Posted on 05/16/2023 1:45:43 PM PDT by nickcarraway
But it is easy to send kids to go hunt them? Ok, Lets go back to the Mesolithic Hunter Gathers prior to 10,000 BC and just follow them.
If the Government can push for hunting (kids) then that same Government can have a policy to push for spay and neutering of every feral cat trapped.
It is a choice, I think the better of the 2 choices is to spay and neuter not call for kids to go hunting.
My comments are not ignorant, that is your opinion, there is nothing ignorant. There is a problem with feral cats in Australia, there is problem now with Feral hogs across most of the Southern USA, there problems with feral pythons now in Florida.
Feral Hogs, Cats and Pythons are not the same animals and can via government policy be handled differently. There are choices. Cats do not pose a threat to humans, Pythons do and Feral Hogs, especially females with young ones have attacked and killed humans.
Why don’t you provide several million dollars to get them off to the right start.
No, not really because everyone feeds them.
why don’t you if you are so damn interested in seeing cats just killed.
Turning kids loose to kills cats indiscriminately, I mean what can go wrong. One of them goes on to somebodies property thinking it is a feral cat, and it is somebody’s pet cat, and the kid has a weapon, then what if????????????????? somebody who views their pets as part of the family views the kid as a threat to their person and property and shoots the kid.
And edit to my own post, I realize that in most USA States, that pets are property and you can’t use deadly force to protect property, only when your life is in danger.
But that is the general rule, I saw a Police officer shoot a guy that was stabbing a Police Dog just recently. Texas state law might be the one where a Pet can be protected with force, but not sure as I do not live in Texas.
Bison make angry bulls look like puppies.
There are millions of them and they are also wiping out song birds.
They are when it comes to the predation of the natural wildlife where they have free reign to hunt without the control of humans........
And for what it's worth, At any given point in time, there are between 7.0 – 11.2 million cats spread across 99.9% of the continent: 1.4 – 5.6 million feral cats in the bush depending on rainfall conditions......
So how many Trap, Neuter and Release traps do you want to set up to control the problem?.............LOL!
Well in some parts of the world, the feral cats may not be the problem for birds such as in Australia and New Zealand.
When you say cats, what type of cats are you talking about? Are we talking about? The ones that humans domesticated over 9,000 years ago. In advanced societies, not the bush, there are means to do it. Even the article by the OP says the Country has a plan to by 2040 or so to use spay and neuter, and restricting people to only 3 cats (idiotic humans who buy cats, then dump them and not have them spayed and neutered as a major part of the problem).
I would be willing to bet most of the idiots wanting to have kids under 14 to run around and kill cats are the parents or grandparents who contributed to the problem.
LOL! You just contradicted yourself in every stupid statement you posted trying to argue against the killing of feral cats in Australia........LOL!
Time to go, no sense arguing with idiots.....Sheesh!
But I said Australia and New Zealand are supposedly civilized countries and can handle it differently. Can countries in Africa handle it with spay and neuter, probably not.
In poor areas of India, probably not.
Australia and New Zealand think of themselves as civilized countries, well then act like one.
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