Your psychotic cat-lover's extrapolation doesn't hold a drop of water. It is legal everywhere to shoot ANY ANIMAL showing signs of rabies.

Since nearly all cats now harbor deadly diseases to all and all wildlife, INCLUDING RABIES, I see no problem with all others shooting every one they see. Unless the owner has proof their cat is free of all diseases, and can provide that proof on demand, from a test done that day (lest their cat got infected earlier in the day) .... their cat deserves to die.

Are you even aware that more people have contracted rabies from house-cats than all other wildlife put together?

Whereas I had more of a problem with indoor mice when cats were around. The mice wanted off my land and into shelter. The stalking cats effectively herding the mice toward my home. Now that I have a nice stock of owls and gray foxes (which, by the way, are some of the best mousers in the world, they don't even eat poultry nor any other farm animals), my mice repeater-traps haven't seen a mouse since. Owls and gray foxes, unlike cats, have a better vantage point to catch and eat more mice than cats, without ending up just herding them from one place to another and into your homes. They also don't keep destroying all other wildlife (reptiles, etc.) even when they're full, as cats do. Cats just keep on killing and killing anything that moves no matter how well-fed they are. It was during the reign of cats that I started to catch all these indoor mice to use as a breeding stock. Raising them during the winters to release on the land in spring.

Show me proof that they are eaten by fox and coyote. Another lie told by cat-lovers. Reports coming out of Florida show that coyote won't even go near them. For the same reasons that none of the predators here will go near them. Do you know nothing about animal behavior? Bold stripes and patterns are a universal symbol to all wildlife EVERYWHERE, from insects, to all life in the ocean, to all life on land, that that animal is toxic or uses other hidden defense mechanisms. It's how animals have been able to remain in balance in the natural world. At least wildlife are honest with one another, unlike humans and their cats. The ONLY cat that I finally got some wildlife to eat was an all gray one. And then those unlucky animals promptly got ill and died from it. A whole family of opossum. I was so looking forward to watching the adults' and offsprings' antics the coming spring. If I had only known then what I do now about cats harboring diseases deadly to wildlife.

Go give someone else an excuse why you irresponsibly and disrespectfully (to all humans and to all wildlife) let your invasive species run rampant on the land. I for one am not buying your sorry song and dance.

As for the rest of you? Here's a little information to help you understand the behaviors of cat-lovers and their cats. Now you'll know exactly why cat-lovers do what they do. It really has nothing at all to do with their concern for cats, nor even the lives of anyone nor anything else, quite the opposite.

Human Territorial Behavior By Expendable Proxy

I have come to the inexorable conclusion that the vast majority of cat-lovers and cat-owners that let their destructive invasive-species roam free, and especially those that defend the rights of feral cats to overtake public property and wildlife areas, are only (cowardly) using cats as a proxy for their own territorial behavior. Not unlike uneducated inner-city youth that will disrespectfully and inconsiderately use loud music to stake-out a territory for themselves. As long as they can have one of their cats defecate in another's yard or destroy their property, animals, and wildlife; and the yard-owner not have any recourse; the cat-owner owns that territory. It's time to put a stop to them using their "cute kitty" excuse for usurping and stealing others' property. If they want territory they can damn well buy it just like anyone else. Instead they're using underhanded, disrespectful, and manipulative means. By putting (and sacrificing) live animals in the path of their envy and greed. Again proving why they don't care about cats nor anyone else at all. Cat-lovers only really want your yard, garden, or forest while making all others and all other animals suffer for what they can't have nor own. Bottom line--they want to control you and your property. That's ALL that "cat-lovers" are really after. It's why they don't care at all if their cat nor any other animals, nor even other humans, get harmed by their goals and (lack of) values in life.

For those of you who don't have any legal recourse to shoot cats in your area (like I do), then use the cat-management program that is popular worldwide. The SSS cat-program. Shoot, Shovel, & Shut-up. That solution is "legal" everywhere.

I'm not on this planet to win some little girl's popularity contest. You might, but I'm certainly not.

"You can't blow the dust away without making a lot of ignorant fools cough."

Bye!

I'll bet if you go back and check that all the cats with bold patterns and stripes have survived.

No animals that *should* be predators of cats will even go near them here. Bold stripes and patterns are a universal symbol to all wildlife EVERYWHERE, from insects, to all life in the ocean, to all life on land, that that animal is toxic or uses other hidden defense mechanisms. It's how animals have been able to remain in balance in the natural world. At least wildlife are honest with one another, unlike humans and their cats. It would take eons of adaptation before native species put them on their preferred prey list, and ONLY if cats all merged into one bland coat-pattern eventually, and ONLY if they didn't get sick from all the potentially deadly diseases that cats now carry too. Wildlife not eating cats might be the only thing that's saving wildlife from even faster mass-destruction by cats at this point.

When I tried to make use of cat-carcasses by trying to feed them to the wildlife here, they'd only go up and sniff it then run away from it. (Witnessed first-hand in my yard, I have many resident wild raccoons and foxes that will even take a treat out of my hand.) I first suspected they were sensing the deadly diseases in the cats, but knowing what I do about all wildlife and the nature-of-nature, I realized it was the cats' coat-coloring patterns that was causing this. They wouldn't eat them if alive or even dead. The ONLY cat any of them ever ate was all all-gray cat. Which is what made me finally realize why the wild animals here were reacting as they had. (Then those animals that ate that gray-cat carcass never came to my yard again. If only I had known then what I know now about the deadly diseases that cats carry, I would have never tried to feed cat-meat to any wild animal.)