Feral cats threaten endangered species

United Press International ^ | 5/2/2003

[Redcloak]

Coyotes love 'em!

[w_over_w]

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Very creative! You get an "A".

[ZULU]

People who have cats should never allow them to roam freely.
They wind up getting run over, lost, or shot or they go wild and, as this aticle states, amle a nuisance of themselves by destroying birds, reptiles, amphibians and small mammals.

Maybe more Oriental restaurants are the solution.

[FreedomPoster]

If they repeatly showed up in my yard, after the "owner" being requested to keep them under control, they would disappear.

[Calpernia]

I didn't even think of that! I was thinking for full grown sea bound adults!

[doc30]

Untamed house cat? . . . what the hell is a feral cat?

Feral cats are domestic cats born in the wild and raised in the wild. They tend to have poor human-socialization skills and think like wild animals. I've had experience with friends and, recently, my wife, trying to adopt feral cats. They don't know what a litter box is for and they play very rough (stiches to prove it). They've had virtually no human interaction before adoption and had to develop their "wild" instincts that a human raise house cat never uses.

Cool picture, too!

[Calpernia]

PETA would feed them tofu.

[hadaclueonce]

why do old crazy widow women think they need to put food out for feral cats? It is ramped in my small town. The little ole ladies feed em, and everyone else puts out bowls of antifreeze..

[Calpernia]

And gators. Probably the gator's number 1 food source.

[mewzilla]

Maybe more Oriental restaurants are the solution

Or, if we put the blame where it rightly belongs, more cannibalism :)

[Blzbba]

excellent point.

[NEWwoman]

PETA would feed them tofu.

Hmmmm.... I understand a vegetarian diet makes a cat go blind. So you have the blind leading the blind here.

[w_over_w]

Maybe more Oriental restaurants are the solution.

Actually, they've closed down a few "Ponchos" restaurants in the greater LA area because they found cat meat in the taco mix. Thankfully we've always gone to "El Toritoes".

[Old Professer]

Sounds like we need a national cat-tax.

[Calpernia]

Is that true? How stupid are these people than? Here is one of the sites PETA promotes: www.vegancats.com

[TonyWojo]

Did you not see the commercial of the cat in the dive suit and an oxygen tank on it's back.

[joesnuffy]

.17 HMR cures them everytime

[joesnuffy]

they eat the baby turtles

[GovernmentShrinker]

My cats roam freely. One was hit by a car at age 13, but the rest have lived very long healthy lives. I wouldn't dream of depriving them of the joy of the outdoors. Of course they are all fixed, so they can't go around increasing the cat population.

They don't kill much either -- just unusually slow birds (probably sick already, and only 2-3 a year between 3 cats) and a few mice. My five year old got 3 baby birds his first year, but then got too fat and complacent to catch anything. I feed the birds (and squirrels) by scattering seed in the driveway -- the cats love to watch, and occasionally make half-hearted efforts to give chase, but it's really rare that I find a dead bird in the yard (and only one of my cats -- the fat one -- spends any significant time in neighbors' yards).

[Calpernia]

:( If it wasn't featured on the Disney Channel, Animal Planet or Nickjr...than no.

What did I miss?