Frizzle Fry
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I guess we're running out of things to kill in Wisconsin...(sigh)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7130397/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7130397/
Cat owners will find this unsettling
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Final Design Studios
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hmmm, nothing beats wisconsin cat killers. They got nine lives, whats the big deal?
I wonder what you would do with your cat after you killed it?
I wonder what you would do with your cat after you killed it?
HorseFilms
Look ma no hands
I heard about that on the radio about a week ago. People are extremely weird. If this goes through, I think it should be extended to annoying children as well.:evil:
Jim Brennan
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Wouldn't that pretty much wipe out the species?
Frizzle Fry
Well-known member
It's basically a re-classification for loose cats to be considered "feral," and therefore legal to shoot. They tend to eat songbirds, and generally reproduce unchecked. Some say all this talk is merely a ploy to encourage responsible pet ownership. Anyway, thought you all might find it interesting.
It's kind of a Swiftian notion, shoot the cats to cut down on the populations. Jonathan Swift satirically wrote about eating children to cut down on population growth.
Be a lot easier if all those catlovers trapped those feral cats, took em in and gave em homes. I'm not advocating shooting cats, but there's nothing more annoying than being woken up at 4am by two cats screwing.
Be a lot easier if all those catlovers trapped those feral cats, took em in and gave em homes. I'm not advocating shooting cats, but there's nothing more annoying than being woken up at 4am by two cats screwing.
XCheck
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Might be your "porn from a woman's perspective" :grin:Isaac_Brody said:
Now seriously - here is a story I learned last fall while shooting a documentary back in Czech Republic:
My great-grandfather served a term as a mayor of one of the larger cities in Czechoslovakia in the early 1920s. During that time, an epidemic of rabies broke out in the city. My poor great-grandpa, a cat lover, was forced to sign a city council by-law by which all cats were exterminated as to avoid further spread of the disease.
I couldn't read the original link at the top of this thread (something to do with firewalls and stuff). It must be awful to kill a cat.
Rabbit, on the other hand... yummy!
Sirius_Doggy
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hummm....wabbit.........
Final Design Studios
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Dogs Rule! I'm not much of a cat person anyway.
Frizzle Fry
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Here ya go, Jerry:
Open season on cats in Wisconsin?
Proposal would allow hunters to shoot feral felines
A proposal that would allow hunters in Wisconsin to shoot and kill feral cats is causing, well, a hissy fit.
“It’s entirely cruel behavior to have an open season on cats. Just because a cat doesn’t have a collar doesn’t mean a cat has no owners,” said Jessica Frohman, community outreach and policy coordinator for Alley Cat Allies, a group which espouses no-kill methods of controlling wild felines.
Opposition is coming in “from all over the country ... surprise, shock, horror,” added Adam Bauknecht who along with others has put up a Wisconsin-based Web site calling attention to the issue.
The site — http://www.dontshootthecat.com/ — drew 35,000 hits on Monday alone and has received more than 800 e-mails since it was activated three days ago, Bauknecht told Reuters on Tuesday.
At issue is an advisory question that is among dozens to be aired in public debate next month at wildlife-related meetings in all of Wisconsin’s counties.
The Wisconsin Conservation Congress which conducts the sessions uses them to give advice to state regulators on such weighty matters as changing the date for applying for a bear hunting license to banning electronic decoys in turkey hunting.
An 'unprotected species'
The cat proposal, simply put, would reclassify free roaming, domestic feral cats as an “unprotected species” that could then be shot by anyone with a license to hunt small game. The rationale is that wild cats prey on songbirds in disproportionate numbers.
Not so, says Frohman of the Maryland-based Alley Cat group. Man is a far worse predator, she said, with skyscrapers and other man-made structures killing countless migrating wild birds in collisions each year.
The true solution to the country’s millions of feral city and country cats, she said, is to trap them, have them spayed or neutered and then released back into the wild. Killing them, she said, only causes colonies of existing cats to expand in size to take up the territory of those that have been eliminated.
Bauknecht, who works at MadCat Pet Supplies in Madison, Wis., said the chances are very slim that the cat proposal would ever be adopted by the state’s Department of Natural Resources, even if it gets backing from citizens attending the meetings in April.
“But we’re not taking any chances,” he said.”When this is resolved we’re going to pursue trying to build a statewide network for cat spaying trap-and-releases. We want to use this as a jumping off point.
