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Should cats be culled to stop extinctions?
BBC ^ | March 28, 2019 | Helen Briggs

Posted on 03/29/2019 5:55:47 AM PDT by C19fan

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To: C19fan

Lemme tell ya bout endangered species, awright? Saving endangered species is just one more arrogant attempt by humans to control Nature.

It’s arrogant meddling. It’s what got us in trouble in the first place. Doesn’t anybody understand that? Interfering with Nature. Over 90 percent, over, way over 90 percent, of the species that have ever lived on this planet, ever lived, are gone. Wooosh! They’re extinct. We didn’t kill them all. They just disappeared. That’s what nature does. They disappear these days at the rate of 25 a day—and I mean regardless of our behavior. Irrespective of how we act on this planet, 25 species that were here today will be gone tomorrow. Let them go gracefully. Leave Nature alone.

Haven’t we done enough?
We’re so self-important, so self-important. Everybody’s gonna save something now. Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails. And the greatest arrogance of all, save the planet. What? Are these @ people kidding me? Save the planet? We don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet. We haven’t learned to care for one another—we’re gonna save the @in’ planet? I’m gettin’ tired of that @. Tired of that @. Tired.

-George Carlin


41 posted on 03/29/2019 7:56:17 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: hinckley buzzard

You missed my point.

I am not talking about the issue of invasive species, as I said on another post right below it. It is how they frame it that makes it Leftist.


42 posted on 03/29/2019 8:18:18 AM PDT by rlmorel (If racial attacks were as common as the Left wants you to think, they wouldn't have to make them up.)
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To: bgill
How about we cull scientists?

And cat haters....

43 posted on 03/29/2019 8:19:50 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: C19fan

How about we add the timber wolves that were reintroduced to the lower 48 to the list of invasive species?


44 posted on 03/29/2019 8:24:56 AM PDT by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of arrogance, incompetence, and corruption.)
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To: rlmorel

Another human attempt. However, the CWD (chronic wasting disease) seems to be rearing its ugly head.


45 posted on 03/29/2019 8:28:52 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Little Ray

We have two wonderful kitties. Yes, the big guy snares a bird from time to time. However, he also cleans up on rodents, moles, voles, and anything in holes! So let’s not forget that contribution.


46 posted on 03/29/2019 8:32:55 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: C19fan

IMHO, the greatest threat, after humans, are the hogs! Nothing can stop them! And they eat everything, even each other!


47 posted on 03/29/2019 8:34:22 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: SgtHooper

That is what I have heard.


48 posted on 03/29/2019 8:35:23 AM PDT by rlmorel (If racial attacks were as common as the Left wants you to think, they wouldn't have to make them up.)
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To: C19fan

This is how cynical I’ve become: my first thought is “how long before the unhinged left declare that culling Caucasians is Planet Earth’s only choice for survival”?.

Then I laughed at that ridiculous thought.
Then I stopped laughing. [[[[[shiver]]]]]


49 posted on 03/29/2019 8:37:03 AM PDT by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON)
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To: C19fan

no! I love cats.


50 posted on 03/29/2019 8:46:59 AM PDT by ronniesgal (so I wonder what his FR handle is????)
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To: Redcitizen

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

That’s why I shoot feral cats ten times.

Nine times to kill them and once to make sure.


51 posted on 03/29/2019 8:57:57 AM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: C19fan

95% of all species that ever lived have gone or will go extinct. Deal with it!


52 posted on 03/29/2019 9:10:38 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: j.havenfarm

Not opposed if necessary, tho I don’t believe in killing animals for the hell of it. I COULD make an exception for the cat my neighbor feeds(but it isn’t his he claims) . It HOWLS and moans at MY door, not his, at 4 or 5 am. Deathly, sickening sound from a horror movie. It has the nerve to hiss and growl at me. If it jumps on my maltepoos it will be a flying cat.


53 posted on 03/29/2019 9:24:13 AM PDT by ClearBlueSky (ISLAM is the problem. ISLAM is the enemy of civilization.)
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To: C19fan

Funny, I originally read the title as “Cats Should be killed...”. To which I heartily concur.


54 posted on 03/29/2019 9:25:53 AM PDT by Thunder 6
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To: Little Ray

We used to have Whippoorwills, haven’t heard any in at least 15+ years. I often wonder if all the free running cats just killed them off, they nest right on the ground. Of course there could be other factors as well.

Freegards


55 posted on 03/29/2019 9:29:56 AM PDT by Ransomed
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To: C19fan

Cat lives matter!


56 posted on 03/29/2019 10:54:59 AM PDT by NorseViking
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To: Thunder 6

I would enjoy playing basketball with you cat killing scum. You’d never leave the court.


57 posted on 03/29/2019 11:00:41 AM PDT by Fairhairedboy (MAGA)
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To: Thunder 6

I play today at noon near the San Jose Airport. Let me know if you w ant in?


58 posted on 03/29/2019 11:03:00 AM PDT by Fairhairedboy (MAGA)
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To: C19fan

I believe that they have been doing this in Australia becuase of the out of control Feral cat population.


59 posted on 03/29/2019 11:06:27 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Reno89519
I don't know anyone, anywhere that eats a cat
ever eaten meat at a Chinese restaurant?

60 posted on 03/29/2019 1:04:01 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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