Are you Pro or Con on passing a law to allow feral cat hunting in WI.?

[bobthedrummer]

Poll question: Are you Pro or Con on passing a law to allow feral cat hunting in WI.?

Vote.

[Jon8503]

1. Yeah, should be a petition to send to whereever on this.

[StClone]

2. Wish I could vote more than once

Feral cats are the things you see as roadkill, carry diseases to your pets and rabies. Millions of bunnies, birds and other babies die due to cats that are running wild.

[AValdoux]

3. How do they know hich cat's feral?

My cat is a barn/house cat. He has all his shot's but we can't keep a collar on him. A collar would be dangerous for him because he climbs in rafters and such. I can't keep in him a fence and we live on 15-acres. I have horse fencing but a cat fence would be very expensive if it even exist. What happens to him when he leaves my property?

Would anyone being proposing this for dogs. I have dogs coming and going from my property all the time. Some are dropoffs by city dwellers.

AValdoux

[Botany]

4. Has to be done.

In much of middle America the Wood Thrush is all but gone thanks to
non native invaders .... bush honeysuckle (the nest too low to the ground)
and feral cats.

do the same w/ wild pigs, horses, goats, and so on. If you really love an
understand nature this must be done. BTW for cat owners .... feral cats
transmit feline leukemia at a staggering rate.

[AllyCat]

22. Sounds logical Botany, except...

...this bill allows random folks to go shooting anything without a collar...or trap, or poison, or whatever. They can do this by any means necessary, at any time, in any place, and for any reason. So much for the barn kitties. So much for my neighbor's cat who has slipped out of 10 collars since August.

Something needs to be done with the feral cat population and there are many wonderful vets who donate their time, facilities, and expertise spaying and neutering these animals, giving them their shots, and then rereleasing them. Eventually, the problem will decrease.

And the only reason the wild horses are causing this trouble is because they are competing on over-grazed land with the cattle ranchers. So do we shoot the cows too? And the worst of it all is the people who insist on building 4,000 square foot homes on little bitty lots out in exurbia that destroys habitat for all the animals in question in the first place. So do we have a season on wasteful suburbanites?

I'm concerned about the environment too, but we have made this mess by overextending ourselves into every corner of the planet. Killing animals that hurt another species here and there is treating the symptoms. But this bill is yet another way for people to go out and shoot stuff.

[DenverDem]

5. Sick shit.

That's what we need, psychos with guns given a license to shoot cats at will.

We need less random violence in our culture, not more.

[AutumnMist]

6. Its Not So Much A Vote

but a plea for people to get their animals neutered!!!! My husband and I go through a huge bag of cat/dog food a week. Not because of our cats alone, but because of the cats in the neighborhood. That have bred, and now their kittens, even the puppies from the neighborhood come to our porch to eat. We go through a ten pound bag a week almost. All kinds of hungry animals show up. If we call the animal protection agency they are euthanized. And we don't have the money to spay/neuter all the animals for the whole neighborhood. Please, and I mean please.....when you get the cute animal for your home...do the right thing. A cat can have three to four litters a year, and have one to five kittens a litter. The same with dogs. Get the right thing done! And don't add to over population! Ok....that's my two cents. :)We have the feral cats rip open the garbage and take it all over the neighborhood. They will do anything for food or water. Provide it for the ones that you can find. And contact a rescue organization that will help with the care and spay/neuter of these feral animals. They can do great damage, but they are hungry and cold during the winter. Of course it doesn't go away during the summer months. They are not there because they want to be there. They are there because of owners who have abandoned or haven't taken care of them.

[Warpy]

7. How are you gonna tell a feral cat from some child's pet?

That's the biggest question.

I'm very much in favor of keeping cats confined indoors because it's so much safer for them. However, even my beasties have gotten out from time to time. I'd have been outraged and devastated had some yahoo who couldn't tell the difference between a cared for pet and a half starved feral cat decide to slaughter them.

Trapping cats seems to be the best solution, taking them to animal control to be claimed by owners or to be neutered and released by a neutering program, if availiable.

Encouraging stupid fools to go around hunting cats is a very, very bad idea. People love their pets, and somebody might end up hunting the fools.

[sportndandy]

8. How about we put some teeth in animal ownership laws?

How about:

anyone who refuses to get their animal spayed or neutered must pay a yearly breeders fee.

how about make animal abandonment a priority for law enforcement

[AutumnMist]

9. Amen N/T

:)

[Inland]

10. During deer season, cheeseheads shoot anything that moves, anyway.

After a few Hamm's, everything looks like a doe. Cat, dog, hunter, empty Hamm's can, they all look the same from the tree branches.

[sybylla]

14. Why don't you try painting with a little broader brush

I mean, why stop at cats and dogs and other hunters? Maybe us cheesehead hunters shoot at anything that moves like song birds and, and horses, and donkeys, and cows and, oh gosh, what's left?

[RevCheesehead]

18. the neighbor's children?

Because if you really want to talk about the nuisance, the noise, the smell, the spreading of disease....there's nothing worse than a snotty-faced kid in your front yard.

[Inland]

21. And they scare away the deer and feral cats, ruin the hunting. nt

[Inland]

19. I kid, I kid.

Could I have made it any more obvious than that? I don't think I could have been taken seriously.

[RevCheesehead]

17. sounds like something a FIB would say. n/t

[Inland]

20. Maaaaayyybe.

Why would my place of residence matter? You bigot, you! :)

[gizmo1979]

11. come on

I don't like cats but shooting them is a bit extreme.

[Ian David]

12. Why just the feral ones? The domesticated ones are much easier targets.

They're also more tender and moist.

[RetroLounge]

13. I have no love for Feral Cats

but we have enough idiots running around with guns in this state now...

RL

[Is It Fascism Yet]

15. Cat killing is the early occupation of most serial killers. sick idea.

[MessiahRp]

16. I think some people are just jerks

that want to hunt anything. They lobbied hard to hunt mourning doves and now cats. It's sick and demented how people feel the need to murder anything they can.

I say this, if they want to get their aggression out, let's cordon an area off, let all the hunters have the same guns with the same ammo, throw them in and they can hunt each other like a huge real live paintball game.

Rp