Yesterday, a Starling fell down our chimney. This happens about twice a year, with varying types of birds. So I opened the fire place up to let the bird out. It sarts flying around the living room. I went and let my cat in, and within 3 minutes max he had the bird in his mouth with a death grip. I have had many cats in my day, but this one is the best hunter I've ever had.
Everywhere on earth has been radically changed by man's many migration. Australia is radically different from when the aborigines landed. It is radically different from when the Europeans landed. There is no place on earth that hasn't been affected by man and his animals. That said man and the things man carries are part of the natural sway of the planet, the only thing that differs between man and other animals is the systematic large scale changes he is directly responsible for such as the massive killings of the american buffallo and the wolf. Killing a feral cat because he is doing what comes naturally is fine in an animalistic dog eat dog world, but it lacks the moral compass you seem to attribute to it.
Everywhere on earth has been radically changed by man's many migration. Australia is radically different from when the aborigines landed. It is radically different from when the Europeans landed. There is no place on earth that hasn't been affected by man and his animals. That said man and the things man carries are part of the natural sway of the planet, the only thing that differs between man and other animals is the systematic large scale changes he is directly responsible for such as the massive killings of the american buffallo and the wolf. Killing a feral cat because he is doing what comes naturally is fine in an animalistic dog eat dog world, but it lacks the moral compass you seem to attribute to it.
Austarlia is a shining example of environmental disaster.
Extinction caused by feral species is a beautiful thing, isn't it?
I have no moral compass. My neighbor didn't keep his cat indoors. I had chased the cat away more times than I could count. spraying it with the water hose didn't even work.
I guess a feral pack of dogs eating children is "just natural" too?
Edit: There are dogs picked up in the US by large hawks, so yes, in principle dogs carrying away your unprotected young is perfectly natural. The US is also an environmental disaster, except we don't kill the english sparrows that crap on our heads, take down hawks, and serve as general nuisances to our beloved pets...
The US is also an environmental disaster, except we don't kill the english sparrows that crap on our heads, take down hawks, and serve as general nuisances to our beloved pets...
Now that was just a fistful of stupid.
However, the ferel cat and dog population all but decimated the quail and whiporwill population in the south.
If you are going to have a pet, have it sterilized.
Actually no it wasn't. There are litterally swarms of these birds that have begun to migrate and have forced indigenous birds to different and limited migration areas. They are nasty creatures that may be the death of many native migratory species. But you don't see us shooting them down, now do you?
I have no moral compass. My neighbor didn't keep his cat indoors. I had chased the cat away more times than I could count. spraying it with the water hose didn't even work.
You mean neither chasing OR the water hose trick worked? Definitely time to break out the rifle and risk shooting a neighborhood kid. Those goddamn cats have to die!
You mean neither chasing OR the water hose trick worked? Definitely time to break out the rifle and risk shooting a neighborhood kid. Those goddamn cats have to die!
Okay, speaking of lions. We took our students on a field trip three years ago to a wild animal park. At the end of the day, an hour before closing, workers started to go around in carts with raw meat for all the carnivores.
Apparently a horse had been hit on a highway. It was brought to the park for the lions. The workers must have cut it up with a chain saw or some huge butcher's saw, because one of my teacher friends saw the workers throw half a horse's head (cut in half longitudinally) to a lion. Very quickly, the lion ate the entire thing, including the teeth. My friend was astounded.
In those nature shows, I always am horrified when one lion gets the wildebeeste by the nose, one by the throat, and the others start eating the soft loin meat while the poor creature is still perfectly alive in every sense of the word.
I mean, being killed for dinner is bad enough. But to be served up alive is just unspeakable.
When a frog snaps up an insect, I wonder how long the insect lives in the frog's stomach while the acid starts to digest it. Same when a fish swallows another fish. Alive inside, being digested.
Does anyone else ever think about stuff like this? \
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As far as "animal kingdom" goes...
I taped a 2 liter soda bottle to the end my 22 and let him have it 9 times.
