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When does an open season come?

giles

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The more you know...
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cb...sive-species-in-your-backyard-cbsn-originals/

Last weekend I made a commment and felt to tone change. Not sure why people feel different about this, had it been a hog that wondered threw camp, people would’ve been throwing tables and shit. Anyways, I’m glad to see this problem grabbing some real attention finally.

A cat roaming the woods is no ones pet, and it’s about time some of these owners start taking responsibility for their actions. Pretty damn sad IMO.






I once’s laughed at a guy walking a cat down the street. A few months later that fruit loop walked in my store, I knew exactly where I’d seen him before and kept my distance. Over the next few months he became a solid customer that would stop in multiple times a week just to BS. Could cal him a buddy at this point. Real smart guy that worked for the airlines and didn’t have a family, all he had was this cat. Worked for him to have a companion that didn’t need him home every few hours, just every few days.

Perfect for his lifestyle. One day I asked Frank (we will just call him Frank), wtf do you walk your cat on a leash for? By now I’ve known Frank for about a year and it was the first time I’d seen him get pissed. He ranted about how typical cat owners have no idea what they’re doing to the Wild by letting these killers roam. Narcissistic serial killers was the exact title he gave them.

That night I did some research and it seriously changed my way. I once was an owner of 2 cats that roamed. No longer did we do that and became responsible cat owners.

So I once laughed at a really smart guy because I was the idiot... A few times I’ve made comments of here and gotten responses about my perspective (not about cats, but in general). Maybe it was all because of Frank? I always try and keep that in my mind when things come up.
 
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Jackalope

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Cats, be them in the woods or in my yard very rarely get a free pass from me. Absolute sport killers of wildlife and hell on the song bird population.
 
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giles

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How many of them birds they kill help keep other bugs in check? Like skeeters and ticks. Bugs that can actually hurt us and seem to be getting out of control.

Butterfly effect
 

Blan37

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Feral cats are bad news. Definitely should be allowed to kill them, IMO. But our state, in its infinite wisdom, has deemed that to be a felony.
 

giles

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Feral cats are bad news. Definitely should be allowed to kill them, IMO. But our state, in its infinite wisdom, has deemed that to be a felony.
Hopefully articles like this and awareness will help us change that. It’s the first time I’ve seen information like this on a national news level.
 

Bowkills

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I watched some of the Python newscast last night. They briefly brought up cats and issues they create basically the same as the article. But compared to pythons lion fish, and Asian carp eating them or killing them for animal food the cats just got a humorous laugh. They said be responsible owners and get them fixed. Keep them contained wasn't expressed much in the segments I caught. At least it made news. 40000 birds in a lifetime a feral cat could kill according to Jeff corwin.
 

Blan37

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I just meant that I don't have a lot of hope that things will change. Too many laws get written based on feelings and not facts, and the one that currently makes it a felony to kill a feral cat is probably not going to change anytime soon.