This is the latest development in the war against cats by the authorities in either New Zealand or Australia. Any cat is in the firing line: domestic, stray or feral. There are many great cat owners and lovers in these countries but their elected lawmakers are paranoid about cats.
Auckland city councillors have come up with another cat killing scheme. Any cat caught without a microchip in a nature reserve will be killed to protect native species.
Around Auckland, the country’s largest city of 1.5m, there are five large ecologically sensitive areas. Cats found in these areas will be deemed to be pests and liable to be killed. It won’t matter if the cat is someone’s beloved pet. They’ll all be seen as pests even if they provide companionship to their human caretakers.
The authorities want to protect wildlife. We know this. They keep dreaming up different schemes but they have one common element: kill the cats.
There is no attempt to do something humane such as TNR. Or trap and return the cat to the owner if possible and then make microchipping and confinement mandatary.
They authorities say that cats kill native species such as kiwis. Apparently cats have contributed to the extinction of at least nine species of native bird. I don’t have details. I suspect that this is an exaggeration and I’d like to know how many species have been made near extinct by human activities.
Upset cat owners
Of course cat lovers and owners are up in arms. Anne Batley-Burton, president of the New Zealand Cat Foundation, said, “You would end up with people’s pets getting killed, you would end up with the poor strays being wiped out. These are sentient beings and their lives should not be taken lightly”.
The plan is to take effect in March 2019. The SPCA say there is not enough time to get all the cats microchipped. Furthermore microchipping is not obligatory under the existing law.
You don’t need a scientist to know what is causing the 6th mass extinction: It’s us….
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/11/sixth-mass-extinction-habitats-destroy-population
Only in that your opposition to the exotic pet trade (which like it or not you support with your promotion of exotic cat hybrids) is something about which I agree with you, as I despise that particular flesh-trade as much as I do the exploiters of abandoned animal misery who call themselves “nonprofit rescuers”. I’ve seen the destruction of said trade close up. However, your argument is still flawed in that (1) what you call estrapolation from “small scale studies” is predicated on a sample-size of tens of thousands (Woeinarski et al, 2018 and on quantitative data from hundreds of such studies (Marra, Loss et al, 2012, 2013, 2018)–data bases which are easily representative enough to demonstrate the accuracy of such “estimates”, and (2) everything you say in this regard is merely deflection–perhaps the most frequently employed of logical fallacies by cat-nutters everywhere. PS: Loss, Marra et al recently published refutation of all those who, like yourself, have raised spurious claims against the “reliability” of their work. I obtianed a copy before it was released–wanna see?
What in God’s name does that mean? It’s gobbledygook. I did not read the rest of your comment as it is pointless.
So, you’re not going to answer how many animals must suffer to death just so you can run your website? Just how would anyone else know how many animals must suffer to death until you realize the only thing you are doing with your life–causing the deaths of countless billions of animals every year just so you have some fur in your lap. Is getting a fuck from your cat THAT important to you? I guess it is! May your cat die a slow and excruciatingly painful death. Then maybe you’ll stop all this advice on how to torture to death all other animal lives on the planet by using your cats for that purpose. You most certainly deserve your own cat dying a slow and torturous death compared to the countless billions of animal deaths you cause each year with your words. Of that, the karma of the universe is certain. Enjoy your slowly dying cat. This curse will not be removed.
You’ll have to prove that through studies. If you can’t you are simply demonstrating your heavy bias and hatred of domestic cats.
Why are u asking me!? You tell me. There are no detailed studies on this. You are guessing all the time.
Tell us how many seals, dolphins, sea-otters, and whales need to die from your cats being in existence before we should call you on it and when you’ll start to take responsibility for all their deaths. Oh, and tell us how many native cat species must be driven to extinction by feline diseases being spread by your house-cats before you take responsibility for those too. Rare and endangered Florida Panthers have already been found dead from FLV directly traced back to a single house-cat that infected them with it (by genetic tracking of the virus to its original source). How many of those too must die before you start to feel responsible for all the wild-cats’ deaths on all continents caused by your house-cats’ diseases. More big-cats are dying from house-cat diseases today than from hunters. We’d really like to know how many animals your “hobby” is going to kill before you decided it’s not such a good hobby after all.
Calling you a tobacco smoker would be compliment compared to what you do to every life around you. You are walking-death.