Posted on 01/17/2012 8:22:06 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat
The Obama administration took steps Tuesday to stop the spread of non-native snakes like pythons and anacondas throughout the Florida Everglades.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
If we could just train the pythons to eat Melaleuca trees.
Domestic cats tend to get turned loose by owners in times of life or economic distress or, in college towns, at the end of the semester. Most soon fall prey to a combination of starvation, disease, injury, and predators, usually coyotes. Genuinely feral cats are a major cause of the decline of songbirds in the US and Europe, and in Australia, they exact a heavy toll on protected wildlife. One wallaby protection activist took to wearing a cap made of the skin of a feral cat as a way to both make his point and to outrage cat lovers.
Others who say a bounty is the answer are also right. But Salazar wont let them do that. Plenty of folks able and willing to hunt them. But what would PETA say?
GG
I’m sure it worked (to outrage cat lovers). I’m not a fan of feral cats (or the colonies). And they are quite good little predators. If they would stick with just rats and mice they would be ok but they don’t. And they spread disease including parasites. I like cats, but they are non-native and you’re exactly right. I was just surprised how many I saw on this trip, I had never seen so many before (we travel the same route and stay in the same places every year). And I never used to see ANY around here, but the past couple of years I have started seeing (and smelling) them.
They can have the illegals build tunnels for them and they can just “slink” under the boundaries.
They can have the illegals build tunnels for them and they can just “slink” under the boundaries.
WHOOPS - SORRY! Took my eye off the page!!!!
I say, let Bowbama head to Everglades Nat’l Park and head into the mangroves to capture or kill a couple. Could be a good thing. The snakes, nor Bowbama will ever come out....
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