In WI, if you are on private land w/o permission, you are guilty of tresspassing; signs are not required.
Plus there's children in the woods playing. This isn't November deer season where people are wearing hunter orange.
You as a hunter are to be sure of your target, cats or not. There are several hunting seasons that do not require any blaze orange be worn, and yet children playing in the woods are almost never shot.
And feral cats can hang around domestic structures. Bullets flying through the kitchen window isn't appealing to me.
And again, this is already addressed in state laws as to distance from dwellings to discharge any firearm.
can see armed confrontations between private property owners and hunters tracking the family cat. Again, tresspassing is against the law already.
Hunters in Wisconsin already have a difficult time finding private land to hunt on.
This has more to do with ant-hunters living in rural areas, than it does with anything else.
Just say you don't want cats shot, don't give a bunch of mis-information for your position.
Allow me to buy you a clue:
Hunters trespass on land, regardless of signs or no signs. And no, I don't patrol my property 24/7 to catch people who abuse the land. Neither does the sheriff.
The bodies of dead people fill pages, shot by hunters who are "sure" of their targets.
Ditto for damage to fruit trees, fences, houses and buildings.
Hunting cats will multiply these problems.
Now let's see your proof that more anti-hunters post their land than hunters. And 80 by 100 ft yuppie lots don't count.