We have finally caught sight of Woodsman. Here’s a picture of him at his computer. We like to call him Woody cuz his head is full of sawdust. He is doing some intensive research. It won’t help him, though.
My thanks to Ruth aka Kattaddorra for spotting him.
For visitors unfamiliar with Woody, he likes to shoot and kill cats and his reasons are entrenched in the ice age. Find Woodsman.
Maybe it has sunk into his single brain cell that every time he makes a comment on PoC he is contributing 5 cents to the welfare of the very creatures he hates.
I can imagine this really irking him!
Well said Gail. At first I thought he was a lunatic American with a rifle shooting hundreds of cats. There are people a bit like that. However, over time, I have also come to believe that he is basically a troll. He just likes to wind people up. So it could all be fiction.
I have to say that since I published all the IP addresses, email addresses and usernames he used on PoC, he has not come back. I don’t know if that is significant. It might imply he was upset and concerned about what I did. That would imply he was scared of being caught, which in turn might imply he was actually shooting cats. I don’t know.
He is certainly unhinged.
Anyway, thanks for the excellent comment.
Someone in my feral cat group has done some sleuthing on this character, and what she found piqued my interest. I’ve perused a number of his insane rantings and have found out that he uses (and brags about using) an anonymous proxy server, which explains the numerous IP addresses.
He has also concocted some really strange tales, such as one female (something, but he doesn’t say what kind of animal) and her pups came to him for succor after the “hundreds” of cats on his “lands” (rather British term, I think) destroyed all her normal prey, so she and her pups (of whatever species) were starving and somehow “knew” that this crazed lunatic who had been out there firing away at cats for days on end would help her (yeah, right…an animal would know that a gun-toting lunatic would NEVER try to shoot HER.)
Supposedly, he nursed her and her pups back to health, and now all sorts of animals show up at his place to show him their newborn (whatevers, since he doesn’t specify) and to inform their pups that “here is safety away from those horrendous cats.”
He also claims that he has had all sorts of native wildlife (again, not specifying what kinds) lolling about in his yard (at one time there were sixty animals with their young just lazing in the grass) and he even stepped on the paw of one of the “cubs” as he tried to step over the multitude of bodies resting there.
He also claims that he breeds field mice in his house so that he can release them to replenish the normal fauna.
I have a strong feeling that this lunatic does not live in the US (often uses non-American terminology) and that he simply gets his jollies by concocting bizarre tales of his prowess with a rifle. He does obviously hate cats, but I’m not sure that his rantings are anything more than the unhinged postings of a raving lunatic who gets off on stirring up trouble.
I certainly hope that he is just some idiot sitting in a tiny apartment somewhere boasting and bragging about not only killing any cats that dared to step on his “lands” but also spreading fish oil along roadsides to lure cats to his “lands” where he has infrared cameras set up so that he can use his laser-equipped rifle to gun them down as they are lured to the bait by following the fish oil trail.
If this guy actually does what he claims he does, then he should be locked away from normal society before he crosses the line and starts shooting cat-loving human prey.
Thanks Jade. I do ignore 90% of what he writes (and delete it) but on occasion I can’t resist having some fun. So the reason why I did the page was to have fun. Not a bad reason.
Good grief. What good would it do? Would it reduce the population of feral cats (the real problem at hand…right?), no. Would it reduce animal cruelty, no. There are people doing things far more cruel than lethally shooting cats, I’m afraid. Would it teach him a lesson, no. Will he magically see the light and come to the TNR you promote, no. So why bother? Once you stop giving him all this attention, it stops becoming fun. By posting and posting and posting about him, his message inevitably reaches more people. If you want to have an effect, carry on and ignore him.
Absolutely right and it is about time he was caught. The thing is he may be several people all using different names and email accounts and IP addresses and so on. A bunch of goons arsing around shooting cats and bragging about it.