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And you need a reason shoot Feral Cats

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  • 30-01-2013 12:07am
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    clivej
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    Cats killing billions of animals in the US


    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21236690


    Cats are one of the top threats to US wildlife, killing billions of animals each year, a study suggests.
    The authors estimate they are responsible for the deaths of between 1.4 and 3.7 billion birds and 6.9-20.7 billion mammals annually.

    Writing in Nature Communications, the scientists said stray and feral cats were the worst offenders.
    However, they added that pet cats also played a role and that owners should do more to reduce their impact.


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    hedzball
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    Reason enough..







    'hdz


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    4gun
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    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10862513


    This chap has the same Idea in New Zealand


    Here is the local reply


    http://www.facebook.com/CatsAgainstGarethMorgan?ref=stream

    On a slightly different note, In NZ they get a NZ$100/kg bounty on possum pelts because of the damage they are doing to the eco-system


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    CJhaughey
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    4gun wrote: »
    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10862513


    This chap has the same Idea in New Zealand
    The thing is in NZ there is a lot of flightless bird life that is severely impacted by Cats, Stoats and Possums that eat the eggs.
    I would fully support mandatory microchipping and licensing, if its good enough for dog owners then its good enough for cat owners.
    And no more of this rubbish about Trapping neutering and releasing cats back into the wild to do more damage.
    They should be trapped and checked for chips, no chip=destroyed.
    It can't go on the way it is.


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    meathstevie
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    I've never understood why one would trap feral cats; fix them up, neuter them and than let them back out again. Feral cats are a problem so you trap part of the problem, fix it up and release it again to cause more havoc ?

    I'm by no means saying that any cat in a field is fair game but I for one would not hesitate to shoot a cat I've seen a few times behaving like a wild animal a fair distance from any dwelling. To clarify that; I'm not talking about the likes of a cat a few minutes walking away from a farm; that's more than likely the farmers' little ratter. I'm talking about the half starved wild as lightning yokes you encounter more and more down the end of remote lanes in fields and bogs where their loving owners seem to bring them for their permanent holidays in the wild.

    In reply to the post above; not because they're easy to shoot but because they're a wildlife disaster.


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