Should there be a BOUNTY on feral cats ?

[NTSOG]

Wanneroo: "A lot of the farmers around here shoot, shovel and shut up."

I like that!

By the way in what state do you live and are there differences from one state to the next?

Jim

[Ziege]

Only good one is a dead one, as for the owners who let them roam they need belting across the face. The level of narcissism involved in thinking that your right is to let a feral introduced pest roam around the environment is sociopathic

[Bugman]

When i bought my land about 40 years ago and started to build my house, the builder complained of feral cats hanging around. I set traps and over a period of around 6 months I had caught (from memory) around 14........all died of lead poisoning. To date...none have returned and the surrounding areas has built up considerably.
I have cats, BUT all are in door and never go outside. If any stray cat wonders onto my property, the trap(s) are set and those caught go to the local vet to check for icro chipping. If a chip is found I leave the cat with the vet and they contact the owner WHO has to pay to get their cat back.
If no chip is found, the animal goes to the local pound.
As for a bounty on feral cats...................yes! How much, I don't know.

[Oldbloke]

If you don't spot light they are hard to find. I've never whistled one in yet. Shot a couple years ago.

[Blr243]

I’m sure during the day or night we don’t see 15 for every one that we do see because of vegetation

[Ricochet]

I'm out in the bush and have approval from my land Lord to nail any fox , cat, pig or whatever feral is stupid enough to stand still long enough for me to line up on it.
Any cat outdoors fair game collar or not, if you do get one mums the word.

[Oldbloke]

I’m sure during the day or night we don’t see 15 for every one that we do see because of vegetation

So, I pretty much came to that conclusion about Sambar years ago. And i think your right, applies to most game.

That's why, walk little, look a lot.

[Grandadbushy]

If the government and the greens were serious about feral animals they would put a bounty on all feral animals regardless of what they were but as usual good decisions go under the radar when votes are involved so we will be talking about this for a long time yet some states turn a blind eye but some of those states refuse to allow shooters into the SF to shoot some restrict what you can shoot, hence breeding ground for feral animals , this culling back is BS because in another 3-4yrs you are doing it all over again at a big cost to the tax payer , a feral non indigenous to Australia has no right to be running in the wild especially if it causes the demise of indigenous animals .I don't get any bounty where I am because our last big brave mayor removed it from council because she thought the money could be spent else where , ''YEP'' $600,000 for a monument you could put in a 7x4 box trailer and cart away, and the artist was unbeknown to anyone never heard of her , so needless to say she was ousted at the next local election but the bounty paper was never reintroduced and the wild dogs have moved into the suburbs causing havoc ,I and our member for our shire have tried to get the bounty reintroduced but no go . SO to your question yes I think strongly that cats should have a bounty on them, and cats are like pet snakes you can't tell the difference between a pet and wild unless they are kept home.

[Blr243]

In the super long grass I can only see the heads of Roos when they are vertical. Everything else is safe

[trekin]

The Shire bordering ours has a $10 bounty on feral cats, for some years now. After trapping, and disposing of about 30 feral cats in the last 3 years around our house (10 since the new year, with five of those caught within a hour of each other) I have put it to our council to look into a bounty here as well. Put it to the council that as it is State law that all domestic cats here in QLD are to be micro chipped, and has been for nigh on 20 years now. Shoot a cat in rual areas of the Shire, ten bucks bounty on presentation to animal control officer. Trap a cat in residentual areas, have the animal control officer scan for chip (told the council that I would donate the scanner if they wanted), no chip:- $10 bounty, chipped:- fine the owner to help recover the costs of the bounty system. Mayor seemed keen, but haven't heard anything back yet.

