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Feline Friends Come Under Fire in Wisconsin
A proposal that would allow hunters in Wisconsin to shoot and kill feral cats is causing, well, a hissy fit (According to a Reuter's press release - found on MSNBC).
According to the MSNBC article, The Wisconsin cat proposal would reclassify free roaming, domestic feral cats as an "unprotected species" that could then be shot by anyone with a license to hunt small game. The rationale is that wild cats prey on songbirds in disproportionate numbers.
Opposition to the Wisconsin law is coming in "from all over the country according to Adam Bauknecht, a Wisconsin cat-lover, who along with others has put up a Wisconsin-based Web site calling attention to the issue.
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The site — www.dontshootthecat.com — drew 35,000 hits on Monday alone and has received more than 800 e-mails since it was activated three days ago, Bauknecht told Reuters on Tuesday.
I remember that my dad was always aware ofcats and dogs that sprayed and left droppings in our yard. In fact, if memory serves me right, there was always a Daisy brand BB gun handy for"chaing them varmints off the property."
But open season? Anyone with a small game license?
Probably not quite what the Wisconsin Legislature had in mind when they started the paperwork to purge those free-roaming felines from the state.
I did see some facts and figures that estimated a 60 cats per square mile density. That's a lotof . . . cats!
The backlash from animal lovers and pro-PETA followers will be more than enough to stop the potential carnage.
But I did go online at www.Michigan.gov . . . just to see what a small game licese actually costs these days. It's $15 per year for adults and Seniors (65+) is just $6.00 annually.
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