Should cats be culled to stop extinctions?

BBC ^ | March 28, 2019 | Helen Briggs

[rjsimmon]

How do they think animals got to these islands in the first place?

[Governor Dinwiddie]

In before the kitty lovers stroke out.

[Redcitizen]

Each cat will have to be culled 9 times. That’s a lot of work considering how many feral cats there are.

[a fool in paradise]

The world is culling western civilization

[chris37]

Cull the damned “scientists”.

Enough out of them already.

[riverrunner]

Yes there is no shortage of cats or dogs.

[Tallguy]

The Brits are pushing stories all over the Internet about the decline insect species, and now small mammals (rodents?) Is there something in the water over in the UK?

[j.havenfarm]

I think they should be culled.
Not for the reasons stated, just on general principle.

[a fool in paradise]

Must preserve the feral mice

[Reno89519]

Wait, so it is our fault that kitties and piggies and all have to eat?

I don't know anyone, anywhere that eats a cat. Obama eats dog, and pigs, well we all eat BACON...

On a more serious note, and no, not many things more important that BACON, it is interesting that most of extinctions occur on these island, by animals--not directly by humans. We eliminate these animals and we stop the bulk of extinctions? A nice Pareto Chart is in order.

[rlmorel]

There are an equal number of people who wouldn’t go along with this simply because it is a Leftist point of view, and reading this article, it sounds like leftist environmentalist boilerplate.

[treetopsandroofs]

Sure, bring back the Black Death for leftist freaks’ low-pop utopia!

[rlmorel]

I agree, I don’t have a problem with culling things that are out of balance. I don’t hunt, but isn’t deer hunting by humans exactly that, and in a positive way?

[mountainlion]

Is there something in the water ...

Either propaganda or some religious cult.

[gundog]

In the spirit of stroked out cat lovers, I offer Sungirl's final post:

How long can I keep expired prescription drugs? What happens if you take them when they are like 5 years old? Are they just weakened? Or can they make you sick? Just wondering.

[mewzilla]

We don’t stroke.

We strike.

Just like our putties.

[rktman]

They misspelled DEMS. They put CATS.

[eyeamok]

The exact same argument can and should be used regarding Illegal Immigration.

[gundog]

Locally, coastal Oregon, biologists poison native wildlife in favor of expanding a small population of snowy plovers. The plovers have been expanding there range nationally, and when they reached Oregon, the enviros saw a chance to clamp down on human activity.