Keep your cat out of my yard or it dies.
Now if it gets into my back yard, my Aussie shepherd will gladly eat it.
Originally posted by Screamin Cockatoo
I had a cat trying to get the baby birds that are nested in the window on my front door.
I taped a 2 liter soda bottle to the end my 22 and let him have it 9 times.
Keep your cat out of my yard or it dies.
Now if it gets into my back yard, my Aussie shepherd will gladly eat it.
A cat is a predator like you dog. Birds also predates others birds. You are full of contradiction.
Originally posted by Screamin Cockatoo
A cat is a feral predator introduced by man.
So is a dog.
Originally posted by Screamin Cockatoo
Makes it quiet.
So does a pillow on your head while Bubba is pumpin' 12 inches of jailhouse justice into your dumb ass.
heh
Yee haw!
He brought the "ugly" out of you!
Originally posted by billybobsky
Everywhere on earth has been radically changed by man's many migration. Australia is radically different from when the aborigines landed. It is radically different from when the Europeans landed. There is no place on earth that hasn't been affected by man and his animals. That said man and the things man carries are part of the natural sway of the planet, the only thing that differs between man and other animals is the systematic large scale changes he is directly responsible for such as the massive killings of the american buffallo and the wolf. Killing a feral cat because he is doing what comes naturally is fine in an animalistic dog eat dog world, but it lacks the moral compass you seem to attribute to it.
Austarlia is a shining example of environmental disaster.
Extinction caused by feral species is a beautiful thing, isn't it?
I have no moral compass. My neighbor didn't keep his cat indoors. I had chased the cat away more times than I could count. spraying it with the water hose didn't even work.
I guess a feral pack of dogs eating children is "just natural" too?
Edit: There are dogs picked up in the US by large hawks, so yes, in principle dogs carrying away your unprotected young is perfectly natural. The US is also an environmental disaster, except we don't kill the english sparrows that crap on our heads, take down hawks, and serve as general nuisances to our beloved pets...
Originally posted by billybobsky
The US is also an environmental disaster, except we don't kill the english sparrows that crap on our heads, take down hawks, and serve as general nuisances to our beloved pets...
Now that was just a fistful of stupid.
However, the ferel cat and dog population all but decimated the quail and whiporwill population in the south.
If you are going to have a pet, have it sterilized.
I've also watched my cat track and eat 5 cockroaches in one sitting.
Great fun.
Originally posted by Screamin Cockatoo
I have no moral compass. My neighbor didn't keep his cat indoors. I had chased the cat away more times than I could count. spraying it with the water hose didn't even work.
You mean neither chasing OR the water hose trick worked? Definitely time to break out the rifle and risk shooting a neighborhood kid. Those goddamn cats have to die!
Originally posted by murbot
You mean neither chasing OR the water hose trick worked? Definitely time to break out the rifle and risk shooting a neighborhood kid. Those goddamn cats have to die!
My cat eats bullets for breakfast.
Apparently a horse had been hit on a highway. It was brought to the park for the lions. The workers must have cut it up with a chain saw or some huge butcher's saw, because one of my teacher friends saw the workers throw half a horse's head (cut in half longitudinally) to a lion. Very quickly, the lion ate the entire thing, including the teeth. My friend was astounded.
In those nature shows, I always am horrified when one lion gets the wildebeeste by the nose, one by the throat, and the others start eating the soft loin meat while the poor creature is still perfectly alive in every sense of the word.
I mean, being killed for dinner is bad enough. But to be served up alive is just unspeakable.
When a frog snaps up an insect, I wonder how long the insect lives in the frog's stomach while the acid starts to digest it. Same when a fish swallows another fish. Alive inside, being digested.
Does anyone else ever think about stuff like this?
Originally posted by Carol A
...Does anyone else ever think about stuff like this?
Yeah-along the same lines some snakes venom PARALYZES the victim before the swallowing-god that would suck!
J