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Feral cats threaten endangered species
United Press International ^
| 5/2/2003
Posted on 05/02/2003 10:14:27 AM PDT by Willie Green
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To: Frumious Bandersnatch
Coyotes love 'em!
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posted on
05/02/2003 10:25:21 AM PDT
by
Redcloak
(All work and no FReep makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no FReep make s Jack a dul boy. Allwork an)
To: mewzilla
(^..^)//
Very creative! You get an "A".
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posted on
05/02/2003 10:25:34 AM PDT
by
w_over_w
(Hodge podge for $50.00 . . . DING! DING! . . . The Daily Double!)
To: Willie Green
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.
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posted on
05/02/2003 10:25:43 AM PDT
by
ZULU
To: Pan_Yans Wife
If they repeatly showed up in my yard, after the "owner" being requested to keep them under control, they would disappear.
To: doc30
I didn't even think of that! I was thinking for full grown sea bound adults!
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posted on
05/02/2003 10:27:35 AM PDT
by
Calpernia
(www.HelpFeedaChild.com)
To: w_over_w
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!
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posted on
05/02/2003 10:27:54 AM PDT
by
doc30
To: NEWwoman
PETA would feed them tofu.
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posted on
05/02/2003 10:28:28 AM PDT
by
Calpernia
(www.HelpFeedaChild.com)
To: Willie Green
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..
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posted on
05/02/2003 10:29:01 AM PDT
by
hadaclueonce
("shoot low, they are riding shetlands.")
To: Redcloak
And gators. Probably the gator's number 1 food source.
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posted on
05/02/2003 10:29:35 AM PDT
by
Calpernia
(www.HelpFeedaChild.com)
To: ZULU
Maybe more Oriental restaurants are the solutionOr, if we put the blame where it rightly belongs, more cannibalism :)
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posted on
05/02/2003 10:30:01 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
To: rmmcdaniell
excellent point.
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posted on
05/02/2003 10:30:14 AM PDT
by
Blzbba
To: Calpernia
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.
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posted on
05/02/2003 10:31:13 AM PDT
by
NEWwoman
To: ZULU
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".
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posted on
05/02/2003 10:32:48 AM PDT
by
w_over_w
(Hodge podge for $50.00 . . . DING! DING! . . . The Daily Double!)
To: Willie Green
Sounds like we need a national cat-tax.
To: NEWwoman
Is that true? How stupid are these people than? Here is one of the sites PETA promotes: www.vegancats.com
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posted on
05/02/2003 10:33:28 AM PDT
by
Calpernia
(www.HelpFeedaChild.com)
To: Calpernia
Did you not see the commercial of the cat in the dive suit and an oxygen tank on it's back.
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posted on
05/02/2003 10:33:30 AM PDT
by
TonyWojo
To: absinthe
.17 HMR cures them everytime
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posted on
05/02/2003 10:33:38 AM PDT
by
joesnuffy
(Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
To: Calpernia
they eat the baby turtles
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posted on
05/02/2003 10:34:55 AM PDT
by
joesnuffy
(Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
To: ZULU
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).
To: TonyWojo
:( If it wasn't featured on the Disney Channel, Animal Planet or Nickjr...than no.
What did I miss?
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posted on
05/02/2003 10:36:39 AM PDT
by
Calpernia
(www.HelpFeedaChild.com)
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