30 000 feral cats

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Originally Posted by MikePal

Firearm discharge rules would restrict any activity in or around most towns..

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On your farm, or outside of the areas covered by no discharge that would not apply, what else says no?

By the way I find that many of the discharge by laws are very cut and dry. By that I mean that if the no discharge area is defined a line running down a road, simple being on the other side is all it takes to be legal to discharge. In some cases the no discharge area is only a part of the city limits, or there are exemptions written into the by law for different things like farms.

Up my way they had to enact a bye law because one person in the Hamlet kept adopting and feeding feral cats.Now she feeds the local deer and they are all in town. Outside of the hamlet I have not seen one survive beyond a winter, to many animals in the bush make meals of them.

Our neighborhood has the absolute best cat control around and it's not costing us a nickle.......Fishers and Coyotes.

The first thing to do is to pass a bylaw against these idiots called "colony managers" who are organized and feeding these cats on mass. A hefty fine should reduce their efforts, making these ferals range further for food and closer to the coyotes.

Encouraging trappers to engage in the problem is another arrow in the quiver of solutions. To be clear, IMHO they need to be eliminated (dead) by any humane mechanism(s).
We need to treat this issue as feral cats being yet another predator in the food chain that needs to be managed. I don't think anyone wants a growth in the coyote population near urban areas because cats because a staple food source.

One winter when I used to do a lot of bunny hunting I got 18 cats!
I'm 60 now.. you do the math! I've shot them with songbirds in their mouth!
I swear my one hound like chasin cats better then any thing else.
One day the dog crawled in a huge brush pile and came out with a cat. couple shakes - dead cat. she went in 5 more times yup 5 more cats.
one tough SOB hound - and a female to boot! fantastic dog.. loved kids and slept in the house on cold nights!
I don't understand all the discussion on this. you see feral you shoot!

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Originally Posted by SK33T3R

I don't understand all the discussion on this. you see feral you shoot!

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Not everyone is sure of the where and when or if you can legally do that.

My question still has not been answered. "Can anyone show me where it says that you can not shoot feral cats?"

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Originally Posted by Snowwalker

Not everyone is sure of the where and when or if you can legally do that.

My question still has not been answered. "Can anyone show me where it says that you can not shoot feral cats?"

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SHOW ME WHERE IT SAYS YOU CAN'T!

When I was a kid our hunter safety instructor (he was a cop) told us to shoot them all!
You do need some discretion and of course dispose of the corpse discretely.
I wouldn't hang it on the meat pole!

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Originally Posted by Snowwalker

My question still has not been answered. "Can anyone show me where it says that you can not shoot feral cats?"

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Already answered...if it's in your back yard and you live in the city limits you CANNOT shoot it..not because it's a cat but because of discharge laws.

Since they are not a native species to Ontario, there is no 'law' governing/protecting them. So in areas were the discharge of firearms it permitted...bye-bye kitty.

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[COLOR=#000000]Two important themes to keep in mind during this discussion are firstly, that the legal status of feral cats is quite ill-defined, and must necessarily be developed and inferred from legal first principles. The law tends to focus on either 'domestic animals' or 'wild animals', two categories which ferals straddle. There is next to no case law on this issue that I am aware of in Ontario.

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[COLOR=black]On the other hand, 'feral cats' - being cats which were once domestic but have now 'gone wild', and their offspring - straddle both the wild and the domestic legal categories. Were they native North American species (which they are not) they would no doubt flow seamlessly back into the 'wild' category such as a pet raven might if it escaped or was set free, and fall under the governance of Ontario's Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act - which is essentially a hunting and fishing regulation law.

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If you want to read thru this paper on the legal status of 'Feral' cats and the law...be my quest;

http://www.isthatlegal.ca/index.php?...og_cat_control

My take..SSS to ensure no one complains.

Now if bill 246 gets past; even if you live out in the country, it might be illegal to shot a feral cat :)

Trail Cam about 1 mile back into the bush...

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...MDGC0010-1.jpg

Some years ago there was a feral cat shoot at the local dump. It was done after dark with lights and the approval of the local MNR. This was not hunting, so hunting regs did not apply. It was invite only but the kill was quite high, surprising most of the local people who had no idea there were that many cats around.