The cat hunting proposal had its origin with Mark Smith of La Crosse, Wis., who could not be reached for comment. He said in an interview published in the La Crosse Tribune recently that he was not anti-feline but “If you open the door and kick your cat out at night you’ve changed its status.”
Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters.
Open season on cats in Wisconsin?
Proposal would allow hunters to shoot feral felines
A proposal that would allow hunters in Wisconsin to shoot and kill feral cats is causing, well, a hissy fit.
“It’s entirely cruel behavior to have an open season on cats. Just because a cat doesn’t have a collar doesn’t mean a cat has no owners,” said Jessica Frohman, community outreach and policy coordinator for Alley Cat Allies, a group which espouses no-kill methods of controlling wild felines.
Opposition is coming in “from all over the country ... surprise, shock, horror,” added Adam Bauknecht who along with others has put up a Wisconsin-based Web site calling attention to the issue.
The site — http://www.dontshootthecat.com/ — drew 35,000 hits on Monday alone and has received more than 800 e-mails since it was activated three days ago, Bauknecht told Reuters on Tuesday.
At issue is an advisory question that is among dozens to be aired in public debate next month at wildlife-related meetings in all of Wisconsin’s counties.
The Wisconsin Conservation Congress which conducts the sessions uses them to give advice to state regulators on such weighty matters as changing the date for applying for a bear hunting license to banning electronic decoys in turkey hunting.
An 'unprotected species'
The cat proposal, simply put, would reclassify free roaming, domestic feral cats as an “unprotected species” that could then be shot by anyone with a license to hunt small game. The rationale is that wild cats prey on songbirds in disproportionate numbers.
Not so, says Frohman of the Maryland-based Alley Cat group. Man is a far worse predator, she said, with skyscrapers and other man-made structures killing countless migrating wild birds in collisions each year.
The true solution to the country’s millions of feral city and country cats, she said, is to trap them, have them spayed or neutered and then released back into the wild. Killing them, she said, only causes colonies of existing cats to expand in size to take up the territory of those that have been eliminated.
Bauknecht, who works at MadCat Pet Supplies in Madison, Wis., said the chances are very slim that the cat proposal would ever be adopted by the state’s Department of Natural Resources, even if it gets backing from citizens attending the meetings in April.
“But we’re not taking any chances,” he said.”When this is resolved we’re going to pursue trying to build a statewide network for cat spaying trap-and-releases. We want to use this as a jumping off point.
The cat hunting proposal had its origin with Mark Smith of La Crosse, Wis., who could not be reached for comment. He said in an interview published in the La Crosse Tribune recently that he was not anti-feline but “If you open the door and kick your cat out at night you’ve changed its status.”
Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters.
XCheck
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WOW. Reminds me of a thread from some time ago 'Kitty's gonna get you'.
I think this needs a little perspective. I can relate to people being concerned about diminishing native species, but: Seriously, any place that we would like to stay with native species only, should start at the top (of the food chain): remove humans, everything else will follow.
I have two cats, both born to outside-going mothers. If you have cats, you know what I am talking about - good luck trying to keep them inside! Id' rather have a harem of ten nagging witches as wifes than listen to my cats wanting to get out! And no, they don't go out to 'do their thing'.
That said, I know my cats occasionally kill a song bird. But for every bird they kill, they bring ten mice to the backyard door. Now I don't know if mice are protected or unprotected in Wisconsin, but it sure beats spraying the lawns and parkland with pesticide and laying rodent poison which kills everything but the rodents.
Looks like I am going to e-mail them with my view. Thanks for the link, HortonPounder.
I think this needs a little perspective. I can relate to people being concerned about diminishing native species, but: Seriously, any place that we would like to stay with native species only, should start at the top (of the food chain): remove humans, everything else will follow.
I have two cats, both born to outside-going mothers. If you have cats, you know what I am talking about - good luck trying to keep them inside! Id' rather have a harem of ten nagging witches as wifes than listen to my cats wanting to get out! And no, they don't go out to 'do their thing'.
That said, I know my cats occasionally kill a song bird. But for every bird they kill, they bring ten mice to the backyard door. Now I don't know if mice are protected or unprotected in Wisconsin, but it sure beats spraying the lawns and parkland with pesticide and laying rodent poison which kills everything but the rodents.
Looks like I am going to e-mail them with my view. Thanks for the link, HortonPounder.
Humans created the house cat, humans have abused the house cat and now humans blame the house cat for everything from loud sex to chicken hunting. Same old story...Cats, dogs all pay the price for our negligence and stupidity!
