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    2. ssracer on

      This should be done everywhere. They’re not endangered and destroy environments.

    4. -_Dean_Winchester on

      Lol i remember my city trying to do that in the early 2000s.. saw mdfs running with cartoon nets chasing cats

      Very understandably, they failed. Havent seen a wild lizard in 10 years now🥺

    7. Kamica on

      Subsidising desexing of cats, and introducing rolling laws which make it so that cats born after the point of legislation need to be indoor cats should probably also be looked into. 

      I do hate the thought of poisoning cats, but that being more the case with cats is probably them being beloved pets being a thing that plays up. I wish there were a way to handle these things that didn’t require Suffering on the side of the animals. But conservation is a tricky field…

    8. Select-Cash-4906 on

      Sad fact New Zealand was famous as perhaps the one place on the planet (bar say the Antarctica) where birds and only birds really dominated

      That’s why they have beautiful birds and land and flightless birds

      But the arrival of the Colonists was a ecological disaster, sheep, rats, and especially Cats have devastated New Zealands Avian Ecosystem

      It’s actually such a tragedy David Attenborough did a Documentary on it

    9. Konnnan on

      Why such extreme measures? The humane approach is to just start working on their laptops and all the cats will voluntarily come to block their screens.

    10. Caffinated914 on

      Sad cause I love cats. But absolutely necessary for biodiversity.

      The cats already have most of the rest of the planet. They don’t need New Zealand.

    11. Caladeutschian on

      Only if all house cats are neutered. Otherwise, feral cats reappear after a few years.

    12. Milkxhaze on

      I hate how they’re going about it.. but I also understand why.

      I love cats, favourite animal by miles, currently own 4, one of which was a stray.

      None of them go outside and unlike what people love to claim, they are all perfectly happy to be indoors. They are a domesticated animal, no one scoffs at folks for not letting their dogs free roam, same applies to cats but the lazy outdoor cat folks will just scream “abuser” at you because they can’t be bothered to actually give their cat indoor stimulation and think cats are “independent” and don’t need attention.

      Toys, cat trees, food games, even leashed time on the garden, there’s so many choices that don’t involve your cat roaming around at all hours, doing god knows what, it’s not good for the wildlife but it’s not good for the cats either, cars, wild animals (in some places) etc, all big risks.

    14. Demetre19864 on

      Although I had been a cat owner for many years, and allowed them to be outside.

      One day when they were given the most miraculous thing happened that really opened my eyes

      Days after our car was put down we heard the craziest thing.

      After living in our home for 6 years, we heard birds for the first time

      Like no joke our one cat had ensured that we really hadn’t heard a bird properly in 6 years in basically a whole city block.

      It really put in perspective how impressive a hunting machine a single minded cat can be, especially when they are killers for fun. Not sustenance

      Now I cringe every time I see neighbour hood cats in my yard where my massive oaks support about 20 squirrels , that then sustain osprey and other birds as well as of course lovely viewing entertainment.

      Sadly one neighbour with what appears to be two outdoor cats has somehwi reduced or scared off like 10 squirrels already and it you can see the localized damage to an ecosystem just in my backyard alone,let alone the thousands upon thousands of „house cats“ in the city

    16. Betonkauwer on

      Seething catowners who cant help their little ecocide-fluffballs are shit for anyone who doesnt own them or find them cute.

    17. Radioactdave on

      Good. 

      Cats should not be outside, period. They’re an invasive species.

    18. YqlUrbanist on

      I feel like this will ruffle a lot of feathers (metaphorically, literally it will ruffle fewer feathers). As a cat lover I really want the humane trap-neuter-release style of feral cat management to work, but in my experience it just doesn’t. Cats breed so quickly that unless you’re actually managing to catch 90+% of them consistently, they’re going to outbreed your program.

    21. Neandersaurus on

      Didn’t Europe try that once?

      Feral dogs are a menace because they roam in packs. I know of people that have been mauled to death, and near death, by them in the States. At least feral housecats don’t go around killing people.

    22. tuatantra on

      I do pest control in NZ. I trap and put down about 40 cats a year in one local area alone. My local landfill has told me that, sometimes when the dump trucks drop off their waste, kittens will fall out. Yes, some people put litters of kittens in their wheelie bins because they can’t get rid of them and I have to be the one who has to capture and put them down. It is not a glorious job. 

    25. Maccas75 on

      I think people from abroad don’t realise how much of a problem feral cats are to both Australia and New Zealand.

      Entire species have been eradicated or put on endangered lists because of them. They cause utter mayhem to our native wildlife – animals which aren’t found anywhere else in the world.

    26. Boom_Digadee on

      Great, ban breeding (no clue NZ laws on this), start spaying and neutering at all shelters, do adopt droves, educate, and you will reduce the population over time until… cats rule us anyway.

    29. lbktort on

      The native bird life of New Zealand is more important than the lives of feral cats. Domestic cats aren’t in danger of going extinct. It’s not a particularly nice choice for a government to have to make, but it is a logical one. They have to preserve the biodiversity of New Zealand for future generations.

    31. GBF_Dragon on

      An ok step, but honestly, if they can, they should ban all housecats from their country. I love kitties, but they’re devastating predators.

    32. Zarni_woop on

      How many pet cats will get caught up in this. This will cause a lot of misery and solve nothing without enforced neutering (which will also solve nothing)

    33. emp_mei_is_bae on

      Inc cat lovers defending outdoor cats destroying local bird populations

    34. famulan411 on

      I would like to preemptively congratulate feral cats on their victory against New Zealand.

    35. ComradKing on

      If you have an outside cat you deserve to get a call it was caught in a trap and subsequently put to sleep. Same thing if your dog is uncontained. I have no sympathy for lazy owners, control your fucking animals.

    36. Strong_Mulberry789 on

      While I can’t support killing feral cats I do support desexing all cats and I believe all cat’s need to be registered using the chips in a similar process to dog registration. Responsible ownership should mean indoor only cats to ensure the well-being of the cats and the environment.

    38. OHCHEEKY on

      New Zealand was decimated by ferrets and other animals left by colonisers which preyed upon their unique bird population, their strategy is protection of their remaining bird population

    41. jakhajay on

      Good luck, as long as scumbags keep dumping cats, the problem will never go away entirely

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