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April 12, 2005

Cat Hunting May be Legalized in Wisconsin

Cat-blogging bloggers beware: Wisconsin may legalize cat hunting.

My opinion? Here kitty-kitty-kitty.....

Two questions:

1) What does cat taste like?

2) What's the going rate for a cat pelt? ABC News:

Cat lovers might be outraged by the idea of allowing hunters to stalk their furry friends, but some naturalists say pet owners ought to take the proposal as a wake-up call to be more responsible.
The issue of whether to make feral cats an unprotected species, meaning they could be hunted and killed, was put before the Wisconsin Conservation Congress, an independent organization created by the state 70 years ago to take public input on conservation issues, last night. Representatives from 72 counties listened to residents' concerns about the issue.
The proposal, which was raised five years ago and voted down by the congress, was revived after a 2004 University of Wisconsin study that found non-native feral cats were a threat to native animals such as lovebirds.
Estimates of the number of songbirds killed each year by feral cats in Wisconsin alone range from 8 million to 217 million, though the number is actually believed to be around 39 million, said Steven Oestreicher, the chairman of the congress.
"When you're talking about millions and millions of songbirds in state, you've got take a harder look at this," he said.

Posted by: Rusty at 08:33 AM | Comments (33) | Add Comment
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1 Finn,
Cat pelts, this is right up your alley.
Can you help us here?

Posted by: Brad at April 12, 2005 08:43 AM (M7kiy)

2 Tastes like chicken, right?

What no PETA?

Posted by: Red at April 12, 2005 09:23 AM (zlrCL)

3 I think it would be a good hunt. Feral cats are tough to get at most of the time. They are quite destructive to an environment as already proven in many parts of the world.

Chris

Posted by: Chris at April 12, 2005 09:23 AM (ShcLv)

4 Shoot the people who abandon cats, not the cats.

And aren't humans and cows invasive species as well?

I say boycott Wisconsin cheese and end the occupation of Wisconsin.

Posted by: Laurence Simon at April 12, 2005 10:34 AM (rOZ8t)

5 Looks like a rabbit once the skin and head is removed (source grandpa). I don't think you would want to eat one. I would not eat a predator. Tastes bad. I think in most states it is legal to kill stray cats as vermin at least on your own property. Might help rabbit & quail hunters as cats kill a lot of these when they are young. I suggest the season be in hard winter so as not to orphan kittens (next years targets). I like a cat or two around the farm. Grandpa thins them out every so often with a .22. They are a useful predator but too many cats are a bad thing.

Posted by: Howie at April 12, 2005 10:38 AM (D3+20)

6 We are delicious. And on a professor's salary, I'm certain you can't afford us.

Posted by: Wittysexkitten at April 12, 2005 10:41 AM (vhWf1)

7 Witty--that is so funny on so many different levels.

Posted by: Rusty Shackleford at April 12, 2005 10:47 AM (JQjhA)

8 Oh my, there's a hidden force working behind the scenes on this one. Beware!

Posted by: Paladin at April 12, 2005 10:49 AM (Rfqkp)

9
Lawrence, I agree with you on abandoned animals but ferrel cats can breed and raise offspring totaly without human intervention. Most are not abandoned animals. Also tomcats leave home and go wild if not fixed. Pussycats go wild and come back pregnant about a week later. Rusty, as far as I know the pelt is worthless. Hair won't stay in after tanning. The intestines are useful for piano strings (other instuments too) and to sew people up.

Posted by: Howie at April 12, 2005 10:59 AM (D3+20)

10 I had no doubt you would get it on every level Rusty.

Posted by: Wittysexkitten at April 12, 2005 12:34 PM (vhWf1)

11 My level is rising!!

Posted by: Chris at April 12, 2005 02:10 PM (NBrzU)

12 All this talk of pussy--I thought we were supposed to clean up the language, Rusty?

Posted by: Young Bourbon Professional at April 12, 2005 04:24 PM (oVu08)

13 Bourbon: Naw! I ain't going to say it.

Posted by: greyrooster at April 12, 2005 06:14 PM (CBNGy)

14 Never hunted cats, more of a duck/bear hunter myself, but some kids shot our cats foot off. (Not hunting, they're just assholes) Miss that cat, it was an excellent squirrel hunter and fetched all birds I shot, when they were attacking our berry bushes in the backyard (just crows and "rÃƒÂ¤kÃƒÂ¤ttirastaita"). The happy heavydrinking bum (mentioned earlier in my posts) told me cat meat is not much different from eating raw chicken meat (whatever that tastes like).

