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I rarely do twitter, it's kind of annoying to me but I can send a message. Anyone else want to join in and do the same?
I thought it had been shouted out of existence last year.All the news on it I can find is from last year, the most recent in October. Any recent updates? Did they start the killing already? Did they re-think it due to the uproar?
I think if your tweets are protected you have to manually allow people who are not on your list of followers. I practically never use twitter though so you should probably double check that!
No one answered my question. It's off topic but not really because the point is, if this petition is still current, can I tweet about this to someone who doesn't follow me if my tweets are protected?
Google News shows a couple of more recent articles , like http://www.odt.co.nz/news/world/australia/370653/australia-cull-millions-feral-cats.All the news on it I can find is from last year, the most recent in October. Any recent updates? Did they start the killing already? Did they re-think it due to the uproar?
They still are not addressing the REASON for their overpopulation. It's not the cats fault that irresponsible owners dump them or refuse to get them spayed/neutered! Australia's "solution" to this problem is like spaying air freshener in a smoke-filled room! Put out the fire first!! Then the odor goes away. The problem is PEOPLE, not cats. Who will be able to make them see this?
Google News shows a couple of more recent articles , like http://www.odt.co.nz/news/world/australia/370653/australia-cull-millions-feral-cats.
Ginny I hear this sound outside last night. I thought there was an injured dog in our yard. Nope it's a female cat in heat. What a voice she has. Where did she come from ? I'm putting my money on my relatives next door. And that's where it ran when I banged on the screen door.
They still are not addressing the REASON for their overpopulation. It's not the cats fault that irresponsible owners dump them or refuse to get them spayed/neutered! Australia's "solution" to this problem is like spaying air freshener in a smoke-filled room! Put out the fire first!! Then the odor goes away. The problem is PEOPLE, not cats. Who will be able to make them see this?
In the 60s excess animals were disposed of. Old farm journals would recommend disposing of all but the toms in a litter of kittens. Purebred dogs that did not make the grade were disposed of. Pet quality was a marketing game to foist inferior specimens on the middle classes that wanted the luxury of owning a purebred. The old methods were pretty brutal but effective. With S/N now common you would think the animal population would be under control or at the very least declining.
Funny, do most governments suffer from poor critical thinking skills? Must be so. Do they truly want to know how to SOLVE the problem or are they scared that it might cost more than they've got? I'd say $3.6 Million is a whole bunch of money and a lot of good could be done with that to help the problem, but NOT the way they are going to do it.
I don't recall an overpopulation problem back in the 60's when I was a little girl. Yet we had a female kitty, never spayed, had at least several litters of kittens that I remember before she mysteriously "ran away", or at least that was what my folks told me
Maybe there was a problem and I was just too young to know about it. But back then, there was no leash law. EVERYONE'S pets stayed outdoors. They came in only for special occasions or extreme weather and then only into the garage. We'd sneak our other cat Corky into the house sometimes. At least that's how my neighborhood did it.
I'd say it is effective! How many more would there be without it?
In the 60s excess animals were disposed of. Old farm journals would recommend disposing of all but the toms in a litter of kittens. Purebred dogs that did not make the grade were disposed of. Pet quality was a marketing game to foist inferior specimens on the middle classes that wanted the luxury of owning a purebred. The old methods were pretty brutal but effective. With S/N now common you would think the animal population would be under control or at the very least declining.