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Should cats be eradicated from Australia? |
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stui magpie
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Joined: 03 May 2005 Location: In flagrante delicto
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I put this poll on Facebook, with surprising results so far, so I thought I'd try it here as a comparison.
Cats are responsible for killing small reptiles, birds and native mammals. For every responsible cat owner who de sexes their cat and keeps it indoors, there are 99 who don't. feral and domestic cats are a massive problem. See link below
To eradicate cats means that existing pets must be desexed, any strays caught are destroyed, breeders are closed down and stock all desexed and a bounty put on feral/stray cats.
Those people who desperately desire the company of a cat, could purchase a desexed one from over seas, but other than that, Australia would be cat free.
Yes or no.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-04/cats-killing-one-million-birds-in-australia-every-day-estimates/9013960 _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
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HAL
Please don't shout at me - I can't help it.
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Cats are very independent. |
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Mugwump
Joined: 28 Jul 2007 Location: Between London and Melbourne
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Desexed, bell collar. Otherwise impounded and destroyed. Problem solved.
They are serial killers with pretty faces. _________________ Two more flags before I die! |
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David
I dare you to try
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Nope. What’s the point of existence without cats?
Having said that, if Australia can relax its quarantine restrictions on capybaras, I might reconsider. _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace |
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stui magpie
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Mugwump wrote: | Desexed, bell collar. Otherwise impounded and destroyed. Problem solved. |
but as long as we have breeding stock and you can buy unsterilised ones, the problem remains
Quote: | They are serial killers with pretty faces. |
Cats have probably done more environmental damage in Australia than any other introduced species, inc foxes, cane toads and rabbits, other than humans. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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stui magpie
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David wrote: | Nope. What’s the point of existence without cats? |
I don't get the attraction. I've managed to get by OK without them so far
Quote: | Having said that, if Australia can relax its quarantine restrictions on capybaras, I might reconsider. |
They're apparently quite tasty. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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Mugwump
Joined: 28 Jul 2007 Location: Between London and Melbourne
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stui magpie wrote: | Mugwump wrote: | Desexed, bell collar. Otherwise impounded and destroyed. Problem solved. |
but as long as we have breeding stock and you can buy unsterilised ones, the problem remains
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We own a cat (not my choice, a price I must pay for living with females in the house) and my experience is that if you equip the animal with a bell collar, they’re pretty hopeless at catching things unless the victim is already wounded. They work on speed and surprise. I mean the cat here, not the females in my house. I think.
I don’t disagree with restricting purchases to desexed animals and keeping breeding cats on licensed terms. They are a menace to native wildlife. _________________ Two more flags before I die! |
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stui magpie
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A brick would work better than a bell, but regardless you provide another reason I'm glad to remain single. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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Woods Of Ypres
Joined: 27 May 2003 Location: Yugoslavia
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my cat has one of those bell collars and still kills the same amount of birds. she just waits and pounces. |
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HAL
Please don't shout at me - I can't help it.
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They have a mind of their own. |
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K
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Are claws important in the context of their killing?
I looked up declawing on the internet and learnt that apparently it's regarded as cruelty and banned in some (many?) countries. The claim is it's more like amputating a digit than just clipping your nails. |
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think positive
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Declawing, debarking, tail docking, only $£$%^%%$ humans would do that shit.
How about follow the rules, keep them inside or have a cat run? They eat the occasional bird? Ah well the rules of the jungle. I said to our first poodle one day, dream on, you’ll never catch one, got home to find a warm bird under my pillow! I kid you not! Smart buggers poodles!
Maybe we could desex, declaw, take out the frontal lobe on nasty minded humans, seems fair!
There should certainly be controls in place to keep the population to a reasonable level. I’m not a cat person AT ALL, but I’d never hurt one.
Remember not so long ago you’d see dogs roaming the streets all the time, stricter regulations and fines mean its pretty rare now. Can’t see why it can’t be the same with cats. _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
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K
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think positive wrote: | ... They eat the occasional bird? Ah well the rules of the jungle. ... |
If the rules of the jungle apply, then everyone should be happy if a dog kills a cat. And I don't think the cats actually eat the birds. They just kill for the pleasure of killing. Do they eat the mice they catch?
Oh, and it's not occasional, either... Apparently it's literally hundreds of thousands of birds per year in the US. |
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Mugwump
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Woods Of Ypres wrote: | my cat has one of those bell collars and still kills the same amount of birds. she just waits and pounces. |
Perhaps ours is a bit thick. It’s hard to tell with cats, they have such tiny brains. Never own anything with a brain cavity the size of a broad bean. _________________ Two more flags before I die! |
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stui magpie
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