Bring in the fishers!
March 1st, 2008
Do you think feral cat enthusiasts would be so, uh, enthusiastic about catch-neuter-release if, say, nature corrected the imbalance and bumped said cats from the apex predator ladder?
Something wild tore a chunk out of Fortune the cat last fall, so when his owner, Diana Cooper, saw a weasel-like animal screaming on her neighbor’s lawn one night this spring, she was sure she had found the attacker.
Next thing you know, feral cat enthusiasts will be clamoring for trap-and-kill programs for these beasts! Indeed:
“It’s on my property and it’s killing my cats,” she said. “I want this thing killed.”
To that end, Wallace and Assistant Animal Control Officer Rosemarie Bishop received permission from New Hampshire Fish and Game to place traps in Wallace’s back yard.
The traps, which are not lethal, caught nothing for two weeks. Then last Wednesday, Wallace checked on the trap and found a fisher inside.
“He was just in there, quiet. He was actually kind of cute,” she said. “It makes me feel a little bit better knowing that we got the one that’s been hanging around my house.”
The fisher that was caught in the trap was shot and killed.
Domesticated and feral cats are apparently fine outdoors (even though they aren’t native to North America); but wild indigenous animals… no way! Trap and kill ‘em!
(Now wouldn’t things be so much better if cats were kept indoors and castrate/spay was the law of the land?)
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