Posted on 07/17/2015 1:41:18 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
The Australian government announced plans to cull up to 2 million feral cats by 2020 in a bid to preserve dozens of native species that authorities claim face extinction because of the cats' predatory behavior.
Speaking to a national radio station, Gregory Andrews, the country's first threatened-species Commissioner, said Australian Environment Minister Greg Hunt "is declaring war on feral cats, and he's asked me to take charge of that program."
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Cats are efficient killing machines.
They’re just cool that way.
That they are.
I am not against this per se. I can see what is is they have to do. What I am against is sick people who take joy in this. I even see them on FR.
One can view it as a necessary thing, but taking joy in simply killing for the sake of it is an indicator of deep psychological problems, in my opinion.
It isn’t apocryphal, it is true.
Of course, having owned and watched cats, I can see where superstition can combine with ignorance and you end up with a woman on one side of a scale, a duck on the other side, and a carrot on her nose.
Or a cat on a pike.
getting rid of ferals......hmmm
I can’t read this. No kill kitties. No. Say it ain’t so slings
That cat is a copy of mine. An “Orange Long Cat” I call him.
He knocks stuff of the coffee tables all the time with that dang tail.
I vote no to this...I’m against it. Cats are super efficient, effective varmint controllers.....and Australia will soon afterwards have a major rodent problem...
Maybe they can sew little pouches on them and then they’ll be cute little “Aussie Rats”, or give them one of their unique little names that they give certain animals.
Still do - it's less of a problem since certain methods of biological control began to be used, but Australia still has a massive rabbit problem.
I remember watching a movie called, ‘Rabbit-Proof Fence’ and it was about the re-location of their native people to ‘water-down’ their population and how one girl kept escaping wherever they relocated her to, to get back to her tribe. I mean, she walked THOUSANDS of miles of that fence line to do it, too!
Rabbit-Proof Fence is a wonderful movie 'based on a true story' but also with a huge amount of left wing added fiction - including the idea that these children were removed in large numbers for reasons like watering down the population. There were genuine problems with what Australia used to do to its indigenous people, but it's been terribly exaggerated and misrepresented as well. The girls shown in Rabbit Proof Fence were actually taken into care with the cooperation of senior members of the community they were living in, because they were reaching an age where they were at risk of sexual molestation (including from some white men, because as they were half-white, there were men out there who would have regarded them as a good catch without protection). The primary intention was to protect these girls from genuine harm, and in particular, the film unfairly maligns, A.O. Neville who was the 'protector of Aborigines' in Western Australia, and who took that duty seriously. The historical documents show he was frantic to find the girls when they went missing because he believed they were in serious danger, and he was responsible for them. But the film makes him out to be some sort of racist monster.
His own words:
So few of our own people as a whole are aware of the position of Aborigine. Yet we have had the coloured man amongst us for a hundred years or more. He has died in his hundreds, nay thousands, in pain, misery and squalor, and through avoidable ill-health. Innumerable little children have perished through neglect and ignorance. The position, in some vital respects, is not much better today than it was fifty years ago. Man is entitled to a measure of happiness in his life. Yet most of these people have never known real happiness. Some are never likely to know it. The causes of their condition are many. Mainly it is not their fault, it is ours, just as it lies with us to put the matter right.
But the fence itself is real:
Number 1 Fence is 1,139 miles long. All three fences total over 2000 miles.
Rabbits cause over half a billion dollars damage to the Australian economy next year. I haven't see the figures for feral cats, but their impact will be on a similar scale. Maybe 0bama is right about Colonialism? Except now it’s all about cats! ;) http://www.myplace.edu.au/verve/_resources/Rabbit_proof_fence_in_western_australia.jpg
Yeah,...it’ll be a joyful season, a real festival for cat haters.
Agreed....I’ve had to set live traps and also crawl underneath my home in the past to extract litters of feral cats. I won’t say what the grounds crew does when the come across them....Good thing I have an old pair of sleeve length welding gloves. Animal control was very concerned whether or not I had been scratched or bitten (no way).
Little old ladies in the neighborhood let their cats out at night to roam - even though the rules in this subdivision say no cats or dogs....
Cat gut is produced by silk worms....not cats
It’s not just cats. Dogs are much worse. When I lived in the California coastal mountains, idiots from the cities would drive out and dump cute Fido out in the bush. I guess these liberal, big city California clowns thought that dog food grows on trees. Fluffy would pack with other dumped mutts and create feral packs, killing everything in sight.
I didn’t dare walk around without a revolver strapped to my hip and a shotgun slung over my shoulder. These mutts were vicious and would take down deer and even threaten people.
I was able to rescue one dog from a feral pack and turned him over to the local animal shelter.
The dingo is nearly extinct in Oz......
For some reason, the caption didn’t print…:(
“You fools, your barbaric plan is destinied for failure! We will reproduce far faster than you can eliminate us!”
Of course, I don’t believe that . Humans are pretty good at eradicating things when they cross us.
But that picture always makes me laugh anyway…
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When I lived in SoCal (San Diego, Pomona) I’d take weekend trips into the San Gabriel wilderness areas and upon the recommendation of a friend would carry a pistol with me for just such reasons. I’d had “run-ins” with big cats up in the Santa Lucia range a decade earlier, and bears and didn’t want to take chances with dogs. He said I had more to fear from two-legged animals than four. Used to come across people living out there miles away from anything and a good day’s walk to the closest road. Funny, a friend of mine lives right off the Appalachian trail in western Maryland and he’s put down a handful of emaciated, matted, feral dogs over the years. People take their dogs out, let them go off the leash and they never come back. It’s a dog thing, call of the wild.
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