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."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Count Floyd’s got plenty going on, what with the giant African snails in Florida, and now this.
I miss SCTV.
“We saw cat!”
LOLLOL
Stealing that :)
In addition to feral cats, there is the current Australian Cane Toad invasion...the toads reproduce faster than the rabbits (early 1900’s). The toads were originally imported from Louisiana to supposedly control a beetle in sugar cane...they didn’t and now they are a huge problem: http://travel.cnn.com/sydney/visit/cane-toad-invasion-reaches-south-and-north-communities-fight-back-027094
Even “Dirty Jobs” Mike Rowe got in on the toad killin’ action! http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/dirty-jobs/videos/toadbusters/
From reading the first patagraph I infer they have a lot of Gregs there, too. I hope they don’t get rid of them
Oh Goodness! There will be an Australian Cat Lift, A Cat Aid concert and tiger-striped ribbons, Save the Pussies!
Classic National Lampoon cartoon! It was also the cover on their third LP, “That’s Not Funny, That’s Sick”.
Hey Yorgii!
If he’s not helping someone, he’s helping someone else!
And the obligatory Midnight Oil protest song.
I should have said 2nd paragraph
Hey Yorgii, Uzbeks drank my battery fluid.
Maybe that is where they need to send them then. Of course in 30 years they will need to get rid of the coyotes.
It's probably apocryphal but I've heard people say that cats were thought of as demonic and killed in large numbers before the plague killed half of the western world.
"Hey, you think you can send a few of those cats my way?"
Stealing that :)
Well, I stole it from FlJoePa!
Dingos only eat babies.
I'll take feral cats over Third World pushcart vendors and bomb belt wearers any day.
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