They were trying to pass such legislation in Florida, too - kill all feral cats on sight! And to be able to shoot them, if anyone even suspected them to be homeless, in Utah - people who know nothing about cats. dogs and wildlife, unfortunately, have the platform to come up with such asinine plans and then enforce them - the general public are told all kinds of lies, and unthinkingly and stupidly go along with it! It seems that no matter what "mankind" (?) does, it's OK, as long as animals aren't in the way...and if they are, well, get rid of them under some guise!
This is only one of my pet peeves: Yearly and systematically, OUR tax money is used to poison, burn, trap, shoot and exterminate wildlife like horses, burros, wild goats, foxes, coyotes, wolves, prairie dogs (just to name a few) to appease ranchers who lease OUR land from the government for pennies an acre (making huge profits), destroying it, and then moving on to the next.....Thank you Secretary of the Interior Salazar! Thanks for letting me rant this morning! -----Original Message----- From: felvtalk-boun...@felineleukemia.org [mailto:felvtalk-boun...@felineleukemia.org] On Behalf Of Maureen Olvey Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 3:38 AM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Keep Cats Indoors >From that study in CA, the American Bird Conservancy was saying that the answer was to trap and kill the cats. That's the part that really irritated me. Yeah, cats killed a lot of those birds. The little tigers will kill most anything that moves. It's their instinct. But the cats got there somehow and even before people fed them they were there and multiplying like crazy. Because of a lot of different reasons and a lot of studies, Trap-Neuter-Return the only way that will have the long term results of cutting the population of free-roaming cats way down. But, those "bird brains" just want to kill all the cats as though that will fix everything. I like birds and I like the people in the ABC, and I really don't think of them as "bird brains" I was just being funny, but the idiots that run the thing and making those comments about killing the cats are short-sighted. Everytime I hear something from the ABC I just get upset before even knowing what they're going to say because I know how they feel about free-roaming cats and I know they hate TNR. Obviously, I'm a big advocate of TNR. What I'd really like to say to them is that I wonder how many of those birds are killed when they build the condos and board walks and everything else along the beaches. They need to spend their time fighting that battle before trying to have the cats killed. Maybe they do fight those battles too, but that's my angry comment, and I know it doesn't change the fact that the cats kill the poor birds, but sometimes you just want to tell people off. Oh well, that's my middle of the night rantings about the ABC. I don't like cats killing birds, mice, chipmonks, or even the poor snakes and keeping them inside is the best thing for the cats too. I don't mind using the cat being killers argument to motivate people keeping their pets indoors but leave the ferals alone and don't start talking about killing them. "I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't..the pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further." - Mark Twain > Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:56:46 -0700 > From: hingebacktorto...@yahoo.com > To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Keep Cats Indoors > > Yes, the number one cause of bird extinction is habitat loss, but cats are #2. > There's a well-known study that was conducted on a couple of adjacent beaches in California, one with a feral cat population and one without. The beach that is home to feral cats has no birds - remember that most shorebirds are ground nesters - while the cat-free beach supports a healthy bird population. > Of course, our birds have natural predators - some raptors such as red-tailed hawks prey mostly on birds. Kingsnakes and rat snakes are known for feasting on eggs and hatchlings. But this is natural predation & so things are kept in balance. Throw in a highly efficient predator such as a cat and the balance changes. > > --- On Tue, 3/22/11, SomeWhere Sam <sin...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > > From: SomeWhere Sam <sin...@sbcglobal.net> > Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Keep Cats Indoors > To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2011, 4:36 PM > > > Sorry but that information is outdated or biased. > > The number one killer of birds is humans due to habitat loss or construction for > same. > > Humans: The Number One Threat to Birds > http://www.alleycat.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=325 > > SomeWhere Sam > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Bonnie Hogue <ho...@sonic.net> > To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > Sent: Tue, March 22, 2011 2:37:38 PM > Subject: [Felvtalk] Keep Cats Indoors > > In the newspaper today: > > House cats are the #1 predator of wild birds. The American Bird Conservancy > estimates up to 500 million birds per year are killed by cats. About 400,000 > are killed yearly by wind turbines (less than 20% of the number killed by > cats). So now we have another reason to keep our cats indoors -- not only for > their own health and safety, but for that of our BIRD population! > Save the cats and the birds: Keep Your Cat Indoors! > ~Bonnie > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
