Quote:At random I took an example from a list of extinct animals. It looked like a likely target for the cat blamers and was. A couple of minutes figuring and googling was enough to almost exonerate the cat completely.
Could you please explain this leap of faith?
Quote:Being out competed for food or environmental change sends animals extinct.
So does killing all of them.
Quote:Being hunted to extinction? Rare as hens teeth unless man's the hunter and even then it's in circumstances that are unusual. The Dodo for instance.
Sounds like circular reasoning to me. It is rare, therefor it didn't happen in this particular case, or all the others where cats are implicated, therefor it is rare.
Quote:Australia is undergoing an extinction event and the cause is the cat...it's bollocks.
Is this as close as you get to a rational argument?
Quote:Australia's endangered species of small animal that are on the menu of feral cats can easily be collected in large number by university and government zoology teams, and then transferred for safe-keeping to live on our hundreds of cat-free islands ~ as well as being given to zoos all over the world.
Spoken like a true hippy. A totally useless solution given as an excuse for avoiding the rational solution.
Quote:In the whole accounting of damage to native wildlife and their habitat, feral cats are just one small slice of the cake.
So it is OK if they only send some animals extinct?
Quote:Cat owners don't let their cats go out to kill native animals.
Of course they do. What planet do you live on?
Quote:Most cat owners live in the cities and in the outer suburbs where endangered native animals do not live.
Because the cats killed them all. The other cat owners don't live in the cities, where again their cats are busy hunting native animals to extinction. That is, the ones that are not already extinct, due to cats killing them all for something to do. Do you realise that cats can move away from the cities and towns where they are released, particularly if the area is overpopulated with cats do you insufficient efforts to cull them?
Quote:There's WAY too much hysteria about feral cats.
There is no hysteria at all.
Quote:And at the very least ~ how many Australians have seen or even thought about the small native rodents that feral cats survive upon?
What is your point?
Quote:98% of all species that ever lived on Earth have become extinct.
What is your point?
Quote:1000 cats??? Something like that.
101 uses for a dead cat?
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