Hello Andrew
I read your comment and I wanted to respond.
I do respect your opinion and you as a person who appears to be troubled by this problem which is nation wide not just in your area.
Yes, I am a pet lover of cats and all animals, all species (by the way, I never heard of FERAL HOGS) but admit they may exist.
However, the point I am making here is that ALL animals deserve to be humanely euthanized if there is no other way to bring the problem under control.
If there is not any groups in your area that handles feral colony's of cats then the humane thing to do would be to have the ferals trapped and euthanized. Shooting them on site is in-humane and not legal in many states.
I do take offense when you call these feral cats BEASTS when it is NOT their faults that way back in their bloodline, some HUMAN did not spay or neuter their pet.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion on this subject as well as other subjects but my thinking is this.
If a problem exist, then seek proper HUMANE results to take care of it and seek to support laws in your area to make sure pet owners spay and neuter their pets (especially the outdoor ones) to make sure that down the road this problem does not continue.
Blaming the animals is a cop out when in fact it is the HUMANS who have failed to do what is necessary to make sure this problem does not get out of hand by failing to spay/neuter.
I live in a small area where there are about 300 feral cats roaming the hillside.
This is a result of people dropping litters of unwanted kittens that THEIR own outdoor cats have given birth to several times a year because they are not FIXED.
These are NOT MY cats to have fixed but instead of taking a rifle and shooting the cats, I seek out groups who are willing to spay/ neuter and vaccinate these animals and humanly euthanize the sickly ones to bring the problem under control.
Just last week I took 7 cats who are NOT mine to be fixed and vaccinated at a low cost clinic locally. this is a slow process and no, I dont have to do it if I didnt want to but I feel I need to step in and work to bring the problem under control instead of just SHOOTING them and waiting for the next unwanted litter to be born only to be shot!
Pardon my view and straight forward way of speaking but I would be afraid to live n a town who allow their "Gun happy" residents to go out and shoot cats on site just because they think of them as BEASTS or nuisances.
Next thing you know they will be allowed to shoot Homeless people just because they are a growing number and considered to be a nuisance to some people in some areas.
I hope some residents in your town decide to do the right thing and seek animal groups to come in and help with your problem there.
If not, some poor child will come home from school one day only to find his or her pet cat shot to death, mistaken for a feral.
SAD INDEED!
Mar 16, 2010 Rating
RE: by: Anonymous
Hello Mary in North Carolina.
Andrew in Rolla Missouri here.
I live in the area in question and while I've never met the gentleman in the video, I have to say I agree with him. There is a huge feral cat problem in Rolla. There's a group of about 10 cats that wander around my yard all the time and live in the shed of the vacant house next to mine. Any time I walk in my yard there is either feces (which can spread disease, or I get flea bites (which again, spreads disease). These animals are a nuisance and none of these pansy ass "solutions" are working.
It's time we put human wellbeing over the wellbeing of these beasts and swiftly eliminate the problem.
If shooting is a good enough solution for feral hogs, then it's a good enough solution for feral cats. Just because some people have cats as a pet and therefore have an emotional attachment to the entire species is irrelevant.
