Australian plans to kill 2 million feral cats - petition

'The Australian Government plans to kill over 2 million cats, with a $3.6m fund established to wipe colony cats off the face of the earth.

This high risk initiative includes a website designed to dob in colony cats and a number of cat eradication programs including baiting, shooting, dogs, traps and nearly every method of killing known.'


If you object to this please consider contacting your local Australian embassy or consulate or, if you're Australian, your local authorities.

There are also many petitions online including this one:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/303/...-successful-cat-management-in-australia/#sign



This isn't anti-Australian in intention. The country itself isn't the target, just the campaign.

Stiff penalties for those who abandon their pets would be a good start, too.

parenthesis said:

 
Stiff penalties for those who abandon their pets would be a good start, too.

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Exactly!  If they are going to go after "the problem" they need to stop blaming the cats.  This won't solve the problem anyway.  It's been done before and the cats were not obliterated as they had hoped.  Perhaps that $3.6million would be better used for a TNR project instead of trap and kill.  God, that makes me angry!  

Ginny said:

 
Exactly!  If they are going to go after "the problem" they need to stop blaming the cats.  This won't solve the problem anyway.  It's been done before and the cats were not obliterated as they had hoped.  Perhaps that $3.6million would be better used for a TNR project instead of trap and kill.  God, that makes me angry!  

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This is so ridiculous. People are the reason that they feral cat population is the way it is yet the cats will be the ones who pay the price for it. This "solution" has failed in the past and it will fail again. It's shameful. They should spend the money on a TNR program to start off with and then educate their citizens about the importance of spaying and neutering. 

I signed the petition. 

Thank you  Parenthesis for Posting Petition Link bringing awareness just horrible!

It's sad they aren't using a better problem solving model especially Today 

Everything but punish the humans that continue to refuse to S/N their pets. They can kill 2 million and be back at the starting gate in just a few years with the same problem. I wonder how many innocent companion cats are going to be victims.

Using dogs trained to kill cats ? Poison ? I guess animal cruelty laws don't apply.

I thought this particular nuttery had been shut down a while back ?

Seventhheaven said:

It's sad they aren't using a better problem solving model especially Today 

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That's  the problem!  It's a half-assed approach that doesn't even begin to address the real problem.  It sounds like they (whoever "they" are) took about 5 minutes to discuss the problem  Problem? There's too many cats!  Solution: kill the cats!  



No.

They didn't even bother to ask WHY there are so many cats.  If they did, they would spend that money wisely on TNR rather than trap and kill.  History is repeating itself.  Only the wise take note.  Here's a good article about the two different approaches, what works, clearly, and what does not work, clearly.  Even Jacksonville needs to improve their approach and lessen their euthanasia numbers.  But they are doing better than Kern County.  There still is no mention of WHY there are so many cats and until that is addressed and the owners penalized for abandonment and not having their animals spayed/neutered, the problem will just continue and fester.  

http://www.bakersfield.com/news/201...lling-animals-key-solutions-went-ignored.html

Ginny said:

 
That's  the problem!  It's a half-assed approach that doesn't even begin to address the real problem.  It sounds like they (whoever "they" are) took about 5 minutes to discuss the problem  Problem? There's too many cats!  Solution: kill the cats!  

No.

They didn't even bother to ask WHY there are so many cats.  If they did, they would spend that money wisely on TNR rather than trap and kill.  History is repeating itself.  Only the wise take note.  Here's a good article about the two different approaches, what works, clearly, and what does not work, clearly.  Even Jacksonville needs to improve their approach and lessen their euthanasia numbers.  But they are doing better than Kern County.  There still is no mention of WHY there are so many cats and until that is addressed and the owners penalized for abandonment and not having their animals spayed/neutered, the problem will just continue and fester.  

http://www.bakersfield.com/news/201...lling-animals-key-solutions-went-ignored.html

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This kind of stuff makes my brain hurt. It's 2016 and someone is suggesting that one of the ways to reduce the feral cat population is death by dogs. Since I had a cat killed feet and I mean less than 6 feet from me by two dogs and ripped in half alive and have those screams etched in my brain I would like to personally slap the ears off the person(s) endorsing this.

