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Title: New Jersey Could Re-Classify Feral Cats, And Allow Hunting. Not For Haz.
Post by: twyacht on March 13, 2010, 04:53:02 PM

http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20100313/COMMUNITIES/303130002/Animal-groups-Could-ruling-lead-to-hunters-shooting-cats
Animal groups: Could ruling lead to hunters shooting cats?

The cat: Common, popular house pet or exotic, dangerous animal?

A number of animal activists have contacted state officials in an effort to head off a potential reclassification of feral cats, which could end the growing number of programs that trap, neuter and return them back into neighborhoods or the wild, and allow them to be hunted.

Such a reclassification could bring an end to TNR programs like those in Morristown, Mount Olive, Netcong, Boonton and Randolph, and could allow hunters to shoot cats.

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More at link.

P.S. DO NOT TELL HAZ!!!!

Title: Re: New Jersey Could Re-Classify Feral Cats, And Allow Hunting. Not For Haz.
Post by: Hazcat on March 13, 2010, 04:57:07 PM

HEY!  No reason to get mean just cause I scooped ya on the black helicopter thread!

;)
 

Title: Re: New Jersey Could Re-Classify Feral Cats, And Allow Hunting. Not For Haz.
Post by: philw on March 13, 2010, 05:03:02 PM

love shooting feral cats     ;D ;D   

the numbers here are ridiculous

and the amount of native animals that they kill   

Title: Re: New Jersey Could Re-Classify Feral Cats, And Allow Hunting. Not For Haz.
Post by: alfsauve on March 13, 2010, 05:15:45 PM

It's a balancing act in my yard.  The cats (feral and just plains on the loose) help keep the rat, mouse and chipmunk population under control, or so I'd like to think.   

Title: Re: New Jersey Could Re-Classify Feral Cats, And Allow Hunting. Not For Haz.
Post by: tombogan03884 on March 13, 2010, 07:03:48 PM

This has nothing to do with "Guns" or "Hunting". Read close, it's about money.

"which could end the growing number of programs that trap, neuter and return them back into neighborhoods or the wild,"

Those programs receive government funding. The lefties don't want to lose that money.

Title: Re: New Jersey Could Re-Classify Feral Cats, And Allow Hunting. Not For Haz.
Post by: SwoopSJ on March 13, 2010, 08:02:58 PM

Quote from: tombogan03884 on March 13, 2010, 07:03:48 PM

This has nothing to do with "Guns" or "Hunting". Read close, it's about money.

"which could end the growing number of programs that trap, neuter and return them back into neighborhoods or the wild,"

Those programs receive government funding. The lefties don't want to lose that money.

10 ring on that one, Tom.  Don't get me wrong, I'm an animal lover (and hunter) and I am totally against any form of animal cruelty, however, why should we waste tax dollars capturing and neutering cats?  There are an infinite number of ways that money could be better spent.

Swoop

Title: Re: New Jersey Could Re-Classify Feral Cats, And Allow Hunting. Not For Haz.
Post by: Big Frank on March 13, 2010, 08:12:34 PM

There's no closed season or daily limits on feral cats here. I think that's how it should be.

Title: Re: New Jersey Could Re-Classify Feral Cats, And Allow Hunting. Not For Haz.
Post by: PegLeg45 on March 13, 2010, 08:52:12 PM

Does this mean that Haz can't visit Jay?





 ;D

Title: Re: New Jersey Could Re-Classify Feral Cats, And Allow Hunting. Not For Haz.
Post by: jaybet on March 14, 2010, 11:15:39 AM

ahh... if only it were bureauCATS...