Poll: Should it be legal to shoot ferel cats??

That pool is skewed, look at all the liberal environmentalists (aka tree huggers) that read MSNBC.
Doug
 
these people are on drugs!!

They want to start a program to catch and spay/neuter ferrell cats, then release them back into the wild??

absolutely priceless...... I would pay to see that idiot try to handle a ferrell cat (coming out of a trap).

Oh and who is going to pay for that program..... that's right!! The taxpayers will!

That crap wouldn't stand a chance here in Michigan...

Here's an idea: Don't let your cat get loose? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif
 
Not only should it be legal, it should be mandatory. I saw a stint on the tube the other night, and though I didn't want to sit through all the blah, blah, One figure stands out in the brain, Over the entire country an estimated 1,000,000,000 game birds and animals are killed and many more injured by Feral cats alone. How the hell that found that out, I'd like to know. Did they ask the owners of the feral cats /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif? Anyway, I'm declaring open season on them...oh, wait...I never declared it closed /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Any cats I see when I am hunting coyotes or bobcats or any other predator are wearing a special bulls-eye. I do not hunt nearby any homes. The cats become bird-nest material and ant food.
 
If the threat of extermination is in place, and the cat lovers so infact love their cats, they will keep them indoors to eliminate the risk of said extermination.

I do here by and here on, swear and or affirm, that as hazardous a task as it may be, I will endure and accept the duty and hazzards associated with extermination of said ferel cats, as my neighbors/countrymen may allow.

Feed em up good countrymen, I expect a plump and bountyfull harvest.

R. C.
 
Hope this stuff doesn’t bore you guys but I think that cat lovers must be from a different planet…



Quote:
“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.



Typical of these people to have no idea when it comes to defining cruelty, they believe that just the act of killing an animal is cruel regardless of the amount of suffering the animal endures. And they are blinkered when it comes to the damage that their precious cats are causing to the ecosystem that they have invaded. Neutering the cats is not any solution at all. The neutered cat will still live for many years and during that time it will still be killing wild birds, frogs and small reptiles.
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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.



And now they think that because man is destructive in his habits that it somehow mitigates the destructive behaviour of their cuddly cats. If they were to apply logic to their argument they would see that if man is responsible for the death of so many birds (which has to be crap, it isn’t like the buildings jump in front of the birds) then man should balance the books a little and give the birds a break from the cats (which man also introduced to the ecosystem and is also a part of mans destructive behaviours)


And the biggest load of crap in the article
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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.



Just think about it for a moment, if out of say 200 breeding females 50 are shot then it isn’t rocket science to figure that there would be 50 less litters of cats needing feeding next spring. And if the 150 cats left take up the same area that previously supported 200 cats then the hunting pressure on the birds would be reduced by 25%. Sounds like a win for the birds to me.

Here in Australia feral cats are a real problem and all sorts of programs are in place to take care of them.

Here is a town that has cat curfews-

http://www.wyndham.vic.gov.au/residents/animals/168


And a bunch of comments showing the feeling here on cats-

http://www2b.abc.net.au/nature/forum/newposts/0/topic108.shtm
 
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Wow, cats are protected in some states - that sucks.
There is not much love for fluffies, ditch tigers, and porch panthers here in rural Iowa....or so I hear.
Keep adding S's till you hit three, then your doin a good job.
Matt
 
Kill em all! In my almost 40 years of hunting I cannot begin to know how many I have put down. But will continue to do it when ever my crosshairs draw a steady bead on those game killing for no reason S Bee's. I feel better now.
 
Heard that in a town meeting one time where wolves were beoming a problem in No. Minn. A fed biologist recommended "fixing" the wolves instead of killing them. A old farmer stood up and said "Maam you don't understand the problem; they are killing my sheep not scr@wing them."
 
