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Catsledding
What do we do with all of these feral cats? | |
Since the first Dutch vessels were shipwrecked here in the 1600s there has been a feral cat problem in this country.
I like cats, so I don't like the idea of killing them. However, leaving them in the wild means they are destroying many of our unique animal and bird and reptile species, at an alarming
rate.
The plan is to round 'em up and put 'em in harness, to utilise them in an environmentally conscious way.
To get them moving really well we just play a recording of a large, ferocious dog, chasing them.
During the day, while you're at work, they all curl up in a sunny spot and sleep it off, waiting for the run home.
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....but so long as the large knot of
screaming furballs rolls in the right
direction, yes? |
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I'm not quite sure where the environmentally conscious bit comes in. And can you really think of many reptile species that are worth keeping? |
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When they become extinct it is a sad thing. Small, inoffensive lizards don't deserve to be devoured by an introduced pest. |
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I thought this was going to be about making sleds out of cats. because it isnt... - |
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Can't you teach the cats to catch the rabbits? |
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I love the idea of catsledding. We could
have a Catiterod in Alaska, and maybe a
books called White Claw, and the Mew
of the Wild, and of course, for those
with lesser tastes, Disney could make
Snow Cats. (Though I personally would
boycott it.). |
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[hidden] //And can you really think of
many reptile species that are worth
keeping?// |
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Me, a biologist? Well, all of them, in my
less-than-humble opinion. And
especially the venomous species.
(Besides, would you rather be overrun
with plague-carrying rodentia?) |
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[DrCurry] //Can't you teach the cats to
catch the rabbits?// |
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I had a rabbit once that chased cat . . .
Hmmm . . . Rabbitsledding? |
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and if it didn't work would it be a catastrophe? + |
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//To get them moving really well we just
play a recording of a large, ferocious dog,
chasing them.// |
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Why not strap an actual large ferocious
dog in the harness too, at the back? |
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Because you have to have somewhere to keep him while the cats are sleeping, [Trickytracks]. |
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[DC], I suppose they eat the occasional rabbit but I think they find it easier to clean up the skinks and smaller dasyurids (small marsupial carnivores), edging out the larger ones, such as quolls and native cats. Quolls are so rare and shy that I've never actually seen one in the wild, despite having lived in their habitat range for the first 17 years of my life. |
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