hunting /killing feral cats

[afterhours]

peta, cat lovers, and many single women will be very upset. wonder if they'll issue non-resident cat stamps

[fishweewee]

Poor Fluffy.

[fishsmith]

This is great .. I can see the sunday morning shows on ESPN

Todays Tip - "Its alot like a duck call or banging deer racks together, but for the feral cats, you can't beat lightly tapping a can of friskies on the top with a spoon to bring them out of the dumpster"

[Notaro]

How can you seperate fferal cats from other cats? It seems to me that they look the same to me.

[Bassman18]

Notaro,

"The proposal would allow licensed hunters to kill free-roaming cats, including any domestic cat that isn't under the owner's direct control or any cat without a collar"

If a cat's outside without any ID, it goes bye bye

[tynan19]

Originally Posted by Bassman18

Notaro,

If a cat's outside without any ID, it goes bye bye

I would be pissed if someone shot my cat, just cause it was outside across the street.

[Notaro]

oic, i dont like cats anyway. sometimes they are mean...

[MakoMike]

Originally Posted by tynan19

I would be pissed if someone shot my cat, just cause it was outside across the street.

Then keep it inside or under your control. No reason the bird population has to suffer because you choose to own a cat
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[Raven]

Originally Posted by afterhours

peta, cat lovers, and many single women will be very upset.

Every year in Wisconsin alone, an estimated 2 million wild cats kill 47 million to 139 million songbirds, according to state officials. Despite the astounding numbers, the proposal has been met with fierce opposition from cat lovers such as Ted O'Donnell. >>>> screw ted!!!!<<<<

will the p.e.t.a. people be just as concerned for the ethical treatment of the wild bird population thats being completely decimated??? after all they are animals too.... and have just as much right or more so....to live as cats gone wild.... those cats will scratch your eyes out and bite your lip in half.....

and if they were wild dogs running in packs killing young children then it would be a completely different attitude....

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by afterhours

peta, cat lovers, and many single women will be very upset.

Yup, they sure will. So will a bunch of other people who are normally neutral towards hunting, or even in favor of it.

It will be a public relations disaster for hunters. Especially when the papers start interviewing teary-eyed, fresh faced, gingham dress wearing little girls whose free-roaming, no-collar pets got wasted by the "gun nut" who lives three houses down.

I mean, this thing is just in the talking stage right now, and they've already got 17,000 signatures on petitions against it.

Hunting has enough enemies as it is--we don't need to create more by this kind of stupidity.

[outfished]

A few years back an old girlfriend suggested we catch a ferrel kitten and try to spare its life before the town sent over its animal control officer to get rid of the pack, there was about 7-9 adults and 5 kittens. I wasn't crazy about the idea and with a pair of thick leather gloves I managed to catch one. After a few short days in the house the cat ended up being one of the best cats we ever had. Grew to about 20lbs and lived to be about 15. Still though, not a good idea to try this. They are nasty and carry wicked infections.

[Iwannakeeper]

I love cats - tastes just like chicken.

I am going to head up to Wisconsin and try and bag some trophies


For the PETA people, or anyone without a sense of humor - I am kidding

[Christian]

should see our yaught club over in east boston. theres gotta be 50 cats within 1 block. poopin all over the boats and in the yard. yuck. someone keeps feeding them, but they still are not nice, the second you come close they hiss and run. only thing that bothers me is the poo, the skunks attracted by the cat food are nicer than the cats

[Nebe]

i hope they open the season up quick... cat guts make mean eelskins

[Raven]

some friends and i were walking around the river area and came apon a man in a small boat still tied up to the dock.....he was in the process of feeding what appeared to be his cat and we thought...oh how nice......as the cat was eating he slowly slipped a rope around its neck without it noticing and waited a bit for it to almost finish its meal.....then casually he grabs the concrete block the rope was tied to...and drops it silently over the side....narating that he's been trying to catch this breeder cat for several years....suddenly that cat ran out of rope and was hauled over the side screaming violently much to our amazement and shock as it went down bloop, bloop, bloop and drown.
afterwards......he told us that one cat had given birth to way to many cats and that the place was totally over run with them.

[Gotofish]

Jeez Raven, that was morbid!

[Saltheart]

I'll save my breath. Anyone who would kill someone's cat cause it was outside or didn't have collar is too stupid for me to even waste words on.

[Iwannakeeper]

I would imagine that ground cat would make good shark bait as well.

[fishweewee]

I understand that feral cats are not the same as domesticated ones.

I understand that feral cats wreak havoc on the ecosystem.

I understand that feral cats carry disease.

I understand that feral cats make messes of people's garbage cans.

It just burns my biscuits that people are so irresponsible - that they would let unspayed/unneutered cats into the wild ... so that you have a problem like this pop up.

(Guess you can tell I'm a cat person.)

[scoobe]

My parents own a restaurant and when I was in hs I used to feed the alley cats in the back with table scraps. They got to be pretty friendly. There was one smokey grey one that got particularly brave and even let you touch him.

I think the solution would be to have trained, state hired animal control type officers doing the killing. Then again I guess the point of letting citizens do the huting was to lower costs.

[Notaro]

yup, i agree with that.

Hey Ben, what about those stray cats in Chinatown? Shouldn't they be considered as feral? I know some of the restaurant owners keep cats without tags, but theya re domistcated, and use them to control pests in the restaurant. What would you do about that?