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| beanflying:
--- Quote from: james_s on May 28, 2021, 04:43:30 am ---Farms in in this part of the world have cats, they're highly efficient hunters that feed primarily on small rodents like mice. Cats have served to control the mouse population for centuries, it was one of the primary reasons they were domesticated. --- End quote --- Meanwhile also wiping out native Marsupial populations and severely depleting Bird populations and diversity. You don't get something for nothing and introducing additional Cats that is still a pest in its own right is not the solution. https://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/invasive-species/feral-animals-australia/feral-cats#:~:text=Feral%20cats%20threaten%20the%20survival,small%20to%20medium%2Dsized%20mammals.&text=They%20are%20found%20all%20over,grasslands%2C%20wetlands%20and%20arid%20areas. |
| james_s:
Well they're native here, or at least they've been around for as long as Europeans have been. I'd much rather have a bunch of cats around than a bunch of birds and rodents and stuff, I never did like birds, they crap all over my car and wake me up in the morning but whatever. It's true you don't get something for nothing, and really the most destructive pests on this planet by far are humans. You have to spay/neuter the cats so they don't breed out of control. |
| beanflying:
--- Quote from: james_s on May 28, 2021, 04:57:22 am ---Well they're native here, or at least they've been around for as long as Europeans have been. I'd much rather have a bunch of cats around than a bunch of birds and rodents and stuff, I never did like birds, they crap all over my car and wake me up in the morning but whatever. It's true you don't get something for nothing, and really the most destructive pests on this planet by far are humans. You have to spay/neuter the cats so they don't breed out of control. --- End quote --- That is a bad argument for the Cat. They are more or less the top predator in Oz in particular and already out there is the number of Millions unchecked and feral. The culling campaign is a band aid on an amputation given they live over the entire country including some of the remotest areas. They are nothing like the cute and cuddly housecat that get a trip to the Vet at 12 weeks for a snip. In some of the areas shown with the Mice issue the nearest Vet for example might be 2-300km+ away for a start. Pre 1770/1788 there was no Mice or Rattus Rattus and no Cats or Rabbits or Foxes or Cane Toads or Pigs or ..... Their common ancestory is fairly recent and the Damage done is huge. |
| tom66:
--- Quote from: Zero999 on May 27, 2021, 10:05:32 pm ---Here's the video I was talking about. Skip the first 45 seconds if you just want to hear the animal rights nutjob go on about not killing mice. :popcorn: --- End quote --- But that's not what the activist said (I can't believe I'm defending PETA.) She would prefer 'catch and release' but she understands that's not realistic in a scenario like this (the implication is of course they will be killed though she doesn't say that.) She wanted the government to intervene more before this became a problem, which is absolutely the only way you stop such a plague. The host (along with bundling in climate change and wildfire management, y'know, things with actual science behind them) pushes this as a big anti-intellectual conspiracy. Not surprising given Sky News Australia is owned by Murdoch, and Australia has many fewer media fairness regulations compared to e.g. the UK. |
| VK3DRB:
https://www.3aw.com.au/the-3aw-interview-that-left-tom-elliott-questioning-where-society-is-headed/ According to the cafe-latte sipping Greens in PETA, I am a serial killer. I have murdered while families of mice, subjecting them to a terrible death - poison, decapitation, and running over them with a motor mower ripping their babies to shreds :-DD. |
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