Hundreds Attend Meetings Across Wisconsin to Discuss the Possibility of Hunting Wild Cats

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I've said it before... The USA has the right to bear arms.

I prefer bear claws.

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Sarcasm? Your experience may be limited to life on the Microsoft
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rsquared

Mary wrote:
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You don't have cats, do you, asshole?

Oh, lovely! What are you doing here? Isn't Jerry Springer on?

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You're right, Mary. I'm weak.

I can't resist the urge to peek during a tacky barb-swapping session.
It takes me back to junior high school. I'm not proud of it.

Unfortunately (for me), I am finding you're better at it than I am. I
can be vain and petty, but I can't bring it to the surface as quickly
or copiously as you can.

I hope you're more open minded toward people who challenge your beliefs
in person. Otherwise, it would be a disservice to the values that seem
so dear to you.

TTFN,

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Mary wrote:
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You don't have cats, do you, asshole?

Oh, lovely! What are you doing here? Isn't Jerry Springer on?

*PLONK*

rsquared


I thought you already killfiled me. lol



You're right, Mary. I'm weak.

I can't resist the urge to peek during a tacky barb-swapping session.
It takes me back to junior high school. I'm not proud of it.

Unfortunately (for me), I am finding you're better at it than I am. I
can be vain and petty, but I can't bring it to the surface as quickly
or copiously as you can.

I hope you're more open minded toward people who challenge your beliefs
in person. Otherwise, it would be a disservice to the values that seem
so dear to you.

TTFN,

rsquared


Okay. Now then, dummy, why did you do the PLONK sound effect when
you are posting through Google?

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Google supports killfiles now?
Cool.


Sarcasm? Your experience may be limited to life on the Microsoft
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Do explain.

Steve G wrote:
Phil P. wrote:
(...)

I never understood the hunter's mentality. If they want a
challenge, join
the Army or better yet - the gung ho Marines - oh wait - that's too
dangerous because the prey shoots back....

Well, the Marines don't get to eat their prey.

Well, maybe hunters eat the mourning doves they kill but I have a
suspicion not too many plan to eat feral cats.
-Yngver

wrote:
yngver wrote:

This is really not about saving birds--this proposal passed because
there are a lot of cat-haters out there, apparently dying for a
chance
to shoot them legally. Because obviously there are far more humane
ways
to deal with feral cat populations. In addition, exactly where are
these feral cats that hunters will be gunning for located? Out in
the
country side, I don't see a lot of feral cats. You see the
occasional
farm cat roaming, but they are owned. Aren't most feral populations
in
cities and suburbs, where firing weapons is or ought to be illegal?
Urban areas in Wisconsin voted strongly against the proposal. So is
it
basically hunting afficionados who want to kill barn cats?

-Yngver

I have noticed the same thing. In my experience, the problem is in
developed areas where cats (racoons, possums, armadillos) are living
off the fat of human waste. Where there are rats, there will be
cats.

It's a stretch, but the only path I can see may be as a way to
streamline the extermination process for professional pest control
businesses. Under existing laws, they can probably kill rats, but
have
to capture cats. It may have little or nothing to do with the people
we think of as "hunters".

Well, the proposal originated with a hunter who was upset at seeing cat
tracks near his bird feeder. Of course, that doesn't mean it was a
feral cat, but that's their assumption.


I do not hunt, but I hike often. I can't recall ever seeing a cat
that
was deep in the woods, and I have stumbled into many equally
shy/timid
creatures.

Agreed. I do a lot of hiking in Wisconsin woods too. Never came across
a feral cat. As Phil has pointed out, cats are opportunistic feeders.
They go where there are easy pickings.

In defense of hunters, most states require some amount of safety
training and education before licensing them to go out and shoot.
The
same should be required before someone can purchase a domestic
animal.
It may address the shock of responsibility and cycle of abandonment &
neglect.

In Wisconsin, it is illegal to fire a rifle within so many feet of
road. Apparently, enough people had the bad judgement to try this
and
they had to make a law.

rsquared

I recall a case in which a hunter fired at a woman walking her dog
along a road. Said he thought the dog was a deer. If a dog looks like a
deer, imagine how many creatures can be mistaken for a feral cat, and
thus okay to shoot at.
-Yngver