The crazy cat lovers come out of the woodwork as a local ecologist studies the impact of feral cats on birds. As any objective scientist should, he has carefully studied the issue, and refuses to take a stand either for or against the "hunting" of feral cats, or, more properly, a property-owner's ability to kill a feral cat on his property. He's received death threats from people too fanatical or too ignorant to carefully read the study, people who think he supports the hunting, and blast him for that, or people who blast him for not taking a stand against it.
I'm finally going to say it, in big, bold letters: What the hell is wrong with Dane County? This county is so chock full of bleeding-heart liberals and tree-hugging hippies that they can't see outside their narrow tunnel of vision. The man did a freakin' study, humanely, I might add, and people are treating him like he's the Antichrist. Get a life, people! Clearly, these people don't understand the damage that tame domestic cats can cause on birds and vermin species, much less feral cats. Pound-for-pound, domestic cats are the deadliest hunters in the cat family, capable of preying on anything smaller than them, and likely to do so, not because they need to, but simply because they can.
Have any of these people even seen a feral cat? They’re not the soft, cuddly cats that pad around the house. They’re lean, scruffy, bedraggled, skittish, and mean animals a short step away from wildness. I'm guessing that most of the people crying foul are city-dwelling pansies that have never seen the brutality of living in the country, and if that's the case, that explains a lot about life around Madison.
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