Watch that they don't kill you.

Looks like you swallowed the Dept. of Land Management book Freediver. Apart from that got any facts to back their assertions?

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Here's how it works. Cat moves into the 'hood'. There's ten target prey, cat kills three, lifes good, has babies. Prey gets hard to find. The simple minded and slow have been caught. If there's three prey left the cat can't find them. Cat dies before the last of the target species.

That's the way it works logically and in practice  in every predator prey situation anywhere that doesn't involve man as predator. Only men can send the target animal into extinction, usually by habitat destruction.

Grey wrote on May 31^st, 2013 at 8:27pm:


No grey, this is how it works. Our native animals are not adapted to cats. The cat eats a few, gets full, but then keeps killing for fun. It kills the last one in existence. The animal is now extinct. Then the hippies come in and make excuses for it. Most people put reality before hippy logic.

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You have no clue do you? Many are already extinct.

Grey wrote on May 31^st, 2013 at 3:10am:


Well said, Mr Grey.

Developers destroy native habitats way more than feral cats. I've seen docos in which a heavy chain is attached at both ends to bulldozers  and then the bulldozers move forward through the bush in parallel with one another, flattening trees, bushes, old stumps and anything else in their path. 

Whole valleys and hillsides are decimated of vegetation to make way for new housing estates ... housing estates that are needed for an ever-increasing influx of migrants and refugees.

Who are those who bitch the loudest about feral cats? The Greens.

Who are those at the forefront of lobbying the hardest for an increase in migrant and refugees intake? The Greens.

Can't have it both ways, guys.

David Attenborough ...

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Ironically, the population expansion policy is wanted by both the business community Rightwing AND the political Left.

One wants it for business reasons, while the other wants it as a means of dislodging the White, Christian, Anglo/Irish predominance from its position at the top of the demographic totem pole.

Whitlam's side-kick Al Grassby said it best:

"I want to get rid of those North Shore White ghettoes".

Grey wrote on May 31^st, 2013 at 8:31pm:


Skinks!

Every summer I spend half my time rescuing these from the kitchen floor where my two skink-hunting critters dump them for playing with.

You can add sparrows, mice, and Indian Mynas as pests that our domestic cats help to reduce in number.

My old neighbour remembers when he was allowed to own an air-gun which he used to reduce the imported pest birds in his backyard.

freediver wrote on Jun 1^st, 2013 at 9:04am:



I actually DO have a clue. I have trapped cats in one typical area of forest, regularly, over a three year period. It showed consistent rises and falls of cat population coninciding with school holidays.

The area contained quail. It's hard to think of a more cat vulnerable species than quail but over the three year period their numbers remained constant too. Declining during periods when the cat population had risen, but overall holding their own.

I am not a hippy, I don't come preprogrammed to any issue. To have a theory proved wrong is knowledge gained, to have a theory proved right is knowledge gained. That's the scientists way.

To shrill with certainty the accepted explanation is something else entirely. Animal goes extinct around the time cats were introduced, cats kill animals, therefore cats sent animals to extinction is not science.

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I never claimed it was based purely on association. That is your strawman. There are cases where cats were seen to kill the last of a species.