Images of Canberra/Catblogging

I dont like birds so I’m happy for the cats to kill them.

LG (just using a Bonfire/Vic argument)

Maelinar, high stock losses equals less tax liability….

Fashion accessories are for divas.

All cats are not the same anyway. Just as different dog breeds are different. I had a persian cat that hardly ever left the house, and never killed a single thing.
My current cat wages war on rats – which is bad when I have to see the results, but I’m glad she is eradicating them.

If you want to shoot people, just do it. Don’t worry about excuses like they don;t like cats or theire pets went feral, just lock, load and go nuts. tell the judge you were having a psychotic episode and everything will be just fine.

Wasn’t implying you are an unbloke more that certain breeds/cross breeds are more fashion accessories than animals which behave in a doglike fashion.

hey JB were any of them feral people prowling around at night eating skinks, lizards and birds? If so got any pics?

Hey KaneO, I’ll be the first to stand up say my cat isnt perfect, he has attacked one or 2 common type birds in his time, but parrots still come to feed in our yard without generally being harrassed by the cat. I also have an avary housing cockatiels, some smallish type parrots and some budgies, hes rather used to having them now and isnt all that fussed by them!
I do what I can to keep him from harming other animals but I’m certainly not going to keep him locked up during the day as I do at night!

I think shoot owners of any pets who let them get feral.

Samoyed x poodle was saved by me from death – a noble enough reason to own a dog. Choice was not a factor – but I have grown to love my “sammy”

So im not a bloke for not owning a pig dog or like – who gives a flying fuck, not me

P.S. Kerces love the picture… cute kitty!

Hey instead of hating cats, lets hate those that have let them go feral, breed and run off into the bush!
Thats where the problem with cats has started, by irresponsible owners!

I have a gorgeous fluffy grey and white kitty, that wears 2 bells and a name tag, who is fed morning and night, let inside of an afternoon for a cuddles and then is put into his massive cat cage on our back porch for the night with toys and a hammock to sleep in.
If only others were as responsible!

In a medium density apartment block populated by feral humans, feral pigeons, and feral rats it seems particularly stupid to worry about a feral cat.

Your poor bugger, why not get a dog instead? A Samoyed/poodle X is a fashion accessory.

I know what the 50 mil referred to, not my fault you write sentences open to wilful misinterpretation. Incidentally, the quoted 50 mil is for wild (feral) dogs, which by definition don’t have a owner.

Is stating you want to shoot people who dislike cats an example of rational or irrational?

• The fox accounts for $227 million in losses a year.

This figure is misrepresentative. $227 million divided by $25 (the cost of a sheep) is 9,080,000 sheep deaths, yeah right. The countryside would be littered with carcasses.

• The rabbit costs farmers $113 million – plausable.

• The annual bill from feral pigs is about $107 million – plausable

• Cats don’t cost the farmers directly but they’ve sent 19 native species of mammals to the brink of extinction at a total cost of $144 million.

How many of these species of mammals were being farmed for profit ? How is it that these mammals are now costing $144 million ?

However it is plausable that this figure is being misrepresented by rehabilitation measures aimed at improving native habitat, this should not be confused as being caused by felines however.

• Wild dogs kill up to $50 million worth of livestock a year. – 2 million stock deaths based upon previous calculations – improbable as well, however it begs the question, what are the farmers doing about it given the high stock loss ratio ? (the answer of course is nothing – they are waiting for the Government to hold them by their hands).

pfft no point trying to rationalise with the irrational.

Wakey wakey

The 50mil was not for each individual dog.

For the record I own a samoyed x poodle

‘domestic cat’ is an oxymoron.

I think dog owners, even bogan irresponsible ones would notice if 50 mil worth of dead stock appeared in the backyard over the course of a year.
The fact that some dogs are evil does not excuse the fact that all cats are evil and should be kept in a cage.

i like dogs as well but they do rip the face off a child every now and then.

all domestic cat haters stand in a line behind eachother. – I dont want to waste any bullets.

I wonder how many cat haters have dogs that cause 50 mil worth of stock deaths a year – but thats ok – dogs are not cats.

