Posted on 07/17/2015 1:41:18 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
The Australian government announced plans to cull up to 2 million feral cats by 2020 in a bid to preserve dozens of native species that authorities claim face extinction because of the cats' predatory behavior.
Speaking to a national radio station, Gregory Andrews, the country's first threatened-species Commissioner, said Australian Environment Minister Greg Hunt "is declaring war on feral cats, and he's asked me to take charge of that program."
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Dogs make up the majority of the Australian government.
Since they’re feral, I really don’t have a problem with this.
Good
feral kitty ping.
Bring ‘em to the US as refugees!
LOL!
Didn’t Australia go through this with rabbits at one point in their history? I remember watching a movie called, ‘Rabbit-Proof Fence’ and it was about the re-location of their native people to ‘water-down’ their population and how one girl kept escaping wherever they relocated her to, to get back to her tribe. I mean, she walked THOUSANDS of miles of that fence line to do it, too!
Maybe 0bama is right about Colonialism? Except now it’s all about cats! ;)
That would string a lot of tennis rackets...
Hopefully they learned lessons from their last battle against animals, the Great Emu War.
"Say Hello to my little friend."
What ever happened to survival of the fittest?
Sad that it has to come to that. There are just too many and shelters can’t find enough homes. They carry disease, they can be vicious. Plus stupid people won’t spay or neuter. It’s really the fault of idiot humans letting them breed indiscriminately and dumping unwanted cats in rural and wooded areas.
Can’t they just get crazy old Australian ladies to take them all in?
Australia’s food exports to China soar by over 500%. Film at 11.
I’ve been talking about this for years. It’s a problem all over the planet. Take a moment and educate yourself about feline zoonoses, the damage these non-native invasive species do to wildlife - especially songbirds - how much damage they bring to the environment all over the globe. Crazy cat ladies excluded, of course, you’re incorrigible, ineducable. The only good house cat is an INDOOR cat; they don’t belong outdoors, anywhere, ever. The only cure is eradication. Let’s hear it for the grown ups down under, making the hard choices.
LOL!!!
“What ever happened to survival of the fittest?”
Remember the (I think “spotted”) owl that shut down the entire timber industry in the northwest? It’s being run into extinction by a more competitive owl. So, we lost an entire industry and still didn’t save the owls.
Cats are excellent providers of rodent control.
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