Posted on 01/22/2013 7:08:48 AM PST by Biggirl
WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Gareth Morgan has a simple dream: a New Zealand free of pet cats that threaten native birds. But the environmental advocate has triggered a claws-out backlash with his new anti-feline campaign.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Some PETA nuts a couple years back “raided” a reptile shop south of me.
They then dumped the “liberated” reptiles off in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation area.
So for awhile you stood a good chance of finding an iguana, a swift, or a python lazing it out on various vegetation.
Until the first real freeze.
What hits the news isntead?
PETA nuts disrobing for their propaganda.
*sheesh*
Gorgeous girl. Looks like one of my own. (Thought it was her for a second) - but she’s never taken out a rabbit - but has had her fair share of other rodents.
Do you recall their “liberation” of a mink farm?
The “lucky” mink were immediately smashed by cars on the nearby highway.
The others staggered off injured to die slowly and those that missed being hit, starved to death, not ever having learned how to feed themselves.
pETA is the most merciless thing on earth.
Because they’re ectotherms, non-hibernating snakes [such as our native colubrids] die horrible, slow, agonizing deaths from hypothermia.
I loathe pETA.
I wonder if he is for those windmills that chop up birds?
Thank-you for making my day. Go for it. :)=^..^=
I recall that, yes.
The people here who knew of PETA’s “raid” on the reptile shop were all ecstatic over it.
They never once thought it through.
Simple thought actually, “Tropical snake needs tropical heat or it dies. Period.”
Yes, I did intrude that logic into their little feel good fest.
I received a blank stare in return.
I also recall one incidetn a good long time ago where they raided an animal lab and carted monkies out.
The monkies all had such nice infections as llasa fever and dengue.
I don’t recall what came of it.
Miss Cat has harvested even bigger rabbits, close to her own size.
Takes squirrels out of trees, too.
Most times when I become aware of it, the subject matter is past the point of photographic good taste so to speak.
She pretty much runs things around the property.
She is a very serious cat.
Your kitteh looks like my late beloved first kitteh, who taught me everything I needed to know about all things feline and made me a crazy cat lady.
Looking at her made me so very happy and brought back some very happy memories.
Thank you for posting the picture. Please give her a scritch and a cheezeburger for me.
Your kitteh looks like my late beloved first kitteh, who taught me everything I needed to know about all things feline and made me a crazy cat lady.
Looking at her made me so very happy and brought back some very happy memories.
Thank you for posting the picture. Please give her a scritch and a cheezeburger for me.
Will do, when she gets off work and comes in for dinner.
That is a really old picture, so what’s done is done, whatever it was. But I do agree. Every time I see it, I senselessly warn the kitty to back off.
Maybe it's time the kiwi grow a pair and start flying again.......
New kiwi bird motto: "Fly or die!"
How about live trapping some of those feral cats and giving them a new home?
I think they made a movie out of it...:)
As far as reptiles go, you should see *my* house when the electricity goes out in the winter.
Hysterical panic as the propane heaters are placed strategically, the generator is cranked up, etc etc etc.
For my boas and pythons, the -required- ‘hot side temps- are 90-92 degrees with the ‘cool side’ being 81-83 and it *must* be “belly heat”.
A few hours of ~not~ having those optimal temps inclines my snakes to respiratory infections which are very dangerous in reptiles due to their slow metabolisms not responding to injected antibiotics fast enough.
[and we’re not even mentioning the required humidity levels]
Anybody who thinks ‘pitching out their unwanted pet snake’ is ‘returning them to nature’ is a frigging idiot...unless they just happen to live in West Africa or Central/South America.
Recently, somebody found a near-frozen Boa in the north midwest [Michigan or some such] and people freaked out that they were “colonizing”.
Seriously?
Luckily a vet found it and nursed it back to health.
It’s up for adoption, now.
[a local lab had monkeys with ebola get loose..how fun is that?]
Oh, it’s Kizzy, the bunny protector... uh...
She sure is pretty!
She looks as if she’s ready to fight the camera for it. Such a good girl.
“A few hours of ~not~ having those optimal temps “
Brotehr’s ball python got cranky the one year when we moved, the snake had ot be in his bag, and it was freaking cold.
I had the bag in my coat.
Snake dude fussed until he got his bag open and out of my coat pops the snake.
That was fun.
Convincing a cold angry ball python that his best bet is to sit inside his bag inside my coat.
“Recently, somebody found a near-frozen Boa in the north midwest [Michigan or some such] and people freaked out that they were “colonizing”.”
Yeah, gotta love the idiots who don’t bother to remember fifth grade science.
“I just planted catnip a few days ago in the window box. Yeah, I’m a nip pusher.”
My 10-month-old torbie wants to visit your house. She just LOVES her some nip! And now that Mrs. Tweezers has been feeding her a lot of catnip to calm her down while she’s been in heat, that cat is probably good and hooked now.
*And* they bold-faced lie:
I know somebody whose dog was hit by a car after they let it loose from its ex-pen while the owner was showing another dog in the ring.
Other dogs were released from vehicles but thankfully, survived and were caught.
The club now has ‘pETA lookouts’ at all their shows.
Yep.
She has very definite ideas about such things.
You ought to hear her rant about immigration.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.