One thing I have noticed about cat owners is that it’s never *their* cat that kills wildlife. It’s always someone else’s cat.
Cat’s don’t damage the environment – they simply kill everything they can get their claws into.
Catch a suburban cat and gut it, you might be surprised as to its stomach contents. (was that tinned or wild parrot I wonder)

Perhaps bonfire, that’s because cats have trouble catching mice (or even moving for that matter) once you’ve shot them with your .177…

i watched cats do NOTHING during a mouse plague in shepparton a few years ago.

This an excerpt from channel Nines Sunday program about the cost of feral animals on agriculture. I love how the cat doesn’t cost farmers anything but they still slipped it in there as a cost on wildlife. Using the same method I wonder what the cost of agriculture is on wildlife?

The impact of feral species on Australian agriculture and native fauna is estimated at $720 million a year.
• The fox accounts for $227 million in losses a year.
• The rabbit costs farmers $113 million
• The annual bill from feral pigs is about $107 million
• Cats don’t cost the farmers directly but they’ve sent 19 native species of mammals to the brink of extinction at a total cost of $144 million.
• Wild dogs kill up to $50 million worth of livestock a year.

http://sunday.ninemsn.com.au/sunday/cover_stories/article_1996.asp?s=1

I wonder if there is cost benefit to agriculture as cats eat rabbits, mice, rats etc?

and cows and landfill and humans and and and….

Yeah, and while we’re all so busy getting rid of cats because of their impact on native wildlife, let’s ban cars, planes, buses, trucks too.

fat cat eh – could come live with me – 2 fat cats sittin on teh couch drinkin and watchin sport – Mrs Danman would love that.

cats are just animals (that I quite like, but prefer dogs in general)… in the wild they should be treated like other introduced pests…

*sulks* I want a kitty

i hadn’t read the other comments to this post before i put my own above.

i really don’t understand cat-haters. but then again, i don’t have below average IQ.

this particular moggy i know well, i used to live in that complex! last week i was there for a body corporate meeting and said hello to him sitting at that very spot.

he used to have scraps with my cat. she always came off second-best, one time even requiring a trip to the vet with a bite that almost went completely through her foot!

discussion
no plural

p.s the little cat up in the balcony is very cute

who woulda thought some piccies of some pussies would have provoked so much passionate discussions???

No problem with cats or red necks – they are both born with a lead deficiency…

Thumper – I concur – They can walk the streets in suburbia – but ferals are a real problem – and negligent owners are a real problem.

ah, good times. The trick is to give the fence line a good boundary of white pepper, puts them right off. Mind you, they have to walk over it…..

Forget I said anything.

blah blah blah

any cat that strays outside its owners property boundary is a feral cat and will be dealt with appropriately.

you dont see too many in my neighbourhood btw.

Not all cats are feral native wildlife varmints.

Seems like you’re wasting perfectly decent breathing air bonfire – better use that gun on yourself lest we all have a global crisis.

Ill be happy to help you.

great. more feral wildlife killers. they look so cute with parrot feathers and blood on them.

thsi photo merely indicates that cat owners really dont give a fuck.

because they are soooo cute.

where is a .177 ackley when you need it.

He sure does wear a bell, and I saw one on the other cat too. And if you had half the pigeon problem there is round his place, you’d be pleased something was dealing with the rats on wings.

Vic you tosser, look at the picture. It HAS a fucking bell.

You guys want nicer stuff and less bitching and whinging and then this is how you react?

Burn in hell.

I nominate this shot for the 2007 Feral Photography Walkley Award. To be presented by the ‘feral’ Glenn Milne – who else?
(If only he’d worn a bell around his neck, Stephen Mayne would’ve heard him coming…)

get over it – your 4wds and red neck trail biker friends do more damage to our native wildlife.

hell I could fart and do more damage to the environment than any of the cats that my friends have.

Another ‘responsible’ cat owner keeping their pets under control.

Wasn’t that was Dr Suez?

As someone once said, I like cats, they make nice hats 🙂

There’s a special place in hell for people who don’t like cats.

I hope you both enjoy it.

Where’s the pic of the stinking feral after you swung a lump of wood at its head?

At least that cat has a tag on it’s neck, which is something I guess.

It needs a bell.

The bell is a small attempt at signalling to native wildlife that a killer is on it’s way – fly or run away.

Cats should be confined 24×7.