Was a woman who lived in north central PA. Her property backed up against the State Forest , she loved her cats so she ended up with about 30+ cats. Some went feral actually most of them were like farm cats real skittish around humans.

Turns out her cats were reeking havoc with the Game Commissions Turkey management program in that area. Ruffled Grouse were also taking a hit.

She was asked to cut down on the number of cats but refused. Gossip was she was having an affair with one of the local Game Wardens so the cats were left alone. Her cats were safe until the woman dumped the man in uniform.

He retaliated by joining into a joint effort with the state conservation effort to re-introduce Fishers.
http://www.outdoorcentral.com/mc/pr/03/05/20a5.asp
As mentioned the Ex girlfriends property was right up against the Sproul State Forrest. More gossip says that at least 4 pairs of Fishers were turned out in this area. (Her Back Yard) End result was a marked decrease in the cat population.

I have also spent time in Australia where it is said that every well dressed bush man should own a cat fur cap.

Cats As an introduced species to the continent (along with the Rabbit, Cane Toad, Camel, Red Fox and other introduced man made disasters) Feral cats are reported to be responsible for the extinction of many smaller species of the marsupial family. Species of critters only found in Australia.

Its just too extensive to sum up…..

The state of South Dakota has announced that it will issue more deer tags for the hunting season this year. Why? Too many deer, plain and simple. But the BEST way to control the deer population is naturally and that requires predators. But the state fish & game morons have other plans.

Not only are they going to continue the attack on coyotes, America’s finest fawn hunter, they are are now planning to permit cougar hunting. So on one hand we have too many deer but on the other they want to kill off the very animals best suited to control them!
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I wonder if this is the same person who thought the firefighters should have rescued the coyote and said that the coyote posed no harm to the firefighters because it would react as a pet if it were being rescued. “clinging to it’s rescuer”. Someone should tell that to the guy who’s “loving” pet bit the end of his finger off

The ignorance comes from not knowing anything about that which he/she speaks except to blame humans because there are human/wild animal conflicts. It’s ignorance because this person doesn’t or won’t recognize that if it wasn’t FOR the hunters he/she so much despises, he/she wouldn’t have any coyotes to “fawn” over. (excuse the expression).

The hypocrisy comes in a vein attempt to save the coyote as if it is somehow more worth saving than any other of the creatures on this planet, including cats. It’s the attitude of let’s kill all the cats to feed the coyotes.

And the contradictions come from stating the importance of the coyote to this person’s view of an ecosystem and yet finding little or no value in anything else.

The contradiction comes because the person fails to see that man is part of the chain of predators and that in his/her world killing all cats is justified because he/she don’t like cats but killing deer and other game animals as a means of a proven scientific approach to management isn’t justified because it’s all man’s fault.

I would suppose that my post was not fair in that I was able to come away from the site with a better understanding and wasn’t able to convey it to the reader. In my own haste to rant and rave a bit, I can confess the post was more a form of therapy for myself than informational to the reader.

My bad!