Barn Cat?

[TomSeller]

Just goes to show coyotes aren't necessarily all bad...and they're native...!

Off topic a little, but coyotes would not be as numerous as they are had native wolves not been mostly eliminated by non native european settlers.

 

[MossRoad]

Sometimes it's hard to fathom how callous/heartless some people can be towards animals and fellow humans alike...

My peeve is...the lives of native birds, squirrels etc. are more important than the lives on unwanted, non- native, invasive animals/reptiles...personally, I think cats should be treated the same as other invasive species like the restrictions on the giant constrictors that have just about wiped out the small mammal population in the Everglades...

I've got nothing against inside cats...they make great pets for those that prefer them...I once had to cut into a tiled shower wall to retrieve a 3 day old litter of cats after the mother had been run over...all but one of the litter died of distemper...we kept the survivor for 19 years...!

I know it's a bit extreme and I know it would never pass muster with all the (blind) bleeding heart PITA types...but I think they ( DNR or the powers that be) should offer a bounty and have scheduled and open season hunts for feral cats...

It wouldn't pass muster with most people, period. Since its not against the law to let your cat roam, its also impossible to distinguish between feral and non-feral cats. Fluffy meets 12 gauge doesn't float in most communities. Only solution is to outlaw free-roaming cats. That's never going to happen.

 

[MossRoad]

Off topic a little, but coyotes would not be as numerous as they are had native wolves not been mostly eliminated by non native european settlers.

And we'd have more native Americans, too.

 

[/pine]

It wouldn't pass muster with most people, period. Since its not against the law to let your cat roam, its also impossible to distinguish between feral and non-feral cats. Fluffy meets 12 gauge doesn't float in most communities. Only solution is to outlaw free-roaming cats. That's never going to happen.

I did say "extreme" and I was mostly referring to highly infested (colony) areas...sort of like a "Rat Killin"

 

[/pine]

And we'd have more native Americans, too.

And Buffalo, dodo birds, carrier pigeons, Ivory billed wood peckers etc...etc...
And BTW...who is to say what " native" means when it comes to human inhabitants ?

 

[TomSeller]

And we'd have more native Americans, too.

Now very off topic, but yes, we would. It is an absolute shame what happened to the Native American population.

 

[TomSeller]

And Buffalo, dodo birds, carrier pigeons, Ivory billed wood peckers etc...etc...
And BTW...who is to say what " native" means when it comes to human inhabitants ?

Please clarify if you are equating the deaths, often caused by intentional release if epidemic diseases, of Native Americans to dodo birds.

 

[/pine]

Now very off topic, but yes, we would. It is an absolute shame what happened to the Native American population.

What is a shame is how the (so called) native population is treated by their (so called) leaders...
...you can't change history...but the contemporary greed and treatment by their hierarchy towards the (so called) native populations is atrocious...

 

[/pine]

Please clarify if you are equating the deaths, often caused by intentional release if epidemic diseases, of Native Americans to dodo birds.

the only thing I was equating was humans and ignorance...!

 

[Stihl Man]

The problem of ferrell cats started because of humans. By the ones that have as much intelligence as a rock. The magic candy bar idea is a good one, but it should be sprinkled around the homes of those people who drop off animals or refuse to spay or neuter their pets and continually let them run loose. Lets fix the problem at the source.This is why the government should pass a law you have to pass a test to make sure you are smart enough to have a pet let alone a child!!!
All the above applies to dogs or any other pets...