Zach Slattery likes to hunt feral cats on hunting trips to Kangaroo Island which is just off the mainland of South Australia. He then posts his photographs, such as the one below on Facebook. You can see him grinning inanely at the camera proudly displaying his “kill”. What an arseh***!
THIS POST WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED FEB 28 2016. The authorities now poison feral cats on this island using 1080.
What a disgrace too that law enforcement in South Australia appear to think that this is quite normal and acceptable despite the fact that it is obviously cruel — it must be a form of animal cruelty. The fact that he has not been arrested or talked to by the police indicates that his behaviour is within the law of South Australia which, for me, means the law is an ass in South Australia. It would not happen in the UK. He’d be arrested.
I’m not alone in believing that Mr Slattery is an arseh*** because he has received a lot of criticism on Facebook and rightly so. In response he says that the people who are criticising him are ignorant as he is carrying out a public service by which he means that he is ridding a part of Australia of some feral cats which in turn will help preserve wildlife.
Mr Slattery has received thousands of abusive messages and even death threats from animal rights activists. I would say, actually, that he has also received threats from ordinary, decent people. You don’t need to be an animal rights activist to see that what he is doing is obviously immoral and animal cruelty.
I would say that it is Slattery who is ignorant rather than the people who are criticising him. It doesn’t surprise me though that someone like him is killing feral cats because the governments of the various states of Australia are consistently criticising feral cats and looking at ways of killing them en masse. You may remember that they have, over the years, proposed various ways to kill feral cats all of which have been cruel and all of which would no doubt prove unsuccessful because killing feral cat does not work in the long run.
A number of petitions have been opened online which are aimed at the Australian government in the hope of stopping Slattery from killing more feral cats in this cruel manner.
“Citizens such as Zach Slattery of South Australia should not be allowed to legally murder feral cats… His photos of him smiling and posing with their dead bodies on Facebook is an outrage… It should be against the law for the public community to take part in animal population control, especially by savage and disrespectful means….” (taken from a petition on change.org).
There is an ignorant element to the Australian culture regarding their relationship with the feral cat who they created….
Facebook are rubbish when it comes to removing animal cruelty photos. That’s another problem.
Please note: Any comments from trolls such as Woody will not be published and deleted.
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Wise words Pippa. Thank you. There is (a) a government campaign against the roaming cat and (b) ignorance within a section of society in Australia regarding the roaming cat.
I am embarrassed to be Australian – this sort of thing is common especially as Kangaroo Island is a cat free island. People are allowed to trap other people’s pet cats if they poke their nose over the boundary fence and hand them in to the pound or worse. Many people, including myself, keep their cats inside now and have an outdoor enclosure to keep their cats safe. The lack of empathy towards cats in general really disgusts me. They are only living like this because of the irresponsibility of humans. Also, the faulty statistics from the wildlife zealots don’t help. Australia is a country which has more than its share of cat haters and ignoramuses like this idiot would obviously prefer to risk getting plague from rats by eradicating cats in the same way as the ignorant superstitions and religious beliefs did in the middle ages. Its weird as they don’t get it that cats have their place in the ecology for rodent control now because the rodents came out on the ships which brought the European settlers here, along with cats.
Thanks Linda. As you say he does need educating as do lots of people who like to kill cats in this way.
F*****G PIECE OF SHIT HOW BOUT WE TAKE A BOW AND ARROW & ERADICATE U LOL
TA, TA Woody.
Travis, I am sorry to say that you are incorrect. I hate it when stupid people like you make stupid comments (to use your language)! And I will not keep my opinion to myself because I have a right to express my opinion on my website. The fact of the matter is that killing feral cats will not eradicate them. Killing feral cats in the manner described in the article is animal cruelty and is immoral and in some countries illegal. Also, feral cats don’t cause the extirpation of wildlife or the extinction of wildlife. Yes, feral cats do kill wildlife in order to survive but only extremely rarely have they caused the extirpation of a species on an island. The feral cat is maligned and misunderstood by people like you. In fact, even scientists don’t understand the extent of the predation of feral cats in the estimate or make bad estimates based upon small sample sizes as to the impact of feral cats on wildlife. If even the scientists cannot estimate properly the impact upon wildlife of feral cats then how can people like you understand it?
It is not a fact that cats must go as you state so ignorantly. It is people like you that have to go in my opinion.