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Australia is killing millions of feral cats with poisoned sausages
The New York Post/The Sun/AP ^ | April 26, 2019 | Aletha Adu

Posted on 04/26/2019 3:21:24 PM PDT by ConservativeMind

Australian officials are killing millions of feral cats by airdropping frozen sausages laced with poison across the Outback.

The felines die within 15 minutes of ingesting the toxic treats, which are produced at a factory close to Perth.

But in a bid to kill as many as possible, officials also trap and shoot the creatures.

The sausages are made with kangaroo meat, chicken fat, herbs, spices and the poison, 1080, the New York Times reported.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: 1080; cats; cyanide; killing; sick
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To: yarddog
I googled 1080 poison, and this is what I got back...


21 posted on 04/26/2019 3:39:28 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: ConservativeMind




Australia is killing millions of feral cats with poisoned sausages...

Can't they just send these unwanted creatures to a remote island somewhere at the bottom of the Earth where they won't do civilized people any harm?




22 posted on 04/26/2019 3:40:39 PM PDT by golux
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To: ConservativeMind

1. Poison is extremely cruel. Depending on the type, it causes seizures, hemorrhaging, or burns.

2. Poisons are not selective. This bait will kill non-target species, as well.

3. Cat haters love to go on about the supposed environmental damage that cats cause. However, the damage caused by allowing rodents and other small animals to breed without any checks on their population is worse. Despite what cat-haters who hide behind environmental concerns claim, cats *are* an integral part of ecosystems that humans inhabit.

I wonder, now that this cruel program has been publicized, how much longer it will last?


23 posted on 04/26/2019 3:42:57 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: PGR88

I just wonder if it’s 11......


24 posted on 04/26/2019 3:43:02 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: ConservativeMind

Statistics from The Royal Melbourne Institute revealed individual shooters killed 83 percent of feral cats who were deliberately killed across the country.


25 posted on 04/26/2019 3:43:42 PM PDT by samtheman (To steal an election, who do you collude with? Russians in Russia or Mexicans in California?)
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To: RatRipper

Rabbits are the second type of critters wreaking havoc, there are miles and miles and miles of what’s called rabbit fencing to keep them out of farm land.


26 posted on 04/26/2019 3:45:29 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: ConservativeMind

PS: But then too, millions of rodents; rats and mice.


27 posted on 04/26/2019 3:46:04 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: bgill

The first one here was a Japanese Bobtail. A really pretty cat and excellent hunter. She had a litter of five really gorgeous kittens. I mean really pretty ones.

Only one of that litter reached adulthood. Lots of predators here, eagles, hawks, owls, coyotes, foxes etc. That one, my Grandchildren named, Tiger, now has five or her own.

These aren’t as pretty as the others but still cute. At least they keep the snakes and rats away. They are technically wild. They hang around and beg for food but will not let me hold them.

There is one other, a big yellow one my Grandkids named Ginger. He is actually very tame and lets me pet him at will. He only shows up maybe once every week or so. He does not get along with the others.


28 posted on 04/26/2019 3:46:20 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: ConservativeMind
That's not a sausage. This is a sausage. Never mind.
29 posted on 04/26/2019 3:52:33 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Tijeras_Slim

When I played on a rugby team with a bunch of Aussies that was one of rugby party challenges - mostly for Americans (That ‘Men at Work’ song was popular then!). A drink of beer, vegemite on a cracker, drink of beer again vegemite on a cracker, repeat until you threw up or ran out of beer. I have no idea where they got it, I’ve never seen it for sale here (Though I haven’t really looked!) I assume they brought it in or their mommas sent it to them.


30 posted on 04/26/2019 3:52:34 PM PDT by Reily
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To: RatRipper

Could be....I think 1080 doesn’t break down so whatever comes to eat the cat will die as well, such as hawks or vultures. I guess there is a cost /benefit factor to consider.

If they are doing it to try to save grass keets then fewer hawks could help them, too. But then there might be more rodents as a result, and they will feast on keet eggs.


31 posted on 04/26/2019 3:53:56 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: bgill

Two of my fur babies were from a litter of feral cats born in my back yard. We trapped them all, had mom spayed and put her back out in the yard, and kept the kittens. The two girls remained somewhat skittish, but the boy is the sweetest little fellow one could imagine.


32 posted on 04/26/2019 3:54:29 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: exDemMom

stay tuned for the Australian bubonic plague epidemic.

must be something in the water down there.


33 posted on 04/26/2019 3:56:38 PM PDT by Segovia
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To: bgill

Cats are vermin and feral cats should be killed whenever possible. They are listed as the second most destructive invasive species on earth and even well fed house cats kill millions of birds every year. If I let a dog run loose and it dropped off a cat that it had torn apart on your doorstep would you think it was cute? Probably not. But people think nothing about posting of the gifts their cats bring them. Cats should be kept in the home or not at all and it should be open season on the rest.


34 posted on 04/26/2019 3:58:59 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: bgill

You are right-but I guess we shouldn’t assume that the Aussies are thinking about the fact that every creature will eat the poisoned meat-what are they going to do-label it for cats only so all the other animals will leave it alone? And I don’t suppose anyone thought about the fact that the runoff from poison will get into the groundwater...

One of the shows on Animal Planet a few years ago talked about the fact that Australia periodically has had mouse/rat problems of horror movie-like proportions more than once, because they are so diligent about killing off the predator species in their natural world, and now they don’t want any non-native predators, either-what will they do when the rats/mice overbreed in a cat-free environment and there aren’t even any feral cats to contain the rodents?

Two of my 3 shelter cats started life as feral cats-they may be spoiled indoor pets now, but they are still great mousers-no rodent ever gets past the storeroom-cats are valued -people here take ferals to a lowcost spay/neuter program and make them pets-they keep mice/rats out of our barns and feed sheds...

Australians sound totally clueless...


35 posted on 04/26/2019 4:01:22 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

I take it you don’t live in a rural area where rats and mice are an issue for people who keep poultry and livestock-cats keep the rodents in check-there are plenty of birds-cats will not kill them all-and raptors like redtail hawks prey on feral kittens, so...


36 posted on 04/26/2019 4:10:30 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: ConservativeMind

Put cats on the menu; the other white meat! and see how fast they disappear.

This type of management has been a problem in Australia for a long time. They import one animal for a supposedly good reason. It quickly get out of control, so they take drastic action without truly looking at the unintended consequences.


37 posted on 04/26/2019 4:11:07 PM PDT by dirtymac (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country! Now)
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To: yarddog

Please don’t tell me you feed them.


38 posted on 04/26/2019 4:12:32 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Beta Male O'Rourke is a fake Mexican.)
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To: RatRipper

There is.


39 posted on 04/26/2019 4:13:07 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SkyDancer

And some of us have them as indoor house pets.


40 posted on 04/26/2019 4:14:41 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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