I'm all for the stray shooting objective, and it should be enforced, cats should be kept inside, if not then they can and will be shot or uthinized.

deer elk bobcat turkey squirrel coon coyote groundhog

1 squirrel and 4 scaup.

I bought some property and there were 2 "stray" rottweilers running on it. I took a .22 and a shotgun loaded with buckshot. I was 100% ready to take them out. They didn't have a coller on either one. I walked on my property and saw them. I followed them and they ran to someones house. I had loaded guns and was fully prepared to shoot them. It turns out the man that lived there was a famous pro shooter. He won the ASA senior pro tournament in 2000. I just started archery too. Now we are good friends.

Spaying and Neutering would have a drastic impact on the number of wild/stray dogs and cats. I guess its a problem everywhere but here in the indian editions ive lived in people get pets and dont spay/neuter. Thats fine but they dont keep them confined either. So you have cats and dogs running around mating all the time. The whelp several kittens and pups at once it dont take long for numbers to climb. I hate to say it, im a dog person but im fixin to have to shoot my neighbors dogs. They arent fed, they are mangy, they come in our road to poop. They where standing in my front yard eyeballing my turkeys today. I got some m88's to pop at them but if they dont work i hate to think of what i will have to resort to. If the owner actualy carred about his animals I could talk to him, but it doesnt so it will be in vain. His female has a litter of pups each year for 3 years now and no sighn of slowing down, even though she is covered in mange.

Shooting stray cats and dogs especially dogs running deer is perfectly ethical in my book, so i guess you know whose side im on, even though i see how washingtonhunter feels about his pets.

my cat brings back mice about once or twice a month. Im not goin to shoot her though

I killed a fews cats and a dog that was about to attack me while hunting, am I sick?

Of course not don't be rediculous.

But you should make sure she is spayed or else your unknowingly contributing to the problem.

both my cats are.

I hope that practice catches on, it sickens me to see the shape the strays/neglected animals are in here.