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Whilst licking their paws in aus.tv on 31 Oct 2002, Woofie purred:

> Can't give any references for this one but a few years ago an army
> mate of mine was part of a team who were shooting feral cats in
> western Queensland and other parts. A very large number of the cats
> were shot near rabbit warrens. Some biologist types with the army
> blokes found that the shot moggies had bellies full of mostly young
> bunnies. It would be logical to assume that young bunnies, not yet
> bush aware would be easy targets for hungry cats. Far eaasier to catch
> than birds and small reptiles.
 
I remember the front page news article with the army men holding up all of 
the dead cats.  Now I'm a cat lover (just look at my email address or 
website) but I also understand that you have to take responsibility for any 
animal that you take into your care.  For cats, that means keeping them 
completely under control indoors at all times or only allowed out on a 
leash with you hold ing the other end (yes, cats will get used to leashes 
if you train them up from young enough).  So my cats only ever leave the 
house in a cat carrier if they are to go to the Vet or something like that.

I can be a cat lover and an environment lover at the same time.  My cats 
are all desexed at five months of age so there is no breeding involved (and 
neither should there be when tens of thousands of cats are being destroyed 
every year due to overbreeding of moggies).  I also only take in rescue 
cats - ones that would otherwise not have a home.

Anyway, as much as I love cats, I didn't find this picture to be all that 
horrible.  The army has the best shart shooters (or one would hope) in 
Australia and therefore they are able to kill with one hit.  I don't 
believe in making any animal suffer  - it wasn't it's fault that it died, 
it was the fault of the careless people who bred them in the frist place.  
And as baiting doesn't work (kills too many native species as well 
especially dingoes) and things like trapping are just cruel, shooting, if 
done by professionals who are trained to do so, is probably the best way to 
get the population down to a managable size (or perhaps even elliminated 
one day).

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See ya!

Vicki Whyte
vickiwhyte@litterkittecat.com
http://www.kittecat.com
Take out the litter to email me.

Women and cats will do as they please and men and dogs should relax and get 
used to the idea.