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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