Study: Kitties kill 500 million birds, should be regulated

washingtonexaminer ^ | 8/6/12 | Paul Bedard

[MagUSNRET]

OK....FIRST: WHO authorized the $$ for this stupid arse study?

2: What blithering idiot does not recognize an animal searching for FOOD!? They do not kill for the fun of it!

3. Are the same people with their knickers in a twist about cats killing birds, the SAME ones that are OK with abortion????

They are damned IDIOTS asnd the worse IDIOTA S are those that ALLOW these horsechit “studies” to go on.

I rest my case

[ColdOne]

LOL!

[Marie]

LMAO!! I wish I could ‘like’ a post here! lol!

[mardi59]

Burrrp! That last liberal just hit the spot.

[wbill]

Liberals: “...But we can regulate cats from hunting prey.”

Classic. When I was a kid, we lived on a river. Our cat used to leave a trail of dead river rats behind him when he went hunting. I didn't see anyone complain. "Better dead down there, than live and in my house", approximately, was the opinion.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

LOL, what a great article. This whole country is nuts.

[cripplecreek]

What woodchuck?

[Slings and Arrows]

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[stormer]

Two issues: Domestic and feral cats are not native to the Americas; pet cats are generally well fed - they hunt instinctually and don’t consume their prey. Nothing natural about it.

[Buckeye McFrog]

next up, a series of tax credits for Chinese restaurants

[Bon mots]

They also spread toxoplasmosis

[workerbee]

[nomodem]

I got Jack Russells and we support blaming the cats.

Ditto - me and my Min Pins !!!

[Sir Napsalot]

Of course they are (re: windmills). Nobody ever says they are logical. But they FEEL.

[rockinqsranch]

This is what happens when drugs are involved with impaired, Liberal minds. The drugs accentuate their impairment, and make everything exaggerated.

My studied, and extremely humble opinion :)

[CatherineofAragon]

So what’s next? Re-education camps for cats? Sensitivity training, instructions on tolerance toward birds and other small animals?

Cats, big and small, are nature’s perfect killers. Dey iz skilled at teh art. Not much to be done about that.

[CatherineofAragon]

So what’s next? Re-education camps for cats? Sensitivity training, instructions on tolerance toward birds and other small animals?

Cats, big and small, are nature’s perfect killers. Dey iz skilled at teh art. Not much to be done about that.

[DannyTN]

Top Ways to regulate Cats:

• Make Cats report their kills each week.
• Make Cats redistribute their kills each week.
• Make Cats buy an annual kill license.
• Make Cats wait 7 days for a kill license.
• Make Cats attend mandatory classes.
• Desegregate Cats and Birds
• Mice under 500 grams must be thrown back.
• Birds under 1 oz must be thrown back.
• Limit of 2 kills per week.
• Implement cat 1 child policy.
• Import more Asian restaurants.

[Kriggerel]

Jeez, not this again...

I’ve never understood just why it is that the “experts” who put forth this particular argument don’t take the time to consider that small cats exist to fulfill a certain ecological niche?

Maybe, just maybe, before domestic cats were brought to North America, bobcats were eating just as many of those poor little birdies and micies? I’ve always maintained that in populated areas, domestic cats have merely filled the bobcat’s ecological niche.

I also believe that if we were indeed to eliminate domestic cats (as some of the more radical proponents of this particular argument have proposed), we’d simply see more bobcats moving into populated areas. Nature abhors a vacuum.

And the only reason we don’t keep bobcats as pets is that as they mature, they’re easily ten times the sprayers that domestics are, and even neuter/spay doesn’t stop them from doing it.

[CatherineofAragon]

Sorry bout that....new laptop, VERY sensitive touchpad.