Kick in the door and tazer the children! It’s for the children!!!!
People who make excuses for government intrusion into our lives tend to be all for government interfering in ‘some other guys’ life instead of their own.
Yeah, confiscating and forcibly euthanizing animals by government fiat doesn’t sound conservative to me either.
According to New York state my previous cat [d. 1999] was an ‘illegal F1 feral’ and if she’d been recognized as what she was the state would have confiscated her, euthanized her and then billed me for the privilege of having the state kill my pet.
And then charge me for the crime of having a cat give birth to domestic bobcat crossbreeds on my back porch.
All of this in the name of protecting the populace from the menace of a ‘dangerous feral animal’.
The only danger this cat posed was if you were a mouse or bird.
Somebody once said something about a slippery slope.
Darksheare posted on Saturday, June 11, 2011 2:31:23 PM: “According to New York state my previous cat [d. 1999] was an ‘illegal F1 feral’ and if she’d been recognized as what she was the state would have confiscated her, euthanized her and then billed me for the privilege of having the state kill my pet. And then charge me for the crime of having a cat give birth to domestic bobcat crossbreeds on my back porch.”
Bobcat crossbreeds? Great! I’ve known a number of people who (legally) own exotic crossbreed cats, and since I live in a rural area I’ve heard of unplanned bobcat crossbreeds though I’ve never seen one of those that has been subjected to actual DNA testing to see if it’s a real bobcat crossbreed. On the true crossbreeds, especially if bottlefed from shortly after birth and then fed regularly by hand into young adulthood, they often become fiercely loyal pets to the human they think is their mom and their meal ticket.
Kind of nice having a furry warm meowing cat with the personality of a dog. Given enough time and some scientific breeding, it might be possible to promote a new breed with the good traits (loyalty and territorial defense) without the problematic traits of a wildcat.
That’s not unlike what our ancestors did to get rid of the bad traits of wolves and whatever wildcat species predates the domestic cat to create our current concept of a domestic cat and domestic dog.
Here's some quick stuff about cat crossbreeds. It pretty much confirms my own experience about crossbreeds closely bonding with their “mom” and being fiercely loyal, as well as having high intelligence, “wild” habits such as headbutting people and jumping 8 feet or more into the air, and vocalizations which are nothing like a domestic cat.
I didn't know it, but apparently the Serval-domestic crossbreed actually **HAS** been recognized as a legitimate crossbreed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savannah_(cat)
... and here's a wildcat sanctuary which takes crossbreeds that cannot legally be adopted and would have to be euthanized:
http://www.wildcatsanctuary.org/residents/hybrid-domestic/bengals-savannahs-chausies/
For people who think pit bulls are scary because of their looks, go look at those pictures and imagine a 20-pound ball of fur cuddling up with you on a cold winter night because it thinks you're its mom. I can't see any better reason to outlaw these crossbreed cats than to outlaw a pit bull — i.e., there isn't any good reason.