This shouldnt even be considered a topic, the fact of the matter is simple, if the cat is wild and hurting OUR game species, then what harm does it do to kill them, it is absolutely nothing different from killing a coyote. If the cat is wild, then what good of a pet is it? If you can determine if its a pet cat...i.e. a collar around its neck, then obviously anyone in their right mind would shoot it. For all of you defending these wild cats, you must not have thought it through. It is your own fault if you throw a cat out in the wild and hope it kills mice, of course, everyone knows that that cat will become wild. It would be different if you had a collar on the cats neck and kept it close to home by food and water daily.
Interesting?? But I have never seen hawks, owls, foxes, bobcats, coyotes, coons, etc. in my barn helping control the rodents.
If your cat is in a barn and close to your house, then how would it get killed?
Fact of the matter is simple.....Wild cats are just as bad as coyotes (notice how i said WILD CATS....and not cats in general.) You are all thinking of just cats in general.......its the wild cats that are causing problems, not your pet.