Dear Andrew,
Heartfelt thanks for your excellent piece in 'The Age'.
Some time ago I was listening to either 'Science Show' or 'Ockham's
Razor', and heard a biologist or ecologist interviewed. He researches
feral cats in the Kimberley or Pilbara, putting radio-collars on feral
cats. One tom was living on a rocky ridge bordering a grassy plain.
There was a grass-fire on the plain, and the cat came down from his
ridge, and trekked several kilometres across the plain to the margin of
the burnt area. This was good hunting for him because of all the refugee
mammals and reptiles which had escaped the fire and moved to nearby
unburnt country. He hunted here for a week or two and then trekked back
to his ridge. I have not been able to follow up the reference but i
think it is important information.
Thank you again,
Anthea Fleming
On 13/01/2013 12:19 AM, Andrew Stafford wrote:
After my somewhat intemperate outburst regarding the publication of Professor Adrian
Franklin's piece in The Age earlier this week (I called it "the biggest load of crap
this side of a dysentery epidemic"), Birding-Aus filled up for a day with far more
useful posts than mine about the feral cat problem. I would like to thank all those
people whose posts led me to links that I quickly assembled for an opinion piece of my
own by way of reply. I was intending to do this anyway - but those replies saved me a lot
of time in research, and I thank everyone who contributed to the topic. These replies
need to be written quickly if they're to be published, so it was a great help. I trust I
haven't plagiarised anyone! I did borrow the superb quote from Ross Macfarlane's brother
at the end, which I acknowledged, though not by name.
The piece appears in today's Age, quite to my surprise (no one contacted me to
tell me it was going in) -
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/a-feral-cat-is-not-a-metaphor-its-a-furry-killing-machine-20130112-2cmqi.html?rand=1357994295512
One thing that got edited out of my short bio at the bottom was that I keep my
lilac-point ragdoll indoors!
Thanks again
Andrew
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