- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
They get real big in the desert
Is it in Australia where cats are only allowed out on a lead due to the amount of small mammals they kill ?
Is it in Australia where cats are only allowed out on a lead due to the amount of small mammals they kill ?
Under the new domestic animal management plan, owners will face a fine if their cat is caught off their property."Keeping pet cats contained is the only responsible option," she said.
Oh the next cat loving vegan I see posts something against livestock farming is in for a treat
Sorry meant to add that off course toxo is a major issueI am the accidental owner of a cat, a toty wee tabby that was abandoned at around 4 weeks old, I took her in out of miserable weather fully expecting her to die ( but at least in a bit of comfort ) . I have now been lumbered by the most awesome small animal that brightens every day of every member of my family. She is no angel! She hunts ( mice in the main and is too small to consider rats and too thick to catch the birds! ) She has caused numerous logistical problems but I would not be without her as she is a loving, witchy clawed wee ars@hole. Cats tend to hang about their own territory and that is their killing zone and as a farmer I have no issue with this. Cattle crush the eggs of ground nesting birds, mowers decimate fawns who have no flight response until they are two weeks old, Badgers are totally taking over ..........just BOOM! We have a silage field that has been completely taken over and yet farmers are talking about the damage cats do? Corvids are decimating at lambing time, dogs running riot worrying stock, humans leaving dog sh!t in tree's and gates open, dumping waste but cats are the enemy? ReallY? Dog worrying is something I have seen first hand on our own farm, not nice, 3 texel tups with throats torn out. a ewe drowned in the river in attempt to escape and another two ewes that required intervention from the knackers. Yet cats are an issue? Why are we not dealing with the real problems, pet cats?
They are all problems that should be addressed.I am the accidental owner of a cat, a toty wee tabby that was abandoned at around 4 weeks old, I took her in out of miserable weather fully expecting her to die ( but at least in a bit of comfort ) . I have now been lumbered by the most awesome small animal that brightens every day of every member of my family. She is no angel! She hunts ( mice in the main and is too small to consider rats and too thick to catch the birds! ) She has caused numerous logistical problems but I would not be without her as she is a loving, witchy clawed wee ars@hole. Cats tend to hang about their own territory and that is their killing zone and as a farmer I have no issue with this. Cattle crush the eggs of ground nesting birds, mowers decimate fawns who have no flight response until they are two weeks old, Badgers are totally taking over ..........just BOOM! We have a silage field that has been completely taken over and yet farmers are talking about the damage cats do? Corvids are decimating at lambing time, dogs running riot worrying stock, humans leaving dog sh!t in tree's and gates open, dumping waste but cats are the enemy? ReallY? Dog worrying is something I have seen first hand on our own farm, not nice, 3 texel tups with throats torn out. a ewe drowned in the river in attempt to escape and another two ewes that required intervention from the knackers. Yet cats are an issue? Why are we not dealing with the real problems, pet cats?
Those things you list don't make the damage done by cats acceptable, they just add to it.I am the accidental owner of a cat, a toty wee tabby that was abandoned at around 4 weeks old, I took her in out of miserable weather fully expecting her to die ( but at least in a bit of comfort ) . I have now been lumbered by the most awesome small animal that brightens every day of every member of my family. She is no angel! She hunts ( mice in the main and is too small to consider rats and too thick to catch the birds! ) She has caused numerous logistical problems but I would not be without her as she is a loving, witchy clawed wee ars@hole. Cats tend to hang about their own territory and that is their killing zone and as a farmer I have no issue with this. Cattle crush the eggs of ground nesting birds, mowers decimate fawns who have no flight response until they are two weeks old, Badgers are totally taking over ..........just BOOM! We have a silage field that has been completely taken over and yet farmers are talking about the damage cats do? Corvids are decimating at lambing time, dogs running riot worrying stock, humans leaving dog sh!t in tree's and gates open, dumping waste but cats are the enemy? ReallY? Dog worrying is something I have seen first hand on our own farm, not nice, 3 texel tups with throats torn out. a ewe drowned in the river in attempt to escape and another two ewes that required intervention from the knackers. Yet cats are an issue? Why are we not dealing with the real problems, pet cats?
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