Unbelievable. What universe is this? I think I better get my head out
of the sand. I didn't even know these people existed. How can there be
6,830 of them?
BONNIE J KALMBACH wrote:
The bad news is that the advisory vote on the resolution to make cats
an unprotected species won, but the good news is that head of the DNR
says there will be no cat hunt.
The question was passed in a statewide advisory vote by those who
attended the annua; Conservation Congress meetings held in each
county. The vote was 6,830 in favor and 5,201 opposed to the idea. The
results of this vote go to the Natural Resources Board which then
recommends changing any laws to the state legislature - but as Scott
Hassett, the DNR secretary is adamantly opposed to a cat hunt, this is
probably the end of the matter for now.
The DNR knows that allowing cats to be hunted would cause a lot of
legal problems (e.g. people often can't tell if a cat is a true feral
or a stray or a just a barn cat wandering around) that many farmers
would close their land to hunters, that tourism would be affected, and
with the DNR budget having been slashed, like those of so many state
agencies these days, they just want to avoid all the problems and
headaches that would ensue.
A lot of people are hoping this is a wake-up call to those who let
their cats run free and don't spay or neuter.
reporting from Wisconsin,
Bonnie Kalmbach
