[LetGoNow]

So I should be allowed to release 1,000 wolves into your back yard and let them follow their “natural instincts”?

Do YOU realize how ignorant YOUR post sounds? I’m serious. Until you understand the implications of releasing non-native predators into an environment then you speak from ignorance. And that is what it sure looks like from my side of the fence.

[Ditter]

If you released 1000 wolves into my back yard they would mostly get run over in the traffic, like our local coyotes do sometimes. No I am not in favor of releasing non native species, I have seen the damage they can do. But cats don’t have a very big impact on wild birds.

I live right in the middle of Houston on a ravine and my yard is a bird sanctuary. I have dozens of species of birds and dozens of others that migrate through. We have several neighborhood cats and I have never seen any of them catch a bird, rats yes, squirrels yes, but no birds.

My last cat died several years ago, the last of 7 housecats. I am now officially allergic to cat dander and I won’d be getting any more.

[MizSterious]

Go ahead, release the wolves in MY back yard. I’m pretty good with my pea-shooter. (And you thought my CATS were predatory...)

[uglybiker]

Until you understand the implications of releasing non-native predators into an environment then you speak from ignorance.

That's okay. Most of the birds in my area are non-native (sparrows, pigeons, starlings...). So the cat helps even things out.

[Darksheare]

Wow, how snide and nasty!
Cats are natural predators.
Always have been since the dawn of time.
Lions, cheetahs, cougar, bobcat, ocelots, they are all natural predators.
Just because J.P. Tabby likes his fuzzy roost on a couch doesn’t make him any less of a predator.

Now, as for your post of releasing 1000 wolves in someone’s yard, there wouldn’t be enough space for them all, they’d all fight among themselves.
And that would provide me with hours of quite bloody entertainment as the wolves struggle to dominate each other into their natural social INSTINCTUAL order.

Now, I COULD release 1000 deer ticks into your underwear drawers...

[roamer_1]

So I should be allowed to release 1,000 wolves into your back yard and let them follow their “natural instincts”?

Yeah, that's already been done up here in MT....

What possible reason would anyone have for owning a cat if not to hunt critters? That is what they are for. Cats hunt rats, mice, birds and etc... It is what they do.

Don't worry about the birds... God will make more. :D

-Bruce