The city of Blue Mountains in Australia is surrounded by a national park. There are special rules in the city and environs about outside cats preying on wildlife because wildlife in that area is particularly important to the local authority. Cats preying on wildlife can be legally trapped and placed in a shelter or returned to their owner.
However, residents of the area are reporting that 65 cats have gone missing. One woman found her cat strung up under the branch of a tree; basically hanged. Another woman found her cat strung up by a leg. The cat was alive but has a permanent limp. Many others wait for the return of their cat.
To all intents and purposes there is strong circumstantial evidence indicating that there are vigilantes roaming around the streets of Blue Mountains killing outside cats at will and doing it in an overt and sadistic way to send a message to cat owners. Despite this the local council has not received any complaints about missing cats and neither has the RSPCA. This is extraordinary because residents are talking amongst themselves about missing cats and talking to the press about it while those charged with enforcing the law haven’t heard about it.
There is obviously a massive disconnect between the citizens and the authorities. Either that or the council is being less than honest. I suspect that they do know about it and don’t mind if it continues. These are multiple crimes being ignored.
My reading of the story indicates that the city of Blue Mountains is a place where the greatest proportion of people who hate cats live. If that is true then it also contains the greatest proportion of cat owners who are neglectful and careless with their cats because they let them roam outside in full knowledge that there are vigilantes out there killing them. Then they complain about their missing cats. That’s equally extraordinary in my opinion.
I have dictated this from memory because the source of the story is The Daily Telegraph in Australia but I can’t access the page again without paying a subscription. Therefore I cannot return to the story for verification. However, as mentioned, the surprising aspect of it is the very large number of cats going missing, cat owners continuing to let their cats go outside and thirdly neither the police, the RSPCA, nor the local authority know anything about it. It’s anarchy.
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You fly your true colors with the vermin cat comment. Tell me do you advocate the same treatment for loose dogs ?
I believe that Michael pointed out that pet owners were largely responsible for their pets death or injury for letting the roam in the first place.
As stated previous I don’t care for dogs but my hatred is really directed at their lousy negligent human owners therefore I don’t take my aggression out on innocent animals. I don’t attack humans either but rather go through the frustrating process of using the law to remedy the situation.
Cat hate is deeper than just hating cats it is a socially acceptable hate. I loath dogs but mostly keep it to myself as dog lovers can go bonkers if you so much as mention you don’t care for their slobbering barking clingy needy smelly furbaby. I also respect the rights of others despite my personal preferences and don’t go about harming their loose or noise generating beast but instead have , though it was a struggle, worked within the confines of the law to resolve the issue.
Finding a tame cat and no one is likely to grab a feral cat and hang it is an outlet for sadistic behaviors that have nothing to do with cats. Only sick people torture an animal. I’ll repeat that. Only sick people torture an animal.
People need to wise up and keep their cats at home and teach them to walk on leads or build secure enclosures.
Human nature does not operate in a vacuum anyone capable of the kinds of cruelty mentioned would not hesitate to transfer it onto helpless vulnerable human victims.
AC does little to help the feral cat population in ANY country. Cats are at the bottom of the resource ladder in every shelter I have ever been it.
As quoted in a movie that I never finished watching a man opens a door and a cat hisses at him the other man said what’s wrong with the cat, the reply, it’s a cat.
Silence makes the authorities here complicit and just as guilty as the subhumans carrying the kitty genocide.
Stop letting your cat roam. At the same time no one should fear that their cat be killed for slipping out or other circumstances where they might escape. You humane trap and fine the owners. You don’t kill the cat.
Then you’ve clearly answered everyone’s questions.
You don’t really care about the lives of cats at all. You only care how you can manipulate and control others through the use of your 100%-expendable animal-sacrifices. You know perfectly well that nobody in the world can be convicted of killing cats if they use the SSS and TDSS cat-management programs that are the most popular methods today (shoot, shovel, shut-up; and trap, drown, shovel, shut-up). No laws in the world will stop people from killing your vermin cats today by any means. Just like no laws in the world will ever turn you into responsible and respectable adults and pet-owners. But you already know this. That’s why you want to place the blame on the rest of the world instead of the blame’s rightful owners — yourselves.
So be it then — more sacrificial dead and mutilated cats that you can use for click-bait for your site. How could you survive without them? You couldn’t.
After all, that’s the only thing that really matters to you and your kind, isn’t it.
Well, if the police were doing their job they would carry out option number one by arresting them. But as the police are not doing their job they won’t do it. The answer is to tackle both options at the same time. But that did not occur to you because you are a cat hater. If you had read my article completely you will see that I found it very surprising that these cat owners did not keep their cats inside. Therefore I do not know why you are trolling me because I recommend that people keep their cats confined but in the best possible way. So for example, where there is enough space they should have outdoor garden enclosures in order to provide a cat with a decent lifestyle and some stimulation.
But please don’t write to me in your high-handed manner; in your arrogant way trying to lecture me. I dislike it. It is unpleasant. If you do it again I’ll ban you, you shit.
This word gets worse and worse. God help the good people and all creatures in the years and decades to come.
It appears that you all have 2 and only 2 choices.
1. Convince everyone to stop shooting, poisoning, beheading, and hanging your 100%-expendable cats for you.
2. Convince all cat-owners to be responsible and respectable adults who actually value the lives of their cats and keep them home and safe from all harms.
Which of those only 2 options do you think you’ll have any success at? You’ll never stop option 1, that’s going to go on as long as there are free roaming cats that nobody cares how they die, not even the owners care how they die. Do you think you can solve the problem with option 2? Complaining about option 1 isn’t going to change a damn thing. There’s over 130 million stray cats now in the USA that also have to die, no matter how they die. Everyone knows this now.
I suggest you start working on campaign number 2. It’s your only option if you don’t want to read about shot, poisoned, beheaded, and hanged cats every day of your lives for the rest of your lives.