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04-13-2005, 06:50 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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hunting /killing feral cats
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science....ap/index.html
i love nice cats...and like making them purr and turn circles and all that....
but these are not the same..... case in Point: a guy i work with recently decided to give in to his wife's request to adopt a wild cat and her kitten that was living at their church. Since he owned a farm they "thought" it was a nice thing to do. Well ,his wife and friend cornered the cat in their house and tried to grab it and the cat turned around and bit her girlfriend on her hand which quickly got infected (cats have nasty bacteria in their mouth) and required surgery to keep from loosing her hand altogether. It might resemble a domesticated friendly cat.....but they are anything but that and are WILD!
i say open the feral cat season year round and get rid of them before
they multiply. what say you?
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04-13-2005, 07:24 AM
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Afterhours Custom Plugs
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: R.I.
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peta, cat lovers, and many single women will be very upset. wonder if they'll issue non-resident cat stamps  |
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04-13-2005, 07:26 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: .
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Poor Fluffy.
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04-13-2005, 08:44 AM
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DDG-51
Join Date: Mar 2002
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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"
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04-13-2005, 09:38 AM
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None
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Newton, MA
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How can you seperate fferal cats from other cats? It seems to me that they look the same to me.
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04-13-2005, 10:00 AM
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A Yankee in Boston
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Boston/NJ
Posts: 283
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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
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God grant that I may live to fish until my dying day,
And when it comes to my last cast, I most humbly pray,
When in the Lord's safe landing net I'm peacefully asleep,
That in His mercy I be judged, as big enough to keep.
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04-13-2005, 10:11 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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Originally Posted by afterhours
peta, cat lovers, and many single women will be very upset.
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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.... |
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04-13-2005, 01:07 PM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
Posts: 8,158
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Originally Posted by afterhours
peta, cat lovers, and many single women will be very upset.
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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. |
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04-13-2005, 01:22 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Outer Banks of Framingham
Posts: 434
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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.
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04-13-2005, 01:42 PM
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fishing the pacific
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Port Townsend, WA
Posts: 993
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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 |
Keep lines wet and tight in the pacific
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04-13-2005, 02:07 PM
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viva the plug-o-lution
Join Date: May 2002
Location: notsob
Posts: 3,476
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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  |
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