniac gunmen if you think of Dick Cheney)
I can never understand anyone that has such passion for one type of creature but could dispense so lightly with other animals .
but a continent of feral cats, how would it be done
trapping, shooting and stricter control on cat ownership/realeasing. You don't have a feral dog population anymore, do you?
and what consequences.
an introduced predator removed, and a glut of furry hats on the market?
The law of unintended consequences applies.
such as? Apart from an absence of feral cats?
Does that go for smallpox virus, malaria parasite, fleas, cockroaches in your dinner too? Or just cute fluffy creatures?
My view is that it is never right to kill a wild animal for behaving naturally. Cats (even if the 'owner' thinks otherwise) are always wild animals.Here is an interesting little article brought to my attention n the New York times on a birder facing up to 2 years in jail for killing a cat to protect some Piping Plovers
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/14/us/14cats.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Sean
My view is that it is never right to kill a wild animal for behaving naturally. Cats (even if the 'owner' thinks otherwise) are always wild animals.
By all means use other methods to separate the cat from the birds.
Alan
2 years for shooting a cat! Shame they don't come down as hard as that on people who shoot Hen Harriers here in Britain.
2 years for shooting a cat! Shame they don't come down as hard as that on people who shoot Hen Harriers here in Britain.
but a continent of feral cats, how would it be done
trapping, shooting and stricter control on cat ownership/realeasing. You don't have a feral dog population anymore, do you?
an introduced predator removed, and a glut of furry hats on the market?
such as? Apart from an absence of feral cats?
They are a part of the eco-system as degraded as it is. The problem is not because people keep letting "Muffy" loose. There are 70,000,000 feral cats in the US and I suspect that estimate is low. It is a self-sustaining population. I would love to get rid of them, but when the rodent population increases, will natural controls adapt quickly enough or will poison be used.
A lunatic firing a gun on a public beach (how this thread began) is not much of a well reasoned solution.
Mike
Mike
BTW, is it possible? Proving that anybody who feeds feral cats is responsible for havoc they do to birds in the neighborhood?
a feral cat is an introduced species causing as much harm as the rat... so ERADICATE!