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Should cats be eradicated from Australia?

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stui magpie wrote:
... Feral cats are estimated to kill 750,000 birds a day in Australia, and council staff said the bounty came in response to "an exploding population" of feral cats hunting native wildlife.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... cat-scalps
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This is astonishing. A billion birds slaughtered by cats in less than 3 years.
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^

Not to mention the numbers of reptiles, amphibians and small mammals
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
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^

I used to have a dog who looked a little like that. German Shepherd x Lab with maybe a touch of great dane in the genes. He could jump and take a stick out of my hand at full extension which is just about 2.4m.

He didn't like cats. After I had to send him to live with my parents up bush, he cleaned up the strays within about a block radius. Frequently when taking him for a walk, my dad would have to wrestle a dead cat from his mouth once they got home and put it in the bin.
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Same model, different shirt... (Hmmm... I think they may have just photoshopped the different shirt design on the above pic.)

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K wrote:Same model, different shirt... (Hmmm... I think they may have just photoshopped the different shirt design on the above pic.)
yes they did, the nasty shirts both have the same crease lines in them, easy job that one!
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^ And the square in the second pic is very straight-edged and two-dimensional looking. Not a very convincing job they did.
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Cats can stop roaming the day peoples dogs stop ruining my peace and quiet with there barking.
He's mad. He's bad. He's MaynHARD!
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^ So your peace and quiet is worth more than billions of native fauna being killed, with species going extinct?

People actually can and do complain about barking, though I personally think this is only remotely reasonable if it's in the middle of the night.
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You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either!
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"Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange
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swoop42 wrote:Cats can stop roaming the day peoples dogs stop ruining my peace and quiet with there barking.
This.
kill for collingwood!
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^

Agreed. That's why you kill them humanely.

It also says something about how peoples reaction depends on cuteness and the perceived notion of pets.

I wouldn't see anyone up in arms about trying to eradicate cane toads, which are just another introduced species causing environmental damage, but not as much as cats.
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"Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange
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^ With intelligence comes responsibility. Cats are relatively intelligent, so should they not also be held relatively responsible for the carnage?

But then this starts to get back to questions of evil...
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