This is serious. Should cats be hunted?

I say no.

Thousands Attend Cat Hunt Meetings
Opponents Say Hunting Cats Won't Help Declining Song Bird Populations

Hundreds showed up at Wisconsin Conservation Congress meetings around the state Monday, many to voice their opinion on a proposal to allow hunting of free-roaming cats.

Outdoor enthusiasts gathered for spring hearings in every county to vote on hunting and fishing through the Wisconsin Conservation Congress. The results get forwarded to the state Natural Resources Board. Statewide results were expected Tuesday. The proposal was one of several dozen part on the agenda of the annual meeting.

About 2,000 showed up in Dane County at the Alliant Center. Cat hunt opponents said that hunting cats is not going to fix any problems with declining song bird populations. "Although feral cats may contribute the problem, the destruction and loss of habitat is far and away the primary reason for the loss of song birds, gamebirds and other birds," on opponent said.

http://www.themilwaukeechannel.com/news/4370131/detail.html

I'll be at the head of the line to buy one of THOSE licenses....:nuke:

do its job?

what a world

...they equip the homeless cats with Laser Beams!

Can't I even get fricken' cats with fricken' laser beams?

http://www.goodeatsfanpage.com/Humor/Music/cats_in_the_kettle.htm

Did you ever think, when you eat Chinese
It ain't pork or chicken but a fat Siamese?
Yet the food tastes great, so you don’t complain.
But that’s not chicken in your chicken chow mein.
Seems to me I ordered sweet-and-sour pork
But Garfield’s on my fork.
He’s purrin’ here on my fork.

CHORUS
There’s a cat in the kettle at the Peking Moon
The place that I eat every day at noon.
They can feed you cat and you’ll never know
Once they wrap it up in dough, boy.
They fry it real crisp in dough.

Chou Lin asked if I wanted more
As he was dialin’ up his buddy at the old pet store.
I said "Not today. I lost my appetite.
There’s two cats in my belly and they want to fight."
I was suckin’ on a Rolaid and a Tums or two
When I swear I heard it mew, boys.
And that is when I knew.

CHORUS
There’s a cat in the kettle at the Peking Moon
I think I gotta stop eatin’ there at noon.
They say that it’s beef or fish or pork
But it’s purrin’ there on my fork.
There’s a hair-ball on my fork.

Or technically some guy named "Manic Larry Baker" did, but it's from the Bob Rivers/Twisted Radio archives.

http://www.bobrivers.com/audiovault/tunes/tunes.asp?Var=C

or is the blatantly illegal copy I have on my iPod wrongly titled...something to look into, I guess...

I've been looking for that song for years. I like to sing the part about the "Fat Siamese" to Pad Thai.

When I was in University, I had separated my relationship with my abusive parents, and was living on campus, not even visiting home for the holidays. Because of this, I was still on campus after the term had ended. I recall walking around the student apartments and being just shocked about what these students had done. We're not talking about trashing the apartment. That happened so frequently that the cleaning staff carried canisters of spackle with their carts.

What horrified me was that the day of their last final, or whenever they'd chosen to exit the school, it appeared as if the rapture had occured. Every door was open because the apartments were cleaned at the same time, so it looked like people had been body-snatched in the middle of meals, shower, watching television. Water was on, meals still hot were on the table, and possessions galore had been abandoned. Most dismaying was kittens would poke their tiny heads out of the apartments, having been abandoned by the student who'd adopted them. They were rounded up, taken to the shelter, and, due to the number of animals, almost certainly euthanized.

It made me want to find the spoiled frat chick/dude who'd dumped their lives for others to clean up and graft the cat onto their body, I was so angry! For God's sake, it's a living being, not a plush toy to be hurled aside when you are done!

You eat it -- 'cept bugs and mice. Thats just gross!

years ago and I swear to God there was not one iota of difference between these two homeless cats and any other I bought in pet stores,etc. They took immediately to their litter boxes, were very well behaved, sweet and affectionate.
Homeless cats are victims of a-holes who throw them out or created a situation where non "fixed" cats could procreate further.

and I'd rather have the cats than rats...the cats provide a service of keeping control of the rats and mice in the cities. I've adopted several outdoor cats in my lifetime, and once they realize there is no danger, they have become very loving pets, not even wanting to run outside when the door is open...I have two now, that were rescued by a neighbor in her wood pile and brought to me 10 years ago, they don't leave my side, when I sit or lay down, they are right their with me, they listen to direction and are the best cats I've had, while my blue point, which a friend BOUGHT and found she was allergic to and gave to me, is a terror and always trying to run outside.

This is another embarrassment for our state, first the making of a hard-on an illegality, than the killing of doves, now the cats...this state sometimes sucks, when these conservatives set out to make an issue of something....

than shooting the cats.

Here in SF we have a very aggressive spay/neuter program and policy. Our SPCA has volunteers that go out and trap entire feral communities and then bring them in for spaying/neutering. This has been going on for some years now and is VERY successful in bringing down the feral numbers rather quickly. Additionally, they take animals that the City's animal control has picked up and rehabs them for adoption. We also have loads of low cost spay/neuter clinics available for pet owners that helps keep cat numbers down in general.

If WI has the will to do it, there is a way that is humane and successful.

give the cats kitty size ak-47s. let the hunt be mutual.

At one time, this level of cruelty was unimaginable. And no, there's nothing funny about the situation (not even if you put it in a song). Dress it up any way you want, it's just bloodlust.

If the problem were really that far out of hand, it would be matter for animal control officers. Not for guys who kill only for fun.

Yes, I know some hunters. They enjoy the whole process but manage to feed people with the results of the hunt.