cat hunting in WI

[jackrussgirl]

I seriously doubt people are going to be shooting cats in suburban areas so I think the neighborhood cats are pretty safe.

I talked to a friend about this and she has a relative who lives in a trailer park where she says she wishes she could shoot the things. She said that the mamas have their kittens under the trailer and a few weeks later they stagger into the daylight, malnourished, full of ticks and fleas and worms. The children love to pick them up and are scratching a few days later. Animal control doesn't do anything. The whole place is a hygiene nightmare. I asked her about the house cats that belong to people. She laughed and said that those were the ones she was talking about.

Her point was that you have to draw the line somewhere. It's dumps like those that are the problem. I don't think anyone's pampered house cat has anything to worry about.

 

[Renee750il]

If animal control isn't doing anything, you complain. You call the elected official for your district, you call the mayor, the county executive's office, you make a royal pain out of yourself. Not just because the animals are a nuisance, but because they "owners" are not fit to own an animal AND they are creating a public health risk.

 

[jackrussgirl]

Yeah. We should get the Humane Society to kill them instead because that's exactly what will happen. They're saturated and probably won't use any resources for half-dead kittens. At least that sort of culling is still legal.

 

[Renee750il]

That's still infinitely more humane than hunting and shooting. It also takes the freaks who get off on cruelty out of the picture.

 

[blue]

Like somebody said in the cat hunting thread on a gun forum post on, "I'll just post No hunting No trapping signs on my land and shoot his ass when he comes hunting trapping my cat."

I keep my cat indoors at all times, last time she got out cost me more than having her fixed. Domestic cats do more damage to wildlife than domestic dogs do, that said Ild find it easier to shoot a dog than a cat. If you love your Mr Kitty keep her inside and HAVE IT FIXED.

My parents are turning into the crazy cat people of their street.

If you shoot my cat you are having a hunting accident.

 

[becca_4321]

Around here we have farmers wanting cats. They want kittens. They need them to keep the mice down.
I just think WI is looking for a way to legally kill cats. Cats already get mistreated so badly by certain people because they hate them. So if its legal to hunt a cat does that mean there will be no such thing as abusing a cat? Does that mean a teen can tie a cat up to a tree, torture it to death and no one will ever care because its legal to kill a cat, as long as it had no collar. Maybe since their deer have been diseased and put a hurting in the hunting season they needed something else to hunt.

 

[Renee750il]

The coyotes have decimated the barn cats around here. Maybe the cat hunting faction in Wisconsin would just take some of our @#*$ coyotes!

 

[smkie]

at the apartment complex where we lived the cats had their own culture. One dumpster was the geriatric club..the next set of dumpsters was Hot town (you get my drift) and the final dumpster was the Gelding association. I know this because Eddie wasn't called Fast eddie for no reason. He would get out and i would waste infinate amount of my time finding him and bringing him home. He too found his way to the gelding club. Then when we moved to the burned house i had completely given up keeping him in by that time. Across the street was a stretch of woods with a creek running thru. One by one each night you could see cats slinking their way down between the same houses and going into the woods. I figure the same thing was going on down there. Ed was neutered..but so many were not. have you seen a mother cat on her third or fourth litter? she is bald, emacited, worn out. Hunting would be bad, but letting a cat go on like that is worse. A tom has it no better, his cheeks thick with scar tissue, usually it is an abcess that takes him out sooner or later, that or leukemia. I believe that cats should be kept in..but they are not the prodominate threat on songbirds..we are with our imported species and our special shrubs. Starlings have multiplied so bad here that to see a thrush is a rare treat..the flocks of starlings are hundreds thick. When i stayed in Platte City i decided it was the only bird they had..and they all waited for people to put out their dog food..you could see them going from house to house..they peck open trash bags now too..they learned that from the crows. We take out the plants that provide the shelter the birds need and plant shrubs that provide no protection and little food. If a cat is shot that looks like the female that has had too many litters, or a tom with festering wounds.full of infection and disease..i would see it as a mercy to them, but to legalize it allows for nuts to go overboard and take out the neighbor's cat..i don't see the point in that.

 

[jackrussgirl]

Here's what WI needs to do on a state-wide basis to get rid of the cat problem they have.

http://www.catcaresociety.org/feral.htm

Unfortunately, that ain't gonna happen. The state that allowed this huge problem to develop by people who thought for the short term can't think on the long term to fix it. Shooting the cats is a short term solution and is also the cheapest.

It's irresistable to any incompetant government. Only thing cheaper would be to do nothing, which right now, has a lot less resistance.

 

[Renee750il]

Good site. Maybe it should be e-mailed to the state representatives in Wisconsin.