Bickering environmentalists. What a lovely sight.
Call me insensitive, but I don't see it as a problem. It's Nature.
They need to release a mating pair of coyotes to go after the feral cats. Here in Johnson County, in fact, in the richest township, Leawood, KS, the coyotes are snatching fluffy from his back yard as a tasty appetizer.
The birds are a native species.
The cats are not.
Seems like a no-brainer to me. Target practice, anyone?
They have half of Fire Island fenced off for the dang piping plover nests.
The birds poop on the beach and leave it.
The cats bury theirs - ergo, let kitty kill the filthy birds.
"But Cedar Beach's 30 or so feral cats..."There's no such thing as a 'Feral Cat'.
But seriesly, the thing I remember about L.I. beaches was the sheer amount of signs everywhere.
"Do this!" "Don't do that!" Everywhere.
Any cat off it’s owner’s lot is feral.
Cat fight!
When the birds start feeding on the mice in my garages and barns, I’ll defend them against the feral cats that inhabit this west Texas property. Also the cats keep the obnoxious European Starlings away. Right now, my vote is for the cats.
Sounds like time for the bird lovers to import some infected cats, then let nature take its course.
Thanks for the posting. =^..^=
Are “homeless people” considered feral humans?
....our family has a beach house at Sunset Beach, NC and there’s a stray cat controversy there also....the cat lovers have set up feeding stations on the island to the dismay of some...they feel the hand outs just make the problem worse....we’ve adopted three cats off the island ourselves but can’t handle any more....they are breeding faster than they can be placed with families....they also get trap wise pretty quick so they’re hard to catch.
People who like cats need to keep the bloody things inside, since you can’t fence them like dogs. Cat owners need to pay for licenses, just like dog owners. The strays need to be trapped and sent to the pound. If they are adopted, great. If not, so be it.
I’ve got a cat. She stays inside, where she can’t destroy the native bird population. She’s spayed, so she’s not spitting out unwanted kittens. When we first moved here, there were bobwhite quail, and turkeys. Then imbeciles built below us, and dragged in 3 cats that ran loose. Flippin’ things reproduced and eliminated all of the grounddwelling game birds in the area within 5 years. Cats target the baby birds that follow their mothers. It’s been 4 plus years since I’ve seen a turkey and 9 years since I’ve even heard a bobwhite. Years ago, I opened my door and there was a flock of 12 or more turkeys in my front yard.
I like cats, but they have their place. We have laws controlling dogs, and we need similar laws to keep cats from decimating game species, not to mention songbirds.
If I didn't think I would be killing some beloved family pet, I'd use a more lethal weapon. But a feral animal? Ready on the right? Ready on the left? Ready on the firing line. Fire at will...or whatever you want to call it.
The cat population is maintained at artificially and unnaturally high levels by humans who feed feral and outside cats, and who get rid of predators that might control the cat population.
The cats are like muggers on welfare living in a city where honest citizens are disarmed.