Bardot Slams Aus Cat Cull

[icyfroth]

French actress Brigitte Bardot has condemned an Australian plan to cull two million feral cats, blamed for wreaking havoc on native animals, to stop them further harming vanishing populations.

Feral cats have been identified as the main culprit behind Australia's high rate of mammal extinction, with more than 10 percent of species wiped out since Europeans settled here two centuries ago. 

Environment Minister Greg Hunt has said the advice he has received is that the cats number 20 million across the country and devour countless native animals every night."They are tsunamis of violence and death for Australia's native species," he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation last week.

Hunt said a target of eradicating two million feral cats had been set for 2020, in addition to creating feral-free enclosures to aid the recovery of birds and mammals among other measures.

The government has stressed the eradication of cats will be carried out humanely, but Bardot urged the government to reconsider the plan which she said was "appalling" to the international community.

"This animal genocide is inhumane and ridiculous. In addition to being cruel, killing these cats is absolutely useless since the rest of them will keep breeding," she said in the English translation of the open letter to Hunt. 

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Animal Genocide? Of Cats? What planet is this lady living on?

Everybody knows I love cats, but I'm realistic enough to understand the damage feral cats are doing to our native animals. There needs to be a cull.

How does she suggest we bring the numbers down otherwise?

Make Akubra hats out of them? 

[*pepe]

meh, who cares what some foreign former actress thinks about how this country saves its wildlife - although she is right about one thing - we need to wipe out far more of them than just 2 million to make a real impact.

[tasfleur]

[imastawka]

lol tas  -  totally unnecessary.

She already sneers at me with her curled lip

[electric*mayhem*band]

Brigitte Bardot ? ? ? Is she still breathing ? I thought she'd died out with the Dodo bird.

The culling seems a good idea to me. Appears to have been well thought out, and practical.

Now I wish Elizabeth Truss would do the same for us regarding the screeching, squawking, filthy, avaricious, dangerous, and aggressive seagull infestation in our towns, cities, and villages. 90% of these flying catastrophes have never seen the sea, with their webbed feet being superfluous to requirements.

As a matter of fact and oddly enough, as I'm typing this, this very subject is about to be discussed on the ITV news bulletin.

[icyfroth]

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@electric*mayhem*band wrote:

Brigitte Bardot ? ? ? Is she still breathing ? I thought she'd died out with the Dodo bird.

The culling seems a good idea to me. Appears to have been well thought out, and practical.

Now I wish Elizabeth Truss would do the same for us regarding the screeching, squawking, filthy, avaricious, dangerous, and aggressive seagull infestation in our towns, cities, and villages. 90% of these flying catastrophes have never seen the sea, with their webbed feet being superfluous to requirements.

As a matter of fact and oddly enough, as I'm typing this, this very subject is about to be discussed on the ITV news bulletin.

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Actually I was surprised at the size of the seagulls in England. Kings Lyn and Whitby etc.

Ours are a bit smaller and more streamlined. Their call is a bit different too.

[1966kelso]

My neighbours shot a feral cat a few nights ago. It weighed 9.8 kilos! It was huge, and had been killing lambs.

[lionrose.7]

We have some Huge seagulls in NZ, they could carry away a small dog

[b3llag1na]

I don't think that Ms Bardot understand s exactly what a feral cat is.

They are truly wild, and after a few generations of breeding generally much larger than domestic cats ,and vicious killers.

Years ago when we lived on the edge of town we had to lock our desexed male up for safety because a local feral cat kept trying to kill him. It was HUGE, and not at all afraid of our dog. 

[janeababe]

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@1966kelso wrote:

My neighbours shot a feral cat a few nights ago. It weighed 9.8 kilos! It was huge, and had been killing lambs.

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Really? 
Interesting!

My beautiful loving  *part-of-my-familiy* Mrs Black and Mrs White (my chooks) were killed a few weeks ago. Free range since early 2012.
Both had their head missing. We live in town, and I was advised it would have been a fox!  But a feral cat might make more sense, if its true (or possible)