Uncollared cats on public land are considered feral pests. The lesser bilby is extinct and the greater bilby almost so. Cats are the reason. "Operation Bounceback", a National Parks and Wildlife Service initiative aimed at reintroducing native species to wilderness areas where they once flourished, started with a cull of feral species including more than 10,000 cats and a similar number of goats. Calicivirus took care of most of the rabbits, they're a nuisance now rather than a plague. Unfortunately, some criminally lazy cat owners prefer to dump kittens rather than spay their pets. The strongest survive, flourish and breed, at the expense of the marsupials.
This post was edited by Slartibartfast at June 15, 2022 1:15 PM MDT
We have those too, but a .22 won't stop a pig. A pig shooter's licence is a special one, the ordnance required to stop a charging pig isn't legal otherwise. I've seen footage of a pig keep coming with four .303s in its head.
I was up in WA State in 1990 and my outdoors based friend used to set up geese decoys by the ocean with a kazoo mimic and patiently wait with his rifle to shoot one down. He did not bag one while I was there. Just as well.You have to clean it if you shoot it and it takes a lot of work. My father went fox hunting I heard in The Blue Hills Reservation in the 30's and later was an entrenched fisherman to eat them. Late he made a nice stained glass window of a fox but I cracked it by hanging it to far up on the wall too carelessly. I left it in some bodies cellar.
This post was edited by CosmicWunderkind at June 14, 2022 8:12 AM MDT
Ha ha Durdle it should be one word. Hey! Do you know as soon as I turned 20, I got chosen as a juror on the Fort Devens murder case. I was a guilty decider. Tyree, a former U.S. Army private and Green Beret stationed at Fort Devens, was convicted in February 1980 of paying $5,000 to Pvt. Erik Y. Aarhus, a Green Beret friend, to kill his wife, Army Pvt. Elaine Tyree, on Jan. 30, 1979, in the family’s Ayer apartment. I am a little morbid.
This post was edited by CosmicWunderkind at June 14, 2022 8:13 AM MDT
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