[VRWCmember]

Being a dog lover and cat tolerator, and also being an occasional dove and quail hunter, if I see a stray cat out in the woods where I am quail hunting I shoot it.

[bicyclerepair]

Ka-BOOM!

[sheik yerbouty]

A year or two hence, Wisconsin will have organized rodent hunts..

[PeterFinn]

Good for you. I live in Calfornia and when I'm out if I come across a family cat who comes up and says "Hi!" then I reach down, pet it, and see if there is a collar and bring it back to the owner if there is. Otherwise I take it to the nearest pound.

The cats that run or otherwise act wild get shot.

California Quail, the state bird, are being hunted to extinction by non-native cats and I will shoot the feral cats every chance I get to protect the quail and other birds.

If cat "lovers" really loved their cats they'd keep them safe inside their homes. Safe from Parvo, feline leukemia, dogs, other cats, raptors, and me. I can't tell how many times I've seen someone's cat become a hawk or eagle snack. You cannot tell me that a bullet from my rifle is a less humane demise for a feral cat than to be dismembered alive by a hawk or an eagle.

[zygoat]

"Being a dog lover and cat tolerator, and also being an occasional dove and quail hunter, if I see a stray cat out in the woods where I am quail hunting I shoot it."

Why? It's probably hunting quail too. Oh, I guess the cat didn't buy a license.

[Pillows]

if I see a stray cat out in the woods where I am quail hunting I shoot it.

I believe that's a felony.

[blackie]

I do the same with unleashed dogs.

[Houmatt]

But how do you know the cat is a stray?

I used to own a couple of cats when I lived in Oklahoma, near a wooded area. The cats went out there all the time.

[Wisconsin155]

My questions apply to all hunters

I have no idea, but can you really tell from 300 yards away if a cat has a collar or not? When in doubt, take him out?

Further, how do you know a cat is really feral, and not a farm cat? Don't farmers keep barn cats to control rodents?

On the other hand, unless we get to the point that we have a large rodent problem, owners should be responsible and keep their cats indoors. But this proposal seems like a rather extreme way to solve owner irresponsibility. Why not simply level fines for cats caught outdoors?

[damiansatana]

This lady finally saw the damage her cats were doing.

"My understanding then of predator and prey relationships in nature was simple and misguided. I viewed predation as a natural phenomenon. Predators hunt and kill, and prey utilize evasive maneuvers to avoid getting caught. It's natural for cats to kill and so I thought that birds and other local wildlife had built-in defenses against their predation. I couldn't have been more wrong. My reasoning was missing an extremely important variable called evolution."

http://www.matrifocus.com/LAM02/earth.htm