Kittens Mom said:

 
This kind of stuff makes my brain hurt. It's 2016 and someone is suggesting that one of the ways to reduce the feral cat population is death by dogs. Since I had a cat killed feet and I mean less than 6 feet from me by two dogs and ripped in half alive and have those screams etched in my brain I would like to personally slap the ears off the person(s) endorsing this.

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I'd like to do worse than that!  Clearly it's the cat-haters at work here.  How horrible for you to have witnessed what you did.  I know it happens in nature all the time, but when city officials PLAN this??? It's nothing but cruelty and savagery in my opinion.  (Not to mention the fact that it does nothing to solve the actual problem, let alone, address it.)  So is abandonment and letting your pet reproduce continually with no thought for how all those new mouths are going to get enough to eat.  

Ginny said:

 
I'd like to do worse than that!  Clearly it's the cat-haters at work here.  How horrible for you to have witnessed what you did.  I know it happens in nature all the time, but when city officials PLAN this??? It's nothing but cruelty and savagery in my opinion.  (Not to mention the fact that it does nothing to solve the actual problem, let alone, address it.)  So is abandonment and letting your pet reproduce continually with no thought for how all those new mouths are going to get enough to eat.  

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I'm sure my neighbors/relatives have some odd thing in the bible that tells them altering their pets is unnatural. When I see people with authority even in another country suggest using barbaric methods to control unwanted cat populations it only helps foster the bad thinking that makes it acceptable to let your cat/dog have offspring that you have zero intentions to being responsible for their welfare.

Well, it is unnatural.  But so is domesticating a wild animal and taking him/her out of the food chain.  But that's a topic for another debate.  

For what it's worth, I don't know of any scripture that prohibits neutering/spaying animals.  There may be one but I don't know of it.  But even if there's not, that won't stop some people from saying "well, the bible says..." whatever they want it to say.  

What I do know from my memory of what the bible says is that "God" seems to care for the welfare of the animals He created, and blessed, and called good.  I can hardly see that statement being twisted to mean it's ok to visit such savagery on any one of them for any situation.    

Ginny said:

 
Well, it is unnatural.  But so is domesticating a wild animal and taking him/her out of the food chain.  But that's a topic for another debate.  

For what it's worth, I don't know of any scripture that prohibits neutering/spaying animals.  There may be one but I don't know of it.  But even if there's not, that won't stop some people from saying "well, the bible says..." whatever they want it to say.  

What I do know from my memory of what the bible says is that "God" seems to care for the welfare of the animals He created, and blessed, and called good.  I can hardly see that statement being twisted to mean it's ok to visit such savagery on any one of them for any situation.    

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The most common companion animals and livestock are far removed from the wild. Even as primal as the cat is the domestic cat even feral will can be turned into a docile housecat. I try not to discuss religion with my relatives. They also assume that being an atheist I have no morals.  I know quite a few people of every persuasion and moral character has little to do with either being a believe or not.  The fact that there are people who may use religion with faulty thinking to not alter their pets to me usually comes down to one factor. They aren't going to spend a dime more on their pets than they have to aside from the cheapest bulk food at a discount store and vet care is usually limited to letting them die a ' natural death ' or a .22. Religion or personal belief is the excuse. Money the underlying factor.

The world is watching. Animal activists will turn their phones at them and capture the savagery and light up social media.

Actress Brigitte Bardot has been campaigning to stop the massacre. 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-...mns-greg-hunt-for-feral-cut-cull-plan/6640846

Good for Bridget!!  Now where are some more famous people that can lend a voice to help?

Ginny said:

 
Good for Bridget!!  Now where are some more famous people that can lend a voice to help?

