Kittens For Food?

[Bogertophis]

I’m a snake owner, and a cat owner. I love cats and snakes, they are very cool predators and very cool pets. I do believe in controlling the population, there should only be responsible breeders of snakes, and there should only be responsible keepers of cats that spay and neuter. However if the population gets out of control as in the Burmese python problem or the feral cat problem, there needs to be an elimination of these creatures by any means in my opinion.
Killing is often necessary in the animal kingdom.

Exactly! I don't welcome the killing of any animals: I feel bad for non-native snakes being killed for "being in the wrong place" but because I CARE about
our native wildlife, the whole ecosystem, I understand and accept that necessity.

But obviously, most cat-lovers refuse to accept the same fate for feral/loose cats: animal shelters have long waiting lists from people who want to turn in all
those kittens or puppies they just couldn't resist producing, or the older pets they no longer want or are able to care for. Most of those owner turn-ins will make
good pets for a new owner. But then add in all the cat-lovers who just can't resist feeding the strays, or even participating in TNR (if anyone doesn't know what
that is, it stands for "trap, neuter & release"): this is all WRONG. First off, most feral cats take a lot of work to make them become suitable pets. Where does
all that money, time & energy come from? From "cat-lovers" who mostly let their own cats run loose...well, because "it's always been done that way"!? And if
you only have a finite (NOT INFINITE) number of good homes to adopt cats, why would you continue to work with ferals & allow those that are already PETS to
be euthanized or dumped? Because that's what happens when the waiting list is too long at a shelter...many unwanted pets get dumped. So this never ends...

The arguments by cat-lovers in favor of TNR, that eliminating feral cats is just too hard to do, are deliberately missing the point! The first part of TNR is TRAP!
Hello??? Many feral cats can be trapped...we know this because they ARE being trapped. But instead of euthanizing them as should be (& must become) the
law, they are only being neutered & released. Yes, that reduces the population of cats...but it's too little. Remember that human population keeps increasing
all the while, so more people are releasing more cats all the time...so TNR does NOT work and never will. And all those damn loose cats are still killing wildlife,
still damaging property, still spreading diseases & parasites to animals and people, still disturbing the sleep of hard-working people w/ fights....this must stop.

If you truly love cats, you would NOT want them running loose, to be hungry, diseased, preyed upon, poisoned or run over by cars. That's not what I call 'love'.
It's far kinder to cats to euthanize those trapped than to release them, & since they are not native predators but "domestic" animals (hence the name "domestic
short-hair" etc) they do not ever belong running wild. This is unacceptable for any other species we keep...why should cats be different? This must stop now.

I applaud Australia for taking action on this issue. >>>

https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/an...nimals-per-day

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...on-feral-cats/

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-0...imates/9013960

https://www.theguardian.com/environm...t-of-australia

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...lets-injected/