Animal groups: Could ruling lead to hunters shooting cats?
BY COLLEEN O’DEA • STAFF WRITER • March 13, 2010
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The cat: Common, popular house pet or exotic, dangerous animal?
A number of animal activists have contacted state officials in an effort to head off a potential reclassification of feral cats, which could end the growing number of programs that trap, neuter and return them back into neighborhoods or the wild, and allow them to be hunted.
The state Fish and Game Council has condemned the idea of leaving cats in the wild and now another committee that reports to the state Department of Environmental Protection is studying the issue of TNR programs.
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Argh!
What’s wrong with “hunting”? Is it more humane to let these past pets starve?
The NJ bureaucrat diddled with the bear population until, after a few “near misses” and one dead dog, they were forced to reinstate the “bear hunting season”. (My prediction is that is the last one will hear about NJ bears unless they are near extinction.)
How long before they are forced to do the same with feral cats?
An increase in diseases coming to humans a la the dear tick and lyme disease? An increase in children being threatened?
Maybe the remain bears will feast on the out-of-control cats?
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