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Yeah I was thinking the same thing. They have no problem hitting up social media to start stupid fights with each other or to post yet another half naked selfie that nobody cares about. Where are they when it's time to help animals in need?  

Kittens Mom said:

 
The most common companion animals and livestock are far removed from the wild. Even as primal as the cat is the domestic cat even feral will can be turned into a docile housecat. I try not to discuss religion with my relatives. They also assume that being an atheist I have no morals.  I know quite a few people of every persuasion and moral character has little to do with either being a believe or not.  The fact that there are people who may use religion with faulty thinking to not alter their pets to me usually comes down to one factor. They aren't going to spend a dime more on their pets than they have to aside from the cheapest bulk food at a discount store and vet care is usually limited to letting them die a ' natural death ' or a .22. Religion or personal belief is the excuse. Money the underlying factor.

The world is watching. Animal activists will turn their phones at them and capture the savagery and light up social media.

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I've found atheists and agnostics to have more morals than so called "Christians", especially where animals are concerned.  They seem to not know, or even care what their own bible says about the treatment of animals.  (See Derick "Duggar" Dillard and the cat sled incidence for a really good example of this.)  As for me, I am agnostic but not happy about it.  I've found that those who go to church think they've done their whole duty to God.  My sibs are a prime example of this.  They practically live at church yet they couldn't find it in their hearts to help me take care of our mom, except for what I could beg out of them.  It seems they were too busy going to church to actually walk their talk.  Hypocrites.  I've called them that to their faces.  They simply don't care.  OTOH, they have been fair to their animals.  And even the sib who hates cats once took in a mama kitty to let her have her babies and nurse them until they were old enough to be adopted.  But....I'm sure she put out a "Free to a good home" ad.  She did try, but she's still clueless.  She was better to that stray cat than she was to her own mom.  But that's another story.  

Back to the topic at hand, I do hope maybe Taylor Swift and Ricky Gervais and other well known cat lovers will lend their voices against this horrible massacre planned by Australia!  Any way to get this message to them?

Ginny said:

 
I've found atheists and agnostics to have more morals than so called "Christians", especially where animals are concerned.  They seem to not know, or even care what their own bible says about the treatment of animals.  (See Derick "Duggar" Dillard and the cat sled incidence for a really good example of this.)  As for me, I am agnostic but not happy about it.  I've found that those who go to church think they've done their whole duty to God.  My sibs are a prime example of this.  They practically live at church yet they couldn't find it in their hearts to help me take care of our mom, except for what I could beg out of them.  It seems they were too busy going to church to actually walk their talk.  Hypocrites.  I've called them that to their faces.  They simply don't care.  OTOH, they have been fair to their animals.  And even the sib who hates cats once took in a mama kitty to let her have her babies and nurse them until they were old enough to be adopted.  But....I'm sure she put out a "Free to a good home" ad.  She did try, but she's still clueless.  She was better to that stray cat than she was to her own mom.  But that's another story.  

Back to the topic at hand, I do hope maybe Taylor Swift and Ricky Gervais and other well known cat lovers will lend their voices against this horrible massacre planned by Australia!  Any way to get this message to them?

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Social media is the best way. Send them the link to the petition via Facebook or Twitter. 

Kat0121 said:

 
Yeah I was thinking the same thing. They have no problem hitting up social media to start stupid fights with each other or to post yet another half naked selfie that nobody cares about. Where are they when it's time to help animals in need?  

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The average teenagery/20something celeb is way too self-absorbed to take on a cause like this without a hefty paycheck on the table.   Still I'm sure there are celebs, even some of the younger ones, who feel deeply about this and would speak up.  How to get the message to them?  I don't do Facebook.  

Ginny said:

 
The average teenagery/20something celeb is way too self-absorbed to take on a cause like this without a hefty paycheck on the table.   Still I'm sure there are celebs, even some of the younger ones, who feel deeply about this and would speak up.  How to get the message to them?  I don't do Facebook.  

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I think Twitter is better than FB for that