Wisconsin voting on hunting free roaming domestic cats (not joking)

Man. You'd lose your cookies on my block. There's about a dozen
free-roaming cats. Around here, we feed 'em and pet him when they stop
by. Sometimes I'm really happy to live where I live :

Tracy - - Think of it like cigarette smoking. Most cat lovers are not
bothered by the presence of other people's cats.

likewise some act surprised when you ask them not to smoke in your
house or leave their cigarette butts on your lawn.

Unless otherwise instructed, the *polite* thing, is to assume that no
one wants to be around your cat. If one of your ten dozen neighbors
asks you to control your cat, that should be enough.

I agree with Larry. Many pet owners just haven't signed the social
contract, when it comes to getting along with neighbors.

rsquared

This is not a good law to have on the books, I would imagine that there
are those that would abuse it for their own strange pleasure.

Also, in a more suburban setting, mistakes could be made. Why not
increase state funding for dealing with feral colonies..Or develop some
contraceptive spray that could be released over an entire colony.

DNR knocked that law down. It isn't going to happen.


"Daniel Augustus" wrote in message
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This is not a good law to have on the books, I would imagine that there
are those that would abuse it for their own strange pleasure.

Also, in a more suburban setting, mistakes could be made. Why not
increase state funding for dealing with feral colonies..Or develop some
contraceptive spray that could be released over an entire colony.

link http://www.wbay.com/Global/story.asp...2&nav=51s6YZQY




"Bandwidth" wrote in message
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DNR knocked that law down. It isn't going to happen.


"Daniel Augustus" wrote in message
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This is not a good law to have on the books, I would imagine that there
are those that would abuse it for their own strange pleasure.

Also, in a more suburban setting, mistakes could be made. Why not
increase state funding for dealing with feral colonies..Or develop some
contraceptive spray that could be released over an entire colony.

I think the reality is that the better solution is to do both:
education and eradication (shoot-to-kill); only one or the other would
not work.

This kind of thing gets me... Let me see if I have the whole Wisconsin
thing straight::

- Irresponsible humans, abandon their un-fixed domestic cats. Over time this
creates a large feral population.

- These cats are BETTER at catching prey than your average gun toting
hunter. Thereby depleeting hunter's supply of targets.

-Average gun toting hunter now wants to kill cats.

Do I have that about right? Because if I do, this looks like a case of
envy/revenge from some **** POOR preadators.
--
Mathew
Butler to 2 kittens: Chablis & Muscat
En Vino Veritas

"Tracy - - Think of it like cigarette smoking. Most cat lovers are not
bothered by the presence of other people's cats"

You could think of it in lots of ways, really. I'm not a car owner and
I'm really bothered by the prescence of other people's big honking SUV
tanks, especially when they park in the space in front of my house,
grab all the available space and block my view. I'm also not a cell
phone owner and I am terminally annoyed when people invade my space and
my property with their stupid ringing songs and their private
conversations that I am forced to overhear. Yet last I heard, this
annoyance does not give me the right to flatten their tires or grab
their cell phone and smash it.

"Unless otherwise instructed, the *polite* thing, is to assume that no
one wants to be around your cat. If one of your ten dozen neighbors
asks you to control your cat, that should be enough"

Ten dozen neighbors? My kitties visit three neighboring yards
encompassing less than a dozen people in toto. And they all have cats
and dogs themselves. The puppy next door regularly dumps his leash and
runs over to my yard to visit the cats. I don't shoot him, even though,
horrors, he always takes a crap in my yard while visiting. I hug him
.... and return him. What's so hard about acting like a human being?

And the polite thing to assume is that many things that you do in my
prescence may well annoy me, but due to the social contract of living
in a community, I do not pick up arms when I am annoyed and shoot the
perpetrator. Living in a community involves mutual tolerance, not
hair-trigger stupidity over minor matters.

Do you guys duel at dawn about late night noise or an overgrown hedge?

"Mathew Kagis" wrote in message
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This kind of thing gets me... Let me see if I have the whole Wisconsin
thing straight::

- Irresponsible humans, abandon their un-fixed domestic cats. Over time
this
creates a large feral population.

- These cats are BETTER at catching prey than your average gun toting
hunter. Thereby depleeting hunter's supply of targets.

-Average gun toting hunter now wants to kill cats.

Do I have that about right? Because if I do, this looks like a case of
envy/revenge from some **** POOR preadators.

Yep, the hunters want a license to hunt the predators who are killing the
hunter's prey.

Said it before... I want a license to hunt the predators who are killing the
cats' prey.

Hugs,

CatNipped

--
Mathew
Butler to 2 kittens: Chablis & Muscat
En Vino Veritas

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And the polite thing to assume is that many things that you do in my
prescence may well annoy me, but due to the social contract of living
in a community, I do not pick up arms when I am annoyed and shoot the
perpetrator. Living in a community involves mutual tolerance, not
hair-trigger stupidity over minor matters.

Do you guys duel at dawn about late night noise or an overgrown hedge?

Oooo, oooo, can we make *one* exception? The people who blare rap music
from their cars that you can hear from 3 miles away? Could we *please*
shoot them????! ;

Hugs,

CatNipped

"CatNipped" wrote in message
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wrote in message
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And the polite thing to assume is that many things that you do in my
prescence may well annoy me, but due to the social contract of living
in a community, I do not pick up arms when I am annoyed and shoot the
perpetrator. Living in a community involves mutual tolerance, not
hair-trigger stupidity over minor matters.

Do you guys duel at dawn about late night noise or an overgrown hedge?

Oooo, oooo, can we make *one* exception? The people who blare rap music
from their cars that you can hear from 3 miles away? Could we *please*
shoot them????! ;

Speaking of which... funny story. A young friend of mine was a rookie
police officer riding in the car with a veteran cop when they saw the
following. An elderly man was sitting in his car, stuck in a massive
traffic jam in Houston (there's *always* a massive traffic jam here in
Houston). It was summer and cars tend to overheat quickly when not moving
along briskly, so air conditioners were turned off and windows were rolled
down. A young man in a car three cars away was blaring rap music so loud it
could have been heard in the next county. The rookie cop could see the
elderly man was getting more and more irritable the longer it went on (they
were all stuck in the same spot for more than 20 minutes). Finally the
elderly man got out of his car, walked over to the young man's car, aimed a
gun, and shot the stereo several times until it was dead. As the elderly
man walked back to his car other drivers started applauding.. The rookie
cop started to get out of the squad car but the veteran cop put out his hand
and stopped him. The rookie said, "Shouldn't we go handle this problem?"
and the veteran cop replied, "Son, it looks to me like it's already been
handled." ;

Hugs,

CatNipped