Hey... I LOVE cats!!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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$bob$
 
I guess I'm the wus here. I actually do like our pet cat. We live 30 miles from town with the nearest neighbors 1 1/2 miles away. You can imagine that we have a little mouse problem. Our cat does a great job on them in the house, barn, and outside. I'll agree that truly feral cats are a problem and should be shot, (legal here in Wyoming). I would urge you though to exercise a little judgement while out shooting cats. I also have to wonder if the motive for shooting cats is always for the sake of the birdies, and not just another live target.

By the way our cat usually brings his kills to the back door to show them off. He does bring in a few little birds but for every bird he brings home he probably brings home 20 mice. He has never brought home a game bird. We also bring him in at night so that he doesn't fall prey to any of the assorted predators around.
 
Ruda1, a feral cat and a pet cat are not the same thing. I have a farm cat too, lives here comes in every night, keeps the rats and mice in check. Besdes the wife loves her. she is fixed too. irresposnisble owners are the culprits here, not the control of the problem.
Carl
 
lol...these ppl are nuts! i hope they are reading this thread so they can hear how i treat those SOB cats.

wether i have a pellet gun or my .303 they get shot. i find the 303 does quite a nice job of almost ripping them in 2 pieces. also, my 12gauge with sabot slugs works great for the long range kitties. my best so far is about 175 yards with the 12 gauge and still made him flip!

id say the best is using my 17hmr with my e-caller. call one in and then lip squeak so it looks right at your and peg it right between the eyes.

oh ya...cant forget when i trap them and use the 410 to splatter brains and blood everywhere.

or how bout the time i was hunting coyotes and a cat came in. looked friendly so i lip squeaked and it started walking to me. big mistake buddy. so he is thinking what a nice fellow he is going to pet me. i pet that thing alright. with 12gauge 3 1/2" #4 buck + turkey choke at 10 yards! BAM! then i had 2 cats to pet! lmfao

ive shot 30-40 of those god damned things and only 3-4 turned out to be "house cats". my theory is if they arent in a house they get shot. simple as that.

how ya like that you kitty lovers!?!? learn to keep your varmint in the house so i dont have to waste so much ammo blasting these damn things. but then again, if there in a house i cant put a bullet through there head.

dont forget. this isnt cruel because they die quickly. wild dogs are also lovely targets.

does this make me a redneck because i shoot cats? or would i have to eat one to make me a redneck?

ch312
 
I think it sucks that dogs have licenses, collars, leash laws, pooper-scooper regulations and cats are free to roam, deficate, breed and kill at their discretion. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif

Where's the tree huggin' bunny lovers that made up this crap?

The best way to view a cat is through a rifle scope! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif

Good hunting, Bowhunter57
 
Ruda1-
A lot of people, me included agree with a lot of what you say, but the moment your cat walks onto someone else's land, he becomes an uninvited hunter, and just like my cats, typically never intends to eat the game (songbirds, mice or what have you) it kills.

If I encounter another human uninvited hunter on my land I get pretty interested (and emotionally so)about why they are there without any regard for me, the landowner, killing "my" game that lives on "my" land.

I hope I don't come across as a bigger a$$hole than I really am about trespassers, but I sorta look at dogs and cats that wander in as trespassers too, and as such they(the dogs or cats) are "fair game". I work hard to pay for and take care of 200 acres of nice hunting land, and I feel that I decide who or what can harvest the fruits of my labor. And yes, I am pretty generous in sharing access to invited guests.

Just another opinion, my friend.

BDogger
 
Well I'm not real worried about my cat wandering on someone else land. He's not real likely to travel the 1 1/2 miles to get there.

I'm well aware of the difference between feral and pet cats. I think I mentioned that feral cats should be shot. If my cat is on the land we live on though he has every right to be out cruising around.

Do you intend to eat the coyotes you kill? If my cat wants to kill mice for sport that is great with me. Not only is he then a good pet, but also helps to earn his groceries.

Our cat is fixed also. Which would solve 99% of the problem if more people would do that.

I know there are a lot of people who just dislike cats period. I'd like our pet cat even if he didn't kill mice. But then I'm pretty attached to my dog and horse too.
 
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