Feral cats...Australia has the right idea...

[bcp]

 

[Molalla1]

Long ago some government agency decided to attempt coyote control. They used an explosive cyanide device - M44. It had good intentions but backfired. The device killed more farm animals/open range livestock than coyotes.

I have two barn cats. I provide food - they get water out of my lake. In exchange they have a very significant impact on the rodent population. I'm hoping soon they will move on to the pocket gophers.

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[RobertBrown]

You're thinking your own environment... not an Australian environment.

That being said, the poisoned 'sausage' programme wouldn't work for Tasmania or the habitat ranges for dingos. We've got very few native carnivorous species... the Quoll, the Tasmanian Devil and the Dingo are all that I can name off the top... and they're all protected.

Oh yes, there's a feral cat problem (pigs too,for that matter) here on Tassie. Open season for a farmer with a licenced firearm. One of the problems is the cost of spaying/neutering = it's cheaper to simply dump the critters in the State Forest. That's how I ended up with my cat; she was dumped in the forest (my 'next-door' neighbour) as a kitten... on a cold July night and showed up at my back door.

Of course she's now had all of her shots and been spayed... so I know the 'prohibitive' costs of responsible cat ownership. (naturally, spaying costs more than neutering)

The foul mannered OP is advocating the use of non selective poisons to eradicate feral cats here in this country.
Sodium Flouroacetate kills a wide range of mammals and marsupials, not just cats.
Bad idea....I agree that invasives need to be dealt with, but not at the cost of native species. The article mentions that hunting or culling, as it were, is more effective than chemicals
Sodium fluoroacetate - Wikipedia
18 usage in New Zealand - Wikipedia

1080, the brand name given to the synthetic form of sodium fluoroacetate,[SUP][1][/SUP] is used in New Zealand in efforts to control populations of possums, rats, stoats, deer, and rabbits,[SUP][2][/SUP] which are invasive species.[SUP][3][/SUP] Although the use of 1080 in New Zealand was deemed "effective and safe" by the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment in a 2011 re-evaluation[SUP][4][/SUP] and is widely considered to be the most effective tool currently available for controlling possums over large areas,[SUP][5][/SUP][SUP][6][/SUP] it remains a contentious issue, with the majority of the debate occurring between conservationists and livestock farmers on one side and hunters and animal rights activists on the other.[SUP][7][/SUP] Concerns are also raised about security of potable water supplies in areas where 1080 is applied.[SUP][8][/SUP]

Although the poison-laced sausages have proven most effective at killing the felines, itç—´ the farmers and shooters that have killed more in total.
Statistics from The Royal Melbourne Institute revealed individual shooters killed 83 percent of feral cats who were deliberately killed across the country.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Poison bait is not selective. It kills all birds and animals that eat meat. Australians should give people their guns back and put a $5 bounty on cats. Problem solved.

 

[/pine]

The foul mannered OP is advocating the use of non selective poisons to eradicate feral cats here in this country....

Sorry Buster Brown...you mistake "blunt and succinct" for ill-mannered...some people just can't handle the truth...

I'm not advocating the use of poison...when I said "the right idea" I meant eradication over catch spay/neuter and release...

See post #9 where I said:

...Personally I would like to see a global program that traps feral cats and euthanizes them...poisoning is a bit extreme but at least they (Aussies) are doing something about a problem where the only real solution to the problem is eradication.

Shooting them works for me...just not so much the bleeding hearts...

 

[Wagtail]

Poison bait is not selective. It kills all birds and animals that eat meat. Australians should give people their guns back and put a $5 bounty on cats. Problem solved.

Not to change the subject, however you seem to be under the impression that firearms have been stripped from the Australian public and, in particular, the farmer/grazier...

Firearms licensing and registration in Tasmania - Tasmania Police Firearms Services

There's simply a process and stipulations to adhere to.

 

[radios1]

Poison bait is not selective. It kills all birds and animals that eat meat. Australians should give people their guns back and put a $5 bounty on cats. Problem solved.

some Countries can't let their Citizens have guns..

 

[radios1]

Not to change the subject, however you seem to be under the impression that firearms have been stripped from the Australian public and, in particular, the farmer/grazier...

Firearms licensing and registration in Tasmania - Tasmania Police Firearms Services

There's simply a process and stipulations to adhere to.

category B and higher is extremely restrictive. Categories of firearms licence - Tasmania Police Firearms Services you need to be a special person for class B and higher..