JG is a HUGE supporter of RESPONSIBLE cat ownership, and you condemn him for irresponsible pet owners? This includes keeping cats indoors, unless on a leash.
That .22 and a boy thing you seem to like, do you also propose that all responsible gun owners be punished due to irresponsible owners and criminals?
Wake up.
Mark
Before you can adopt a cat from a shelter out here, you must sign a paper promising to keep the cat indoors or be fined if the now-microchipped kitty is picked up-the top predators out here are the resident mountain lions and feral hogs, then raccoons, coyotes...
One of the few good things about this awful economy that destroyed the tourist/snowbird industry here-the population of obviously abandoned pet cats and dogs has decreased drastically, according to our local shelters-we have a neuter and release program, but that takes in feral cats that are not put up for adoption, not the obviously abandoned pets-they end up placed in new homes.
I was posting because I was pointing out some of the many reasons I am not pleased with “CatPersons” who are responsibility deficient. Having been forced to shoot such cats, and not liking to so do (we raised Siamese cats when I was younger), was the reason for the rant.
As in all civilized discussions, present company is always excepted.
Having been forced by the irresponsible, to shoot such cats, and often a number of them, I have concluded the following:
1. When numerous cats show up suddenly, some cat group did the dumping.
2. Cats become paranoid FAST when dumped.
3. Attempts to capture such cats is too much risk.
4. Best method I know of is a can of sardines, then a carefully placed shotgun pattern.
#4 above will result in multiple shot entering the cranial vault and immediate loss of consciousness. IMHO, anything other than a brain shot inflicts avoidable suffering.
Even a cat deserves a last meal and a painless death. Why “even a cat”?
Ever watched a cat deliberately prolonging its killing of an animal it got a claw into?