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Posted on 09/01/2007 4:06:24 PM PDT by shrinkermd
This month, a jury may decide if the 54-year-old founder of the Galveston Ornithological Society was acting within his rights when he impeded the progress of a bird-stalking predator by means of a bullet. Mr. Stevenson is due to stand trial for felony cat murder.
"There are people with the wrong perception of this," he said in his Chevy compact on a stormy morning, driving along a wide beach at Galveston Island's western tip, where curlews, egrets, stilts and herons strut in the tide pools. He stopped at the pilings beneath the San Luis Pass bridge: the scene of the crime.
"They see it as a choice," said Mr. Stevenson. "Does Jim shoot the cat or not shoot the cat?" A kitten poked its head out from behind a boulder. Bigger cats streaked away. "But that's not the choice," he said. "It's a choice of who dies, the cat or the bird. By acting or not acting, I had to choose who dies."
So Mr. Stevenson made his choice, and let fly his bird-watcher's fury at the national plague of feral cats. The American Bird Conservancy numbers kitties-gone-wild at close to 100 million, and claims they kill hundreds of millions of birds. It wants more wild cats euthanized and all house cats kept in the house
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Well who should die?
The asshole who shot the cat, of course. After all, the bird "might" have gotten away.
But I guess they don't give folks "the chair" in Texas for such.
Cats eat birds. So do we every Thanksgiving, you dumb f***.
Get over it.
The nuts are in charge of the insane assilum.
I guess they don’t have enough sea gulls in Galveston these days.
23 and counting
I can't imagine anyone complaining of a shortage of damned sea gulls.
Or Canada geese, either, for that matter.
Cat the other white meat
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As I type, my cats Carpe and Diem are curled up at my feet. Should anyone harm them, I would commit grave bodily injury on the offender.
That having been said however, I think the individual charged in this should have been released with a mere advisory to nor shoot toward the houses. Feral cats multiply like crazy where there is an adequate food supply...until their prolific progeny overwhelm the local resources.
In my youth, I was occasionally called upon to assist my cousin in “thinning the herd” of cats at their ranch near League City. Pretty challenging hunting; after the first ten or so kills the rest of them get pretty spooked. Nailing a tabby at full run for the brush is tougher than whitetail deer or feral hog.
Hang in there....It’s just a matter of time.
He may be our first.
That settles the ownership issue as far as I'm concerned.
I think Steve Erwin made a comment on one his shows one about the Australian army being called in to deal with feral cats in some areas,so bad was the damage being done to endangered species by feral cats.
On that morning, as he tells it, it only took a minute for him to spot the limping cat under the bridge. He rolled down his van window part way, rested the rifle barrel on the edge of the glass, and squeezed off a shot. "That cat dropped like a rock," says Mr. Stevenson, who then heard a "spewing of profane language" from up on the bridge.People who are sure that they are doing the right thing don't flee after taking their action. The schlub was just picking off cats, any cats. He wasn't concerned if they were feral or not.It was the toll taker, John Newland. Mr. Newland, who is 69 and a former real-estate broker, picks up the story: "I ran out and hollered," he says. And while another toll taker called the cops, "that idiot took off. I said, 'I'm gonna get him. So I jumped into my truck and ran him down all the way to Jamaica Beach." Which is where Mr. Stevenson was met by four police cars.
People who feed feral cats should be arrested. If you want to make sure a feral cat is going to be okay, TAKE IT HOME AND KEEP IT THERE.
Bird lover VS. Cat Lover.
I’m a cat lover but I vote not guilty.[But he should have used an air rifle]
I went flounder fishing at San Luis Pass many times when I lived in Houston.
There are no houses at San Luis Pass. All the cats there are feral. Galveston beach is full of feral cats, for that matter.
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It wasn't in a house therefore it wasn't a house cat therefore it was a feral cat. Responsible pet owners keep their pets on their property.
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