An article displaying some of the stoopidist ideas about addressing a man made environmental disaster.
The issue: Cats, feral and pets, are killing native wildlife where ever humans have taken them.
Solution: kill the cats as quickly as possible.
This article demonstrates the mental illness spouted by the non-scientific regressive left:
We don't need more research. It does not matter how many native critters are being killed. Cats kill and eat other critters. That cats are doing that is because humans have created this problem.
To describe killing these pests as "immoral" is beyond any type of reason. To suggest that this is inhumane keeps company with that idiocy.
Are the cats "moral" when they kill?
Are cats killing "humanely?"
The cats should not be there doing that. Period. To remove them is the most "moral" and "humane" action.
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Qualia
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Dec 10, 2018
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Having lurked around FB TNR people I can't read this article without blowing up my BP.
There's an entire subculture dedicated to maintaining "colonies". One woman alone has over a dozen colonies she visits EVERYDAY, approaching 100 cats total. That is but ONE person doing this, and there's an entire network of them.
I'm convinced this is a form of mental illness on the hoarding spectrum, with the effect of not just a single household of hoarding animals, but inflicting the damage to other species.
And the REALLY CRAZY ONES gripe that the "cats belong, deserve to live, just as the raccoons, oppossums & rats do" ( paraphrasing).
They share methods for disguising and maintenance amongst one another.
IMO this craptastic hobby should be illegal. But.... guess what, there are veterinarians who make a profit off these dumbshits. And thus it goes.
2 natural predators for feral cats, bobcats & coyotes. They build "coyote free" enclosures to stack the deck.
It's disgusting.
ETA: ferals are also toxoplasmosis vectors. If you're immune compromised....
Qualia
Level 8
Dec 10, 2018
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Thank you. Great stuff.
I live in the UK. Cats are native - well, as native as you can get in a massively degraded, wilderness free environment. If I move back to Oz, no more kitties for me. If it's feral, it's in peril. Would be nice to be able to keep Quolls, though.
MrBeelzeebubbles
Level 7
Dec 10, 2018
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Domesticated Cats are NOT native, anywhere. They came with humans from africa.
"If it's feral, it's in peril." I think this should be, "If it's feral, it IS a peril."
@Jacar European wild cats have been around since the last big glacial retreat in the Pleistocene, so before humans domesticated cats. They are genetically the same as domestic cats, and frequently interbreed with them. So sorry, but they are native here in Europe.
That's not to make light of the devastating effect they have had on many ecosystems they are not native to, notably Australia and New Zealand. And along with rats, pigs, goats, donkeys, camels, cane toads, rabbits, horses and deer, in an ideal world they should be controlled into a local extinction by whatever means necessary.
But we don't live in an ideal world, and that horse has definitely bolted so no amount of fiddle-fucking with the stable door is going to bring it back. And in any democracy, the wholesale slaughter of domestic cats is doing to be a hard sell.
@MrBeelzeebubbles . . Thanks for the comment Yet:
Wiki:::: "Because cats were venerated in ancient Egypt, they were commonly believed to have been domesticated there,[14] but there may have been instances of domestication as early as the Neolithic from around 9,500 years ago (7500 BC).[15] Results of a genetic study in 2007 showed that all domestic cats descended from the Near Eastern wildcat and diverged around 8000 BC in the Middle East.[16][14][17] The leopard cat was domesticated independently in China around 5500 BC, though this line of partially domesticated cats leaves no trace in the domesticated populations of today.[18][19] A 2017 study confirmed that domestic cats are descendants of those first domesticated by farmers in the Near East around 9,000 years ago."
Feral cats should die now. Indoor cats are just as evil as their human servants kill millions of creatures and transport this food, and cat feces collectors.are part of the reason for ocean devastation, deforestation, and contributions to carbon emissions (fuel for boats, trucks, factories, proccing aluminum/steal, and plastics) and landfills.
Cats are true parasites. They have changed the host's behavior to sacrifice their lives, and their children's, to support them..
Make the same laws for dog owners apply to cat owners, i.e.1) cats MUST be kept inside the house or in an enclosed exercise cage outside at ALL times, 2) cats must be desexed ( unless they are breeding Pedigreed Cats only) and registered with the local Authorities before they are 6 months old, 3) any household, etc, MUSt have a limit of no more than 2 cats only, unless licensed,registered Pedigreed Cat Breeders, 4) ANY stray cats found wandering the streets, etc, can be impounded, kept for 7 days and, IF unclaimed/collected, euthanazed, 5) any registered and micro-chipped cat impounded WILL result in the owner being fined not less than $500 plus all costs, a second offense WILL incur a further and higher fine plus 30 days of Community Service, and last but by no means least,6) anyone caught/found to be or have been DUMPING unwanted cats/kittens SHALL be fined not less than $1,000 for the first offense and not less than $1,500 for the second PLUS be ordered to do NO less than 60 days of Community Service.
On y property I have but ONE rule; a cat comes into my property and it exits via the soonest Council Rubbish collection in a closed and sealed plastic bag, deader than Julius Caesar, my property is a kind of personally declared sanctuary for native birds and reptiles.
Triphid
Level 9
Dec 10, 2018
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Yes. Thanks for your understanding.
@Jacar Mate, I've seen the damage and wrought on Native Fauna here in Australia first hand.
I've seen what feral cats do to new-born/young lambs, I've seen feral cats literally eating away at the rear end of a ewe as she is giving birth.
I'd be underestimating the numbers of feral cats I've shot or trapped and killed in my lifetime if I were to say it was in the hundreds, most Sheep Graziers around here used put a bounty of $2.00 per feral cat scalp brought into them but I did it for free and just left the carcass hanging the nearest 5 strand wire fence.
In just one evening some years back a friend and I killed 35 feral adult cats and found 3 dens with litters in them which we humanely shot where they were and then filled in the dens.
As you've probably guessed by now, I detest cats, especially those left to roam around freely.
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