[Birdnuts]

Originally Posted by Graces7

Sad that you think that. Your euphemism of "removing" tells so much.They were slaughtered. Killed, butchered. And yes, murdered. For simply being there and in this case, the victims twice over. Of neglect then brutal capture and slaughter.

We were looking at property on Tory at the time; no way would we live in a place liek that where bird worship rules!

When there is a way and many folk supporting that way to manage without wholesale discriminatory slaughter, it is utterly beyond ridiculous to do what was done.

This unrealistic fanatical protectionism goes against nature and is inhumane in the extreme. Reminds of all racism and prejudice.

NB it is incorrect to capitalise corncrake. Obsessional.

for sport.. ugh! Better on the hunting forum not here where folk love cats.

The removal of non-native species to protect rare/declining native species is a standard conservation tool used around the world. Countries like New Zealand, Peru, UK, Australia etc. have removed non-native invaders like cats, dog, rats, goats and wild pigs etc. from various offshore islands to prevent the immenent extiction of various various bird, turtle and plant species. These measures are vital if the current extinction crisis the planet is undergoing is the be slowed, let alone halted. The introduction of non-native species is in the top 3 most important drivers of extinction according to international bodies like WWF, IUCN etc.

PS: I grew up with cats and kept them as pets at various times so I am not anti-cat - I simply beleive that preventing the extinction of whole species is more important then a tiny number of feral cats among the hundreds of millions of feral cats that exist in and around virtually every human settlement on the planet.

[Traonach]

Originally Posted by Graces7

Sad that you think that. Your euphemism of "removing" tells so much.They were slaughtered. Killed, butchered. And yes, murdered. For simply being there and in this case, the victims twice over. Of neglect then brutal capture and slaughter.

We were looking at property on Tory at the time; no way would we live in a place liek that where bird worship rules!

When there is a way and many folk supporting that way to manage without wholesale discriminatory slaughter, it is utterly beyond ridiculous to do what was done.

This unrealistic fanatical protectionism goes against nature and is inhumane in the extreme. Reminds of all racism and prejudice.

OK: that is all I have to say. Some of the posts in this thread are deeply distressing to animal lovers.. and some seemed quite intimidatory. Men shooting for sport.. ugh! Better on the hunting forum not here where folk love cats.

The feral cats were caught in human traps. The same traps which catch cats for TNR or brutal capture as you call it!!! All the pet cats on the Island were given collars/bells before the trapping was done so no pet cats were harmed. All pet cats had there photographs taken also to prevent pet cats been mistakenly euthanised. The feral cats were humanely euthanised. All the Islands pet cats were neutered to prevent repopulation.

[Spunk84]

To say butchered is to mean the cats were chopped up like a cow to be eaten?????? To me this sounds silly,very silly indeed . As the above says the hunting/sporting/outdoors community are more for conservation of animals than "murdering" them as you stated .

[star-pants]

please note no direct discussion of hunting or slagging off hunting.

[homerhop]

Originally Posted by Graces7

They were slaughtered. Killed, butchered. And yes, murdered. For simply being there

hmmmm a bit like mice