Most people who object to hunting cats only do so because they don't truly understand the issue.


To say that they are not feral proves that you don't understand the definition of a feral animal. A feral animal is an animal that was once domestic, but has escaped or was released into the wild and now breeds freely in the wild. However, is not part of the regions natural species composition. The problem is that people are allowing their so called "pets" to run rampant all over the countryside. Cats are NOT a natural part of the ecosystem. They were brought over from europe and have inhabitated an area where they have no natural predators and their prey is not adapted to the predator. With nothing to keep the population of these animals in check, they continue to breed freely and reap havoc on our native populations of birds. Those of you who say who cares about "a few tweety birds", who are you to place a higher value on cats that don't even belong here. For those of you who oppose this proposition, if you really cared about your cats then you would keep them inside and get them fixed! As for controlling the rodents, farmers can find other more effective ways to go about this and to say there isn't any is just being ignorant.

I agree that hunting the cats gives us a bad name and probably isn't the most effective way of going about it. Cat lovers say "we need to find another way" well guess what, the easiest cheapest way is to keep your damn cat inside and get it fixed. However, these supposed cat lovers can't even shoulder that resposibility. I'm from MN where its legal to shoot cats and it hasn't created any problems here so I say yes to hunting cats. Maybe if the proposition passes it will give cat lovers more incentive to keep their animals inside.

Until cat lovers decide take on the responsibility of keeping there cats indoors they have absolutely nothing to say about the issue.