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Post by bluemingidiot on Jun 30, 2023 0:01:23 GMT
in the Australian bush, from rare marsupials such as numbats and bandicoots to reptiles and birds. They have pushed an estimated 27 species to extinction and are a threat to 100 surviving native species, especially small marsupials and ground-dwelling birds.
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Post by Maura on Jun 30, 2023 16:49:19 GMT
So, are they doing anything to trap the cats?
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Post by bowdonkey on Jul 1, 2023 17:03:07 GMT
Go to www.ozbow.net. Open season,year round. Though it's only a spit in the ocean. |
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Post by bluemingidiot on Jul 4, 2023 0:03:48 GMT
So, are they doing anything to trap the cats? "There are approximately 700,000 urban stray cats in Australia. There are up to 5.6 million feral cats in natural areas. Feral cats can kill up to 3.2 million mammals a day." If they trapped these cats, where would they put them? |
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Post by Maura on Jul 4, 2023 15:48:04 GMT
In Florida they catch them and neuter them.
I imagine with that many cats they would euthanize the grown ones and adopt out the younger ones (spayed/neutered).
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Post by countrymom22 on Jul 19, 2023 21:31:39 GMT
Shoot, shovel and shut up would work, but who has the time to sit around and shoot at 5.6 million cats?
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Post by bluemingidiot on Jul 31, 2023 4:07:36 GMT
So, are they doing anything to trap the cats? Okay, you have 7.3 miilion feral cats. You have 4,000 traps that catch one cat every hour, 24/7, year round. It would take over 2 years to catch all the cats. We euthanize 4 million cats. Euthanizing ten cats and hour, ten hours day, 250 days a year, at 20 locations would be 500,000 cats a year. Spay/neuter five cats an hour, ten hours a day, 250 days a year, at 20 locations would be 250,000 cats a year. Now, do you want to cremate or bury the cats? And would you be paying for all this with check or credit card? If credit card, there will be a 3% surcharge. |
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Post by Maura on Aug 1, 2023 15:08:16 GMT
Perhaps you misunderstood my post. I did not say Australia must trap the cats. I asked if they were going to.
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Post by bluemingidiot on Dec 13, 2023 3:34:47 GMT
Sorry. No. They are going to put out poison.
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Post by bluemingidiot on Dec 13, 2023 3:36:24 GMT
The problem is greater than just feral cats.
"A study published on Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications found that free-ranging domestic cats (including feral ones) eat more than 2,000 species, raising renewed concerns about the ecological fallout. Almost half of the species were birds, followed by reptiles and mammals. An unexpected number of insects were found, including monarch butterflies, pink-spotted hawk moths and emperor dragonflies."
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