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"Just like pesticides and shotguns."

Ah, how very liberal of you.

That's an incredibly ridiculous statement. Maybe you even know that.

Man is the ultimate guardian of nature. He is responsible to use his BRAIN and tools to keep nature in balance. When logic is trumped by emotionalism, people and animals suffer.

Emotionalism led to the ban on DDT without scientific evidence of harm. The result is millions of people died a painful death. Along with man birds that were bitten by diseased mosquitos. There's a rebuttal to your idiotic 'pesticides' argument.

In certain areas, emotionalism has lead to hunting bans. In other places, people wanted predators removed so certain 'pretty' animals like deer could flourish. Guess what. They flourished. Then they reached a point of overpopulation. Then they starved. They suffered a cruel, inhuman death because of people using their emotions and their feelings instead of their brains. Now they are kept in check with shotguns and rifles.

Now for your poor little kittie cat. If he does get out in the wild, the biggest threat isn't a hunter with a gun. It's a full blown feral cat that will kill your fluffy friend just for fun. You and others talk about this being cruel to animals. There are few things more cruel than a feral at in the wild that will toy with its pray before it is killed. And it will do this over and over again to many different animals throughout its lifetime.

Now who is the cruel one: The conservationists who want to keep this from happening, or you, the one who wants an invasive species to be allowed to roam free and kill countless animals in a cruel manner?

It's become very clear that you and people like you are the problem. You allow the feral cats to go unchecked with your ridiculous factless arguments that try to equate wild animals with a common housecat.

Here, why don't you start demanding the armed forces stop its feral cat control program:

http://www.afpmb.org/pubs/tims/tim37.htm

REASONS FOR FERAL/STRAY (henceforth referred to as feral) CAT CONTROL

1. Feral cats are animals that are no longer under human control, but live and reproduce in the wild, usually in close association with humans. Humans have neglected these animals, which live exposed to disease, hunger, weather and attack from dogs, humans or other cats and animals. Some of these cats may survive for several years before succumbing to starvation, disease, dogs, other animals or motor vehicles. Failure to prevent or control a feral cat population amounts to inhumane treatment of animals.

2. Feral cats can harbor and transmit a variety of fatal and non-fatal diseases to domestic cats and other pets. These diseases include rabies, plague, parasitic worms, external parasites such as fleas and mites, feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV), feline leukemia virus (FeLV), feline distemper or panleukopenia, feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), and various bacterial infections.

3. Feral cats can also harbor and transmit fatal and non-fatal diseases to humans. These include rabies, plague, ringworm, internal and external parasites, toxoplasmosis, bartonellosis (formerly known as cat scratch fever), allergies to cat hair, and secondary bacterial infections from cat scratches and bites.

4. Feral cats living in close association with humans can also damage buildings, contaminate food supplies, and kill birds and other wildlife. Parasites such as fleas are often a problem in areas inhabited by feral cats.

I guess all branches of the armed forces are just a bunch of 'rednecks' according to you, and their facts about the damage feral cats can cause is just made up.