Posted on 05/25/2020 3:59:08 AM PDT by C19fan
A feral cat about the size of a small dingo has been spotted in Australia's Simpson desert carrying a huge sand goanna it had just killed. Researchers captured the cat on film at the Ethabuka Reserve near the Queensland-Northern Territory border on wildlife cameras they'd set up to study decomposing animals in the desert. The photograph shows the stark reality of Australia's feral cat problem, with the pests responsible for killing three billion native animals each year. Scientists believe feral cats have been directly responsible for the extinction of 34 mammal species since they arrived in Australia 200 years ago.
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My cat dreams of being like that. Don’t show the video to any cats in your life.
As with all problematic situations the best remedy is mitigation at the source.
Reinstated firearms, shoot’em
I skimmed the article. 5.6 million feral cats. That’s 21.4 million claws and 145,600,000 teeth. Yeah, Australia has a problem.
"A feral cat ate your baby"
If OJ is still looking for the real killers, he could go here.
i hidz here
Here in the USA we have a feral human problem. Ours play the “knockout game”, punch out senior citizens and McDonald’s employees and take designer basketball shoes and TVs on Black Fridays and/or during flooding and quarantining.
Holy screaming feline trotters!
What are you feeding these feral cats down under?
( I want one.)
Round the cats up and take ‘em to NYC.
That thing is huge. Yes, they should start shooting them.
Pfft. How many American male housecats have we got over 15 pounds?
And how many mammal species have humans done in Down Under in the last 200 years?
They do. When I was stationed in Australia in the early 80s, someone shot one that weighed 32 Kilos. It was in the local paper.
That’s 70 pounds.
And that was a feral or wild cat. Still a Felis Domesticus, but not fat, just big and incredibly muscular.
“How many American male housecats have we got over 15 pounds?”
We have two of ‘em.
According to the article, the feral cats have been directly responsible for the extinction of 34 mammal species since they arrived in Australia 200 years ago. The introduction of cats into the wild in the 1800’s was to control the rabbit, rat, and mice populations. So they were put in there by humans to do exactly what they are doing, kill things to eat so they can survive with the by product being extinction of rabbits, rats, and mice for man’s comfort.
When you check the tally books though, you’ll find that man has in it’s history wiped out 112 animal species, not including other man:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Species_made_extinct_by_human_activities
I can see the beginning of a Warner Brothers cartoon:
mouse being pest in hotel room, send in cat, send in dog to get cat, send in lion to get dog, send in elephant to get lion, send in mouse to scare away elephant.
Why is it man has to mess with nature and then wonder why the outcome is failure, every time. So who’s wrong here, the cats or man? I guess after the cats, we need to start shooting man. They created the problem after all.
rwood
One block saw a kangaroo be hit by a car in the equivalent of a national forest, without cell phone service. He stopped, got out of the car, retrieved a rifle from the trunk, and delivered a mercy shot to the kangaroo who had a broken back.
Someone got his license number, informed the authorities, and they fined him and took away his gun license and guns.
He will never be allowed to legally own guns again.
He was told he should have contacted the authorities, he had no legal right to shoot the kangaroo.
In most Australian states, you have to get a separate gun license for your children, to teach them to shoot.
Or punch out old white patients in nursing homes. Luckily however, none of which are hate crimes........
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