1 Reply by The Yell (edited by The Yell 30-Jan-2013 22:01:47)

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Re: First they came for our guns, then they come for our cats

For all the adorable images of cats that play the piano, flush the toilet, mew melodiously and find their way back home over hundreds of miles, scientists have identified a shocking new truth: cats are far deadlier than anyone realized.

In a report that scaled up local surveys and pilot studies to national dimensions, scientists from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and the Fish and Wildlife Service estimated that domestic cats in the United States

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Re: First they came for our guns, then they come for our cats

luckily KT has both cats and guns

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Re: First they came for our guns, then they come for our cats

Yes, cats are a menace.  As we all know, mice and birds are endangered species and need to be protected hmm

I am going to say this has to be the stupidest study ever done.  The biggest problem with "free roaming" cats is many starve to death because the arsehole owners have them declawed while they own them and when they don't want there cats any more they drive them out to the country and then dump them off.  I am not sure why this story pretends that mice and birds are some ecological treasure but again its stupid.

"All concur that pet cats should not be allowed to prowl around the neighborhood at will, any more than should a pet dog, horse or potbellied pig, and that cat owners who insist their felines

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Beowolfe... you keep thinking that... This study has made me realise my army of cats concept is a real winner...

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Re: First they came for our guns, then they come for our cats

Fear the invasive species!

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Re: First they came for our guns, then they come for our cats

> BeoWolfe wrote:

> Yes, cats are a menace.  As we all know, mice and birds are endangered species and need to be protected hmm

I am going to say this has to be the stupidest study ever done.  The biggest problem with "free roaming" cats is many starve to death because the arsehole owners have them declawed while they own them and when they don't want there cats any more they drive them out to the country and then dump them off.  I am not sure why this story pretends that mice and birds are some ecological treasure but again its stupid.

"All concur that pet cats should not be allowed to prowl around the neighborhood at will, any more than should a pet dog, horse or potbellied pig, and that cat owners who insist their felines

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Re: First they came for our guns, then they come for our cats

in my day a guy took a thousand measurements and made a book of every measurement and then published his averages and everybody could read it and if enough of his seniors read it and agreed that it mattered he got awards and prestige

now some guy puts 100,000 measurements in a computer, you can't read all of them, he cuts out the measurements he doesn't like and announces the first guy's research didn't begin to deal with how bad the problem was

it gets in the papers and his friends figure they can use that to argue with Congress, so he's a leading scientist

I dunno, its almost as if universities got rich by graduating 10x the number of scientists, who just borrow tuition, and they have to invent work to do to justify the industry

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"My neighbors had to get a special fence because the cats kept attacking their dog when they let it outside.  People are regularly attacked by 2-3 cats.  Apparently it is even worse in kitten season"

Where the hell do you live... Africa?  Cats don't attack dogs... dogs attack cats.  If a cat (or any animal) attacks a person animal control is called and the animal is put down - the owners then get sued.  If an old lady has a house with 20 cats, it takes one call to the county health department and she gets dragged off to an old folks home and the cats get boxed up and taken to the animal shelter.  I think you are either exaggerating or you purchased you house solely because your real estate agent told you that you wouldn't be able to walk out your front door without tripping over pussy cats.

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depends on the size of the dog

they do behave differently if they're in feral packs of 50

and yeah some counties lately don't give a damn, downsizing you know

I don't really have that problem in my neighborhood, the coyotes keep them down

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