Neuter or neutralize?

Kind of reminds me of years ago at a Washington Trappers Rendezvous, a very knowledgeable, and legendary old coyote trapper (Jim Skoggins) was giving a demo on coyote trapping.

A person in the audience asked him if he ever caught incidental cougars in coyote traps, and if he did, how did he tranquilize them. Jim replied; "Yes, I do occasionally catch them, and I tranquilize them with a 30-06."

Some AR people are dedicated to the cause no matter how crazy it might be. We have a bird lady that shows up at our game department public meetings to try to stop or restrict forms of hunting or trapping.

get a blue heeler problem solved.

Maybe this is our answer to illegal immigration.

Or a west Siberian laika. The guy I got my laika from warned me; "laikas view house cats as game". Boy was he right.

My mountain cur was rough on cats. If they didn't beat him to the tree...

Any cat outside a couple hundred yards of an acreage around here gets the SSS treatment. Invasive species no different than Asian carp, snakehead, or any other creature we have here. Feral anything is not conducive to our native species.

They kill a lot more than mice. Rabbits, grouse, snipe, doves, quail, pheasants, Chukars, turkey's , partridges, muskrats, Prairie chickens, squirrels, both adults and babies, particularly the young.

I'd be interested how this is working where they been doing it? I doubt it's a very effective program where the population is a problem especially when u figure in the cost. Looks good on paper but I doubt the results accomplish the goal.

This is a religion/hobby/passion for a lot of those people. Through past history many cultures and religions have deified and worshipped animals. Hindu's, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism, It's not surprising that people in the U.S. have a religious fervor developing called "Animal Rights". People in past history have always formed some level of animal "Worship", read about the Golden Calf in the bible and that goes back thousands of years.

Every where I've been trapping there are field lions and free roaming dogs. You learn to deal with them.

I’d guess the goal in the end is to give them human like rights down the road in time no matter what their killing situation is the AR folks don’t care about reality really they are very single focused for a cause. When the tail bounty started here in SD the argument was the raccoons were OK but pheasants were the invasive species even though they are a huge part of our economy and coons are listed as a varmint. It’s thought that raccoons migrated to SD like the possum did making both an invasive species if you look at it that way.

Now if you posted a successful days group pheasant hunt I’m sure their response would be different then. LOL

My GSD just heard me say CAT; wakes him up out of even in a deep sleep.

We're gonna need lots of dogs then.

That’s a local/regional thing from what I’ve run into MO has a large amount of roaming dogs seeing dogs while hunting is not uncommon. SD you seldom see roaming dogs ever off of the Reservations. They just don’t last long in cattle country if not cared for.

Now cats Ive run into in the most remote places imaginable even the river breaks far from humans see a few on trail cams it’s rather surprising.

Can't shoot dogs in Virginia

Read about Australia and their feral cat problem..

With all these Chinese pouring across the southern border there might not be a feral cat problem for long, heck might even be a new market for cat meat.

The "other" white meat.

I've seen feral cats on the barrier beach 7 miles from the nearest bridge and about 15 to the nearest summer homes...they were in excellent shape and making it on their own...They do get around.