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 Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 7:51 pm
Actually, as a biologist, i have to say that this is a necessary step in irradicating an invasive species that does not belong there and is probably hurting the native wildlife. As painful as it is, they do this with all invasives...plants, animals, fungi, etc...if it is hurting the natives it is best that they remove it before some species are forced into extinction because they were out competed for resources. Speaking as someone who also loves and works with ferral cats quite often...these are not your cats, they are wild animals and sometimes will never be able to be adopted and require a lot of effort, that some shelters can't afford, to make them adoptable. This is probably the best option for the environment and the cats. Also for those of you suggesting relocation, domesticated cats are some of the most efficient domestic predators in the world, they will out compete anywhere they go.
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Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 12:19 pm
I'm not sure if this is the same situation or another area where cats were seen as an invasive species decimating local wildlife. But anyway, I recently read an article where they had removed a colony of cats from an isolated location to protect the local wildlife (mostly birds if I recall)... only to discover that by removing the cats there was an explosion in the rabbit population (also an invasive species) and the rabbits were destroying the food sources of other native wildlife.
We do a pretty good job of screwing up the natural balance of things, so while cats might be an easy target to blame when native species start disappearing, getting rid of cats is not a complete solution - we either need to be prepared to fully restore the natural balance or we just shift the imbalance to another species.
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Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 5:38 pm
I think if they're going to do something like that, we should have a human eradication plan for over-population. There are more of them then there are cats! (Jerks)
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Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 5:07 pm
I understand the concern of the people but whats with the shooting?!! Is there no other way? If your going to get rid of them just do it nicely, don't shoot them, thats horrible!
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 11:38 pm
u sick twisted idiots! if u really want to protect endangered wildlife
first-clean the freakin ocean
second-stop pollluuuuuttttiiinnngggg there are tons of species on this earth that we dont even know about because they died before we knew about them
third-thats the most humane thing? i wonder why cants we use bait and traps to catch them that will save tons of life we all exist in nature togheter it not right for one species in the food chain to eliminate another species
fourth-get near any of my cats and u willl have been inhumanely tooken care of
this wrong in so many ways we cant abuse our power just so other species survive anyways u probaly killed off a ton of the wildlife and u can spray and neuter them hmmm.....i wonder wat would it be like if our roles were changed in life? cats would be smart and we would still be very hairy would they show more mercy on our kind i would say yes since cats are on a different evoulutinary path also as anila said if u remove a hunter from the population yes it will increase the population but it will mostly likely backfire on them
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Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 3:43 pm
well cats are an invasive species, they hunt all the pet pyhtons that idiots set loose in florida, and people are paid to kill rabbits in other countries.
cats are very distructive animals towards other wildlife.
its sad but for the sake of the local wildlife it probably needs to be done since they probably cant rehome the cats fast enough
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