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Feral cats

To: Chris Brandis <>
Subject: Feral cats
From: Peter Shute <>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 17:33:06 +1100
But Port Lincoln is a lot closer to civilisation than western Queenland, Chris. 
I'd like to know when cats arrived there. Do we have historical distribution 
maps?

Peter Shute 

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> On 2 Mar 2015, at 3:58 pm, Chris Brandis <> wrote:
> 
> HI
> I think they have been a problem for a long time as I remember a TV 
> show, in black and white, showing the skeleton of a cat at a dry water 
> hole on top of lots of bird bits as it was the last to die after killing 
> many birds that came to drink then was stuck there when the water hole 
> was drying and it ran out of food.
> When I was young and visited a farm for the Xmas holidays near Port 
> Lincoln in the early 1950s I had the job of culling the cats by drowning 
> the kittens and trapping the adults, kept me in a job for 4 years. 
> Rabbits were in plague proportions then and mice plagues common.
> Cheers  Chris
> 
>> On 2/03/2015 8:41 AM, Peter Shute wrote:
>> Feral cats have been increasingly in the news over the last few years. I'm 
>> interested to know if this is due to recent discoveries about the effect 
>> they're having, or is it that they've recently spread to areas where they've 
>> never been before?
>> 
>> Peter Shute
> 
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