There's a bunch of feral teenagers who hang out and have loud sex down by the corner Esso station....Can we have open season on them too?
There's a bunch of feral teenagers who hang out and have loud sex down by the corner Esso station....Can we have open season on them too?
Pretty much normal on the Mornington Peninsula in Australia.
Under State Government legislation all cats over the age of three months must be registered with Council.
Council has made a Shire wide Order which requires all cats to be contained within the owner’s property at all times. This Order has been made to facilitate the resolution of persistent problems associated with stray and feral cats.
Council encourages responsible cat ownership and owners should ensure that their cat(s) are registered and confined to their properties at all times.
To register your cat, come into any of the Shire Customer Service Offices (you will need to bring with you personal ID, and proof of desexing, microchipping etc).
24 hour cat curfew - Keep Your Cat Safe .......At Home
Under State Government legislation all cats over the age of three months must be registered with Council.
Council has made a Shire wide Order which requires all cats to be contained within the owner’s property at all times. This Order has been made to facilitate the resolution of persistent problems associated with stray and feral cats.
Council encourages responsible cat ownership and owners should ensure that their cat(s) are registered and confined to their properties at all times.
To register your cat, come into any of the Shire Customer Service Offices (you will need to bring with you personal ID, and proof of desexing, microchipping etc).
24 hour cat curfew - Keep Your Cat Safe .......At Home
Frizzle Fry
Well-known member
My co-worker shared a story about his brother. Seems there was a pretty, white cat that was snacking on the songbirds in his back yard. Well, he knew it was someone's pet because it had a collar. So he went out, called the cat over, and spray painted a big blue line down its back. He never saw the cat again.
Btw, don't take my posting of this subject as my condoning the dispatching of so-called feral cats. I surely could never -- and would never want to -- kill any kitties. Let local animal control do our dirty work, if it's absolutely necessary. (think of wild rabid dogs, for example)
In the end, it's the same as the kids today. Who's to blame for their behavior but the parents?
But if the proposal is adopted, maybe you'll all see a cat hunting show shot on DVX! No, no, no, I'm just kidding, I don't mean that at all.
Btw, don't take my posting of this subject as my condoning the dispatching of so-called feral cats. I surely could never -- and would never want to -- kill any kitties. Let local animal control do our dirty work, if it's absolutely necessary. (think of wild rabid dogs, for example)
In the end, it's the same as the kids today. Who's to blame for their behavior but the parents?
But if the proposal is adopted, maybe you'll all see a cat hunting show shot on DVX! No, no, no, I'm just kidding, I don't mean that at all.
This is the way it is on the Mornington Peninsula in Australia,
Under State Government legislation all cats over the age of three months must be registered with Council.
Council has made a Shire wide Order which requires all cats to be contained within the owner’s property at all times. This Order has been made to facilitate the resolution of persistent problems associated with stray and feral cats.
Council encourages responsible cat ownership and owners should ensure that their cat(s) are registered and confined to their properties at all times.
To register your cat, come into any of the Shire Customer Service Offices (you will need to bring with you personal ID, and proof of desexing, microchipping etc).
24 hour cat curfew - Keep Your Cat Safe .......At Home
So it is normal for hunters to shoot any cat that is loose! I don't agree with it, but it does promote better pet care.(I tried to delete one of these & they both went) ????
Under State Government legislation all cats over the age of three months must be registered with Council.
Council has made a Shire wide Order which requires all cats to be contained within the owner’s property at all times. This Order has been made to facilitate the resolution of persistent problems associated with stray and feral cats.
Council encourages responsible cat ownership and owners should ensure that their cat(s) are registered and confined to their properties at all times.
To register your cat, come into any of the Shire Customer Service Offices (you will need to bring with you personal ID, and proof of desexing, microchipping etc).
24 hour cat curfew - Keep Your Cat Safe .......At Home
So it is normal for hunters to shoot any cat that is loose! I don't agree with it, but it does promote better pet care.(I tried to delete one of these & they both went) ????
This thread reminded me a video I saw awhile ago. All you cat lovers will probably want to skip this one.
http://media.ebaumsworld.com/catfan.wmv
http://media.ebaumsworld.com/catfan.wmv
ChuckS
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The cat strikes back.
Wouldn't you love to shoot one of these assholes...
http://www.daframegallery.com/cat
Wouldn't you love to shoot one of these assholes...
http://www.daframegallery.com/cat