freediver wrote on Jun 19
th, 2013 at 9:35pm:
Quote:Every country in the world has stories of extinct animals. Get over it!
Sums up the attitude very nicely. Thanks Herbert.
It's an attitude borne of accepting a reality that can never be changed. In these cases I simply
move on. I don't become maudlin and filled with guilt and regret.
Our own politicians of all parties also don't give a damn. It would need them only to sign into law that all domestic cats must be de-sexed ... not just the females, and any cats found not de-sexed would incur draconian penalties upon the owners.
But the pollies have done absolutely nothing to address the problem of feral cats.
There's no bounty ... there's no bating ... there's no law to scare the shyte out of cat owners who can't be bothered to have their moggies de-sexed.
It's like trying to paddle away from a 20 foot tsunami wave approaching the beach. I prefer to just relax and enjoy the ride.
The dice are weighted overwhelmingly on the side of these outback pussy-cats.
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All it would need is for the federal government to give our Chinese community franchise rights over Australia's feral cats so they can trap them as an industry for export to China's restaurants and road-side eateries.
But you can change the outcome. You don't need to eradicate feral cats to save the remaining native species. All the hopeless cases are already gone. The rest just need us to keep cat numbers down by killing them at every opportunity.
I like your ideas. But we don't need to give the Chinese franchise rights. We already slaughter more than enough cats to supply a market, if it became legal.