[Ziege]

I used to live in what will remain an undisclosed location in suburbia, I had 3 cat traps in my yard, always set and almost routinely every few days catch at least two cats, used to return them at the beginning, but after the bulls**t piss weak efforts of rangers and the complete lack of consequences for the cat owners I just started giving them the shark cage experience for 10 mins each time I caught one, was way better than dealing with all the pointless revolving door bulls**t. I caught one cat 11 times before I decided it was time to end it's existence, each of the 11 times the cat was taken to the vet, chip read, owner called and returned, the Indian family it was from were rude and obnoxious every time, accusing me of hunting their cat, after being repeatedly not punished for their stray animal, and me having lost at least half a dozen rare finches to the slimy piece of s**t harassing my birds, enough was enough.

After that I decided to hell with it, every cat that came into the yard died, even the nextdoor neighbours cats cos screw em. I've ever since been dead against anyone having cats at all.

It's all too clear to me that cat owners are ignorant and belligerent, at least by in large, and I have exactly 0 tolerance for any cat I see outdoors.

[snag]

Well, I personally love cats. Couldn't eat a whole one but ....

[womble]

Oh dear. You always paint a very interesting picture of your experiences Ziege

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UQeRN3UJyMY

[Harrynsw]

It wouldn't hurt, it would definitely make them more of a target. 1 cat = 700+ dead prey items a year.

[marksman]

of course there should be

[wanneroo]

Wanneroo: "A lot of the farmers around here shoot, shovel and shut up."

I like that!

By the way in what state do you live and are there differences from one state to the next?

Jim

Pennsylvania. There could be differences state to state but I think overall feral cats are protected across most of the USA as domestic animals, so exterminating them would fall under animal abuse.

[wanneroo]

It's all too clear to me that cat owners are ignorant and belligerent, at least by in large, and I have exactly 0 tolerance for any cat I see outdoors.

It's funny the owners are usually just as obnoxious and destructive as their cats. The owners are a big part of the problem. Right now I don't know if the cats I have around the house belong to anyone or not, they have no collar.

[Ziege]

Shoot them and say nothing to no one

[NTSOG]

G'day,

While I was out looking for foxes a mile or so down the road last night - until the ground mist blocked all sight - the beggar in the photo turned up at my bait station. I came home and went out the back to have a look at the bait site, but could only sit and whistle at the back gate as there were two foxes looking for insects at about 150 yards +/- on the open paddocks across from me. The mist made getting a clear sight impossible, they didn't respond to my calling and there was no way for me to sneak across the open ground to get closer. As for the cat: no collar - not that it matters - and a new candidate for best dead cat of the month. No wonder that the vixen I've been after didn't stay long later in the evening; all the tucker was eaten.

Jim

[AJB]

[Blr243]

Does everybody agree that the abovmentioned, [above destroyed] cat has the most common coloration in our Aussie bush ?

[Ziege]

The old grey tabby is pretty common, around here there are a lot of black ones as well as that tortoise shell looking pattern, had a heap of ginger tabby cats at one point too

[Ricochet]

[quote="Ziege"]
I just started giving them the shark cage experience for 10 mins each time I caught one[ /quote]
I didn't know you could get scuba gear for cats, is it expensive?

[Oldbloke]

I've seen a fair few black ones. Little Panthers. Lol

[Blr243]

Yes it’s true. There are panthers in our bush Seen the young ones plenty of times But they hide when they grow up

[marksman]

another one bites the dust
good job Jim

[NTSOG]

Thanks Marksman. Moggie is now, in the immortal words of the Pythons, an 'ex cat'.

Jim

[AussieCapitalist]

Just supply the ammo and people will be keen to get out there. Every skin gets you a box of the required caliber.

[GQshayne]

I read a CSIRO article a while back on feral cats. I remember some info from it.

Estimated numbers are between 10 and 20 million in Australia.
They hunt for fun, not only food, so kill more than they eat.
They kill between 3 and 6 native animals a day each.

Think about those numbers a minute. Take the lower estimate of 10 million cats each killing 3 animals a day. That is thirty million animals per DAY.

Australia was quoted as having the highest extinction rate of any country on the planet. No wonder.

[Ziege]

Yep owning cats should be outlawed, all feral cats come from pets