I think the Federal Govt should take the matter out of the hands of local govt
and make all new cat ownership and breeding illegal. Just let the old ones die
out or shoot them. Surely cat lovers can switch to budgies which tend not to
predate other birds. Simple.
Tony, from my PC.
-----Original Message-----
From: Birding-Aus On Behalf Of
Peter Shute
Sent: Thursday, 3 July 2014 6:04 AM
To: Andrew Thelander
Cc: Birding Aus; Denise Goodfellow
Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Threatened species commissioner appointed to
helpsave native wildlife | Environment | theguardian.com
I took Denise's use of the word "delegitimise" to mean making cat ownership
less attractive, rather than illegal. I think this is already happening with
the increasing voluntary use of cat runs, although there is always a strong
push back every time a local council tries to bring in tougher laws.
Peter Shute
Sent from my iPad
> On 2 Jul 2014, at 7:39 pm, "Andrew Thelander" <> wrote:
>
> OMG Denise, haven't you seen all the cat posts on Facebook? Have you surfed
> the internet to see all the cat lovers and their support services? If the
> Australian conservation community goes head-to-head with the world of cat
> lovers, I have no doubt at all who will win - and in a flogging! And will
> that flogging advance the conservation cause or set it back disastrously?
> IMHO conservationists will have to be very smart about the way they deal with
> the cat issue. The sort of ideas I am reading on birding-aus at the moment
> would be a bad move. Game over, in fact. It will take restraint, empathy and
> intelligence to have any chance of solving this one! The big stick won't work.
> cheers
> Andrew
> PS re smoking, did you read last week's Saturday Paper page one article?
> PPS I don't own a cat.
> PPPS I love you all so please don't flame me!! :-)
>
>> On 02/07/2014, at 5:12 PM, Denise Goodfellow wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Perhaps the overt keeping of cats should be delegitimised like cigarette
>> smoking. That doesn’t necessarily stop people from smoking, but it may mean
>> that cats are less attractive and have less status than our native wildlife.
>>
>>
>> Denise
>
>
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