Posted by: A Finn at April 13, 2005 02:53 AM (cWMi4)

15 Cat pelts don't make good clothing. Had cat gloves once, wore out real fast, got itchy when wet. Good only for decorations and stuff like that.

Posted by: A Finn at April 13, 2005 03:55 AM (cWMi4)

16 See guys: I told you A FINN had potential. A Finn. Must have been muslim cats. Christian cats don't itch. Muslim cats itch and smell bad. I hear the Swedes skin muslim cats. You probably had muslim cat gloves made by Swedes.
Only in far northern Europe to they make cat gloves. In the rest of the world the muslims eat them.

Posted by: greyrooster at April 13, 2005 11:32 PM (CBNGy)

17 I was hoping we could keep this one alive.
I'm a dog man myself. I run 3-5 miles a day with my Australian Sepherd Boonie.(I enjoy the beer and wine better if I've put in my miles). We have no use for cats. If we can find some useful purpose for their remains so much the better. If not, lets stack them like cord wood in the Wisconsin forests.
According to Finn the gloves are for shit. Who wants a stuffed cat in the home? A cat rug would be the joke of the neighborhood.
Let's face it, anyone who shits and pisses in the house that is not human is a pest, and those cat slugs in the garden really piss me off.
Interesting story: This morning on the way to work, talk radio in Seattle was discussing this subject(wonder if they picked it up from the Jawa site). As you might imagine, liberals were up in arms about cat slaughter. They even brought in the Chicken death camp card. That is, Chickens who are kept in cages until killed or worse..forced to lay eggs for us humans in cages. Oh..the horror.
I got to work before that "save the whale" crap started.
Show me a person who cares about wild cats, caged chickens and whales and I gurantee that I will show you a pro abortion liberal.
Just my rant for today.

Posted by: Brad at April 14, 2005 12:10 AM (M7kiy)

18 Whaleing should be limited, if whales go extinct many good foods and several skiwax products will disappear. Chickens? Just let meat chicken run around freely, they taste better afterwards (done some research). Egg-laying chickens need to be caged, or the eggs go all over.

Posted by: A Finn at April 14, 2005 04:10 AM (cWMi4)

19 Oh well, the most interresting article this far has died...

Posted by: A Finn at April 15, 2005 12:42 AM (lGolT)

20 Brad, I like whales. The Japs like whales. Only they can them.
Seen a special on National Geographic about cats. In Austrailia the Aborigine women hunt them with clubs and eat them. They apparently are destroying the native species.
I have two cats. Both tom cats. They live in the barn. The white one hangs around. The orange one sort of hangs anywhere. The fight about one a week. You can hear them a mile away. My wife's little loud mouthed, worthless dogs like the cats. My big farm dogs would like to eat them.

One of my friends wife has 21 cats. A true cat nut. She goes to the animal shelter everyday and cleans the cages and such. Then once a week these animal rights nuts have a party and put dogs to sleep in the name of saving them??? I think they are weird are enjoy it. I once told her I didn't trust animal rights nuts because they kill little puppy dogs. She didn't speak to me of two years. Her husband told her the same thing but it didn't work. She never stopped bitching at him about the horrible situation poor animals are in. Her mother died in Florida last month. I asked when she leaving for the funeral. Said she could'nt go. Had to care for her 21 cats. I offered to feed them while she went to her mother's funeral. Said she could'nt possibly leave her cats in the hands of others. She would worry to much. I asked her what would happen if she died. She said she left instructions to have them all euphemized.
A true cat lover.

Posted by: greyrooster at April 15, 2005 04:15 AM (7480p)

21 We used to have a plague of feral cats hanging around the dumpsters at the local strip mall. They opened a vietnamese restaurant in the mall. No more cat problem.

Posted by: greyrooster at April 15, 2005 04:17 AM (7480p)

22 I don't recommend the hot and spicy chicken. I have been told that every once in a while someone finds a hair in the chicken. Don't believe chickens have hair.

