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Originally Posted by netwolf
Jeanette, i needed some comic relief. But then i read the rest of the thread..
It is easier to do a thing than to undo it. We have domesticated animals for our own needs for companionship. Why are we not satisfied with the companionship of other human beings? We casually speak of desexing animals, is this not a cruelty? Simply to breed these animals as companions and then to take responsibility of protecting other animals by desexing or hunting those that are not that have been abandoned, is it not hypocritical? They need to be cared for, the must be desexed to protect others. Why dont we care for all of them and desex them all to protect us..
Or would it be better to live and let live and where possible help them along. To accept them as they are and not try to make them as we need them to be.
Regards
Fahim
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Its fine de-sexing them, but how are you going to catch and desex the multiudes of the damn things that live, breed, kill and die in the wild? For example, I've hunted the damn things 300km from the nearest town or house in the deserts of the Northern Territory, where the only water around must have been the blood of other native mamals.
Also, your garden varierty urban moggie doesn't lose its interest in snuffing just about everything it can catch just because it sleeps on the foot of your bed, or had its nads surgically removed.
It really comes down to how suitable for this country a pet cat really is. For example, if I wanted to import an exotic pest animal the customs at the airport would flog me for trying to import an animal that could threaten Australias A to Z crop etc. But its ok to have a domestic pet, that if it buggers off over the back fence for keeps, and drops a litter of kittens, it will wreak absolute havoc on native animals for generations. Which is precisely what has happened.
Maybe we should make it compulsory for cat owners to also own a Cane Toad?
Why won't cat lovers stick up for Cane Toads and the environmental damage they do? I know why, because cane Toads aren't 'cute and cudly', and nobody wants one sitting on their lap, let alone to pat it!
Lucky saltwater crocs don't have fur and purr when you scratch them behind the ear! There would be a lot less hippies in the world, and a few more content fat crocs!
