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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“Animals Killed by Cats vs. Wind-Turbines”
Maybe these graphs will make things a little clearer for the uneducated and ineducable cat-hoarders that are destroying all lives in their communities.
Add promoting a man-made predator like cats into human behavior and those humans who promote cats are now killing all native wildlife around the whole planet on the order of nearly 1000X’s more than those humans who don’t promote cats. You can’t blame all other reasons on everyone else. You are also the cause of those, plus you torture to death billions of animals yearly with your cats. In the lower-48 states of the USA alone, you are torturing to death 2.4 billion (2,400 million) birds and 12.3 billion (12,300 million) other animals to death YEARLY. That’s 6.6 MILLION birds PER DAY and 33.7 MILLION other animals PER DAY. You are, without any doubt left in the known universe, the MOST despicable and destructive humans anywhere on earth. And then you wonder why everyone else on earth hates and despises every last one of you.
“Drivers of Bird Declines”
No Woody is a garden variety troll who hates cats and uses the fact that cats will kill birds as an excuse to vent his internal mental issues to kill something.
Lots of things kill birds. Humans are at the top of the list.
Thank you. This sentiment is expressed by mentally healthy people instead of vigilante forays into the dark of night to murder cats or trolling on internet sites where the current troll has found a perch to roost on and try to stir the pot.
You reek of troll. You twist facts and have severe reading comprehension issues.
Well, I think you are wrong! He hates cats because they kill birds. He is an ornithologist. He lives by the sea in Galveston. He is a bird lover. He shoots feral cats.