Posted by: greyrooster at April 15, 2005 04:20 AM (7480p)

23 What do you call a person from the Eastern Hemisphere who has 5 cats?

........a rancher

Posted by: Brad at April 15, 2005 08:05 AM (M7kiy)

24 Growing up , we always had dogs. I remember my junior year in college our last dog died. My little sister had just gone away to school. My parents were alone. When I came home for Christmas, my dad had a cat. I could not believe it. Came home for spring break and he had 3.
Now dad has one but puts a bowl out in the back for the neighborhood cats. There are probably 10 cats and a couple of racoons who stop by and get the welfare meal my dad provides.
I'm afraid he is getting a little nuts with cats. I mean 10?
I gotta say it...His house has this funkey cat oder, like the litter box is on week 4 and is maxed out on cat slugs.

Wonder if some enterprising immigrant family has thought of opening a new resturant in the woods of Wisconsin.

Posted by: Brad at April 15, 2005 08:24 AM (M7kiy)

25 Those who dont want their cats shot should kep them at home and not allow them to wander all around and tell PETA to screw themselves

Posted by: sandpiper at April 15, 2005 09:52 AM (9RChR)

26 Brad I'm finding three miles a day and beer no longer works. I will follow you and increase to 5 miles.
If you feed the cats outside the racoons will come to the cat food. Then the coons will start eating your chickens. Down here the coyotes catch and eat the cats,coons and chickens.
Therefore, in conclusion, cats must taste like chicken.
Perhaps the Vietnamese restauratuers are on to something. Instead of taking stray cats to the humain society where they kill them at great expense. Better to put the protein to good use. Drop stray cats at the restaurant. All Vietnamese restaurants should be required to have a cat drop off box in front. End of excess cat problem.
Only on a conservative blog could an age old problem be solved so quickly. Even have international help from the finns.
Do they have cats in Finland? Is that where the expression cool cats came from? Probably started with cold cats.

Rode my Harley through the Wisconsin Dells one time in late May. Absolulely beautiful.

Posted by: greyrooster at April 16, 2005 07:39 AM (sB5vg)

27 Laurence Simon: We already shoot people and cows. It would be unfair not to shoot cats to. Equality for all.

Posted by: greyrooster at April 16, 2005 03:12 PM (DAWnL)

28 why shoot cats i bealieve that if that got past people would be careless and shoot what ever cat they seen with or with out a proof that it is stray. so their will be alot of on happy people loosing their prid and joy. cats are apart of people birds aren't cuddly.

Posted by: Tara Aikin at April 22, 2005 09:26 AM (3BS3e)

29 Make your opinion known before the Conservation Congress meets to review this issue!
For those against cat hunting: www.nocatstamp2005.com
For those who believe cat hunting should be allowed: www.catstamp2005.com

Posted by: Fat Cat at April 23, 2005 10:21 PM (jCfc/)

30 I am a 17 yr old resident in northcentral Wisconsin. I am doing a persuasive essay on cat hunting. I believe that feral cats should be hunted. Many people are making s big deal about it and I don't really understand that. If people care so much about their cats, they should put a collar on them or keep them fenced in. Feral cats are just wild cats which are causing a problem in some areas, not the beloved felines. I just want them to be designated unprotected so I can legally shoot them if i need to. The whole idea wasn't to have a season, but to remove a problem.

Posted by: eric at May 02, 2005 08:13 AM (9l9ZF)

31 i live in a small town in north east wisconsin and we have a big problem with the feral cats the eat our chickens and our song birds, which means that many of our preditors such as hawks coyotes foxes .... loose a major food sorce so the cats have to go so we can have a more healthy population of the natral preditors

Posted by: kill them all at May 12, 2005 03:05 PM (kELSD)

32 i think that cats should be hunted because they are very ugly and evil, they are not mans best friend, in fact they are no ones friend. Plus they kill birds and take the food of owls.

Posted by: cassie at May 20, 2005 02:15 PM (unpqr)

33 what is this world coming to that you would be able to hunt cats.
what will be next hunting humans...........legally.

Posted by: fran at June 10, 2005 08:31 PM (ywZa8)

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