Don't shoot the cat ...

My cat is tough..lol like I said he's gigantic. He isn't your fat old lazy cat, hes really active and lean. Also he is an outside cat, but he comes inside too. He's like half and half, he comes in for food and to sleep and goes outside all day.

People would probably think he was ferral since he's so big and isn't very lazy, but thats just how he is. He's nice though, just like big. (not fat, but big all over, tall etc)

cool.........a mitten cat...you should take pic's of his feet and freak everyone out...lol...

my jungle cat is getting big...she is twice the size of my calico. but my calico is petite. i don't know how big she will get, her mother is a bangle and her father is 100% silver tipped jungle. i am frustrated i can't post a pic.

"https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...tysparents.jpg"
my lucy's parents....yeah...he would probly get shot!

Holy enormous felines Batman, that cat is huge

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Originally Posted by Marla

Yeah, it's not very fun to stop for a bite at a Chinese restaurant as you're out running errands with the family, feel like the texture and flavor of your sweet and sour "pork" is just wrong -- totally different from any pork you've had before and lighter in color to boot, and then see on the news the next night that *that exact restaurant* has been closed down that day by the health department for substituting cat for chicken and pork. I could barely keep *any* food down for a few days after that. :puke:

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I just had to share this link -- who would have thought there was a song about this very subject?

http://www.kanyak.com/ckettle.html

Taboo cuisine!

I confess I have eaten in HongKong - and yes unbeknownst to me that kung pao wasnt chicken. Funny how we develop prejudices in what is and is not "cool" to eat in terms of what we domesticate and pharm vs consider pets. There was something on cable recently on that very subject.


That is a monster cat!

Hmmm, very interesting topic...here's my 2 cents worth. I'm very "on the fence" on this topic. I was raised around hunters, Mike my hubby hunts so I really support ethical hunters and have found most of them very well informed and careful of the harvest of game. The old drunken idiots with guns scenerio is more myth than fact in my experience thank god! Having said that, feral cats are not game obviously but they can do terrible damage to the natural wildlife. As a pet owner and very long time cat owner I hate the thought of cats being shot and the idea that cat's would be "collared and friendly" is just plain silly. Most cats can get out of any collar you put them in (in fact a collared cat outside can get hung up by it's own collar) and most cats, including my own well loved pets, would not approach a stranger and therefore would appear "unfriendly".


So how to control this issue. Responsible pet ownership! If all the idiots who just "have to have a kitten for the kids" would get that kitten spayed or neutered we'd have a lot less issue here and when the "blush is off the rose" and the family can't be bothered with that same cat....take it to the local shelter for rehoming.

We live by the lake. I'm trying at this time to humanely trap a breeding female feral cat who was most likely a pet. Idiots up here get cats for mice control at the cottage then leave in the fall and guess who ends up homeless in my yard. I must say our local humane society is NOT helpful. They won't come out to trap feral cats, they won't supply humane traps (unless you pay for the "rental" of them) and I know they often turn away people trying to do the right thing and turn a cat into them because "they have too many cats"!

In the end, it comes down to making choices for your pet cats doesn't it. Mine have always been allowed outside however I do this knowing I risk my pet in many ways but I balance that against their obvious joy of roaming the nearby forest. My male cat is 16 and my female passed last year at the ripe old age of 18 so I guess for me that decision has worked out well.

In the end, instead of a legalized open hunt of feral cats, I believe the local humane societies need to get off their butts and proactively deal with this even if more tax money has to go their way for traps, staff, decent cheap spay/neuter clinics, etc. I'd rather see that then watch the poor ferals either killing all our lovely lil wild creatures or slowly starving to death or dying of exposure and disease (meanwhile managing to reproduce themselves and make the problem even worse).

One last comment (in this huge post...my apologies folks). Cats will and do hunt for pleasure or just from instinct. Both my cats have never known a day of hunger, or ever lived wild, yet will actively hunt anything in the forest they can get their lil evil claws into. Cats will be cats I guess.