>LAST EDITED ON May-24-12
>AT 01:37?PM (MST)
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>You post how bad is is
>to shoot furry little cats
>and then turn right around
>with this statement: "Kinda
>like the two dobermans I
>saw take down a fawn
>a couple years ago. Unfortunately
>I was not armed. Some
>of you are treading on
>thin ice 'hunting' domestic cats.
>I dont believe everything I
>read on the internet."
>Kind of hypocritical don't you think,
>when it sounds like you
>would have wasted those dogs
>if you had been armed!
> I would bet that
>feral cats kill 10 times
>the number of animals that
>dogs do, but neither should
>be allowed to roam all
>over with no ramifications.
So your saying two 80lb dobermans killing a fawn is the equivalent of a 7lb cat killing a bird or mice? No.
Your grasping for straws. You would bet feral cats kill 10 times more or do you actually have statistical proof of this? And kill more of what? Mice? Gophers? Snakes? I laugh when my neighbors complain of mice, gophers and other vermin tearing up insulation, their yards, ect. I dont have that problem. Does there need to be population control? Disease control? Yes. I just go for the more humane approach. Local vets have set up free clinics, euthanasia for diseased cats, and spay/neuter. I humanely trap feral cats, take them to the clinics, test and if diseased, they are euthanized. If healthy, spay/neutered and adopted out to farms with mice problems or companions.
However in my neck of the woods, i see more dogs running loose than i see cats. Ive never had a cat chase my colts around... but i have had loose dogs chase them through a fence.
I have the same approach with dogs. If found, they go to the free clinic, then to the pound so hopefully their owner can be found.
Do you know the biggest killer of pheasants, grouse, ect? The newly introduced wild Turkey's. They will destroy any nest they find and stomp the eggs. Wasnt the local felines killing off our pheasants, it was introduced wild Turkey's.