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August 2009
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed a cruel plan to kill all the feral cats on San Nicholas Island--that's as many as 200--using leghold traps and hunters with dogs.
Feral cats have lived on San Nicolas Island, located off the coast of southern California, for more than 50 years. The Fish and Wildlife Service claims that removing cats from the island is necessary to restore seabird populations. However, the FWS has no evidence that cats are threatening the populations of birds and other species on San Nicolas Island. Worse, even if the Fish and Wildlife Service had any evidence that removing cats is necessary, the ill-advised plan does not consider the use of Trap-Neuter-Return to humanely reduce the population of cats on San Nicolas Island. Read Alley Cat Allies' comments. Read comments from The Humane Society of the United States. Photo courtesy Alley Cat Allies. 3 CommentsLeave a comment |
(Ok, don't know what happend with my comment being added before I finished! LOL!)
Anyways...
According Alley Cat Allies response, they haven't been linked to the destruction of the bird population. Why not consider TNR, or as the HSUS suggests, humanely trap them and let them be evaluated for adoptiong, etc. Leghold traps! NO! That's inhumane! Work with ACA and the HSUS for better resolve of this!
Who would pay for a trap-neuter-return program? If those stray cats are that important to some save the cats group, I'm sure the fish and wildlife service would be glad to let them pay for it all.
Who would pay for a trap neuter return program? If those stray cats are that important to some save the cats group, I'm sure the fish and wildlife service would be glad to let them pay for it all.