[boatbums]

I'm with you, Texan5. It's because people have been irresponsible and lazy that we even have a feral cat (python, dog, nonnative fish, etc.) problem. There ARE humane ways to resolve it. I don't think I could even be friends with, much less respect, someone who could go out and shoot strays without a second thought. Killing animals for food is one thing, killing them because you don't want to be bothered is an entirely different matter.

[Texan5]

My family never allowed the kids to be irresponsible or cruel-we were raised with house pets as part of the family-and we were taught the proper feeding and care of livestock-horses to chickens-at an early age.

We were taught to hunt-but never near a feeder-and only what was intended for food, unless it was a poisonous snake.

We were not allowed to play with the children of anyone known or rumored to be cruel to animals-even when my dad was in the military and we lived in other places that was true. I asked why once, and my dad just said it wasn’t a healthy way for people to think and act-end of discussion.