*gets out the ol' skinnin' blade*Originally Posted by Ratiasu
I live in Illinois. Wisconson is my neighbor and they are making this LEGAL?! I mean, look at what this country is turning into. Soon, they are going to make skinning cats legal.
I can't wait for that day.
I don't like that idea.....
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Actually, by my logic, you'd be completely right. Humans are more detremental to other species than any other living thing. We are also over-running the entire planet. But hey, we're getting on the whole hunting humans things. Just let America stew for a bit longer.DEAR GOD THERE HAS GOT TO BE A WAY TO STOP THIS. THIS SHOULDN'T HAPPEN.
Idiot: "Hey look, a stray cat!"*Shoots*
Me: "Hey look, a person that needs to get help!"*Shoots*
I live in Illinois. Wisconson is my neighbor and they are making this LEGAL?! I mean, look at what this country is turning into. Soon, they are going to make skinning cats legal.
(I was mostly joking, not all Americans are trigger-happy, I know.)
And what if those bugs were beneficial to another species of animal, an environmental cycle, the survival of another species of higher-end animals, to a local plant or crop, or could prove to beneficial in the future? (yes, I know, I'm a pain in the ass.)
Heh, yeah, I can't wait until I can stuff and mount a trophy 15lb Persian that I bagged on a rivetting hunt.I can't think of a horribly ugly animal... Well, I guess Pug dogs are horribly ugly, but they're so ugly they totally go around the spectrum and become cute again. I'm pretty much against the killing of animals for a reason such as this. I'm not too into the idea of killing animals for food either, but I think meat is delicious so I have no grounds to complain there. This just seems totally wrong to me because it just seems like an excuse so that people have another thing they can legally kill.I don't think (at least I hope) that people don't actually want to hunt tiny, feral cats.
But seriously, you've got a good point there. As I said before, what was I thinking saying the cats are the problem, it's obviously that humans are the real and original problem. (I'm not being sarcastic.)
That's how many birds they have killed. All those cats do have to eat regurlarly. I can't really say how high the numbers are for sure, or if those are way too high, but it's still a fact that they would be killing a lot of birds.I also don't like the grounds that this is being based on, I think the study is completely bogus.7.8 million to 217 million... Yeah, really respectable.
How about this for an ugly animal: big, nasty sewer rats? Larger than most cats, and ugly as sin. Get them in a pack, and they'll bring down almost anything that is meat. Get them hungry enough, and THAT includes humans.
If those were overpopulating, and came up from the sewers to eat your pets, wouldn't you be for killing as many of them as you could? There'd be a wide-spread moral outrage that we haven't driven the rats into extinction for the purpose of "sanitation". Yes, being cute makes them more lovable, but it doesn't mean we shouldn't clear the problem before it goes too far and the entire population starves to death.
I know that, what I was pointing out is the enormous gap between the numbers, how can you call a study respectable with that big of a gap. They might as well say "We don't know how many birds they kill" because that's all those numbers tell me.That's how many birds they have killed. All those cats do have to eat regurlarly. I can't really say how high the numbers are for sure, or if those are way too high, but it's still a fact that they would be killing a lot of birds.
MAn I don't care the killing of cats is wrong and its gonna spread teh Black death dun dun dunnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!.Seriously that was one of the factors that spread the plague through europe.They killed offf their cats.Then the rat population grew.Their needs to be a bettersolution.Sure we got rat pision but come on I had like 12 rats in my house once and the poision only for 2 of them.My cat got the rest of them.Cats are so much better at killing pest than we are.So let the cats live!
DON'T KILL CATS, OR HAVEN'T YOU READ EDGAR ALLAN POE?
Seriosuly though, there is better ways of solving this issue. For example, I have helped capturing stray cats to take them to the vet and chemically castrate them, thus controlling stray cat population in Barcelona. It seems to me like a better solution, then again, it's easier to shoot them, and most people just don't mind doing that.
Chemical castration works for only a few days. Then it wears off. You'd have to continuously dose all the strays. A bullet, however, you only need to use once.
True. That's why you use surgical methods. My main problem is allowing residents a liscense to just start shooting. If the ferals are as big a problem as they claim (and, let's face it, feral cats do quite a bit of hunting,) then why not use humane methods? They should also make neutering pets mandatory, otherwise they'll just keep breeding.Chemical castration works for only a few days. Then it wears off. You'd have to continuously dose all the strays. A bullet, however, you only need to use once.
I love cats, so I think that is pretty stupid. There is probably a better way around the "cat problem".
It's not like people are going to be running through the cities with their guns cocked, just like you can't take a few potshots at a deer running down your street
I don't think some of you realize just how many feral cats can gather at somewhere like an old farmhouse.
There's also a difference between "stray" and "feral" mind you. You can adopt a stray cat, it might turn out fine. A feral cat is a little ball of hate.
I'm a fan of cats, and was originally shocked to read the proposal, but at the end of the day though, is a feral cat going to live much of a great life anyway? That being said, surely there are far more pressing issues at hand, unless the amount of birds being killed is negatively affecting the community in some way.
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Yeah, they isn't enough of them to keep the bug population down, so the bug population becomes too large and eats all the plants, and when all the plants die, we run out of oxygen and die.That's a negative effect, my friend.
Although I do see the reason I still think it's pretty stupid.
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