BOWFANATIC - perhaps you're right on this one. Seriously. You and I (I hope) know that feral cats are not cute, cuddly kitty's, rather they are farmits not unlike any other varmit that we, as hunters, have open seasons to shoot and kill.

Hunting will never be looked upon favorably, accept that. Trapping, running dogs, hunting cougars and bear, dove hunting, bowhunting ........ PETA and like will keep chipping away whereever they can. Even fishing is under attack. Its a never ending battle.

Will adding feral cats to the varmit list be a death blow ? No, it won't. Would we lose some support from non-hunters ? Maybe, but those people are idiots anyway IMO and would "turn" against Hunting anyway at some point for one reason or the other depending on what commercial they happen to see.

As for me ? I'll kill a feral cat if I see one at my descretion and I don't have a problems with other people doing it too. In my part of the country, I can walk into any woods and see sign indicating a population of feral cats. I have 2 cats, I cannot control where they go or what they do, that is the nature of a cat. I collar them and keep their vet tags up to date. If they get ran over on the road, or shot as they go into Farmer Brown's chicken coup, or if they lose their collar and get shot ........ oh well, I cannot blame the person for shooting them, in the least.