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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

then we should set out a bunch of coyotes,
to keep the feral cat population in check.

what could possibly go wrong?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sure, we could try it in Australia first. They love that kind of thing. It always goes great for them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Nah the coyotes would just all get eaten by the spiders

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Australia already has dingos, which are like coyotes except they eat babies instead of cats.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

You paint a whole house and nobody calls you a painter, but you eat one baby...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"So, we set coyotes loose to catch the cats. Then what? We get a wolf to eat the coyotes? Then we get a tiger to eat the wolf!? WHAT EATS THE TIGER, DAD - TELL ME THAT!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I mean you are partially right. Bringing back wolves would help in NA. They are supposed to be a part of the ecosystem and might help keep coyotes in check to a degree at least and would certainly keep killer deer population is n check. They were eliminated more out of fear than legitimate threat and killer deer have now far exceeded human threat compared to wolves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I like the way you think

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In Minnesota, we let five months of inhospitable winter do the dirty work for us.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've got bad news if you think cats don't survive winter... And I'm living in a more northern region too...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It definitely culls our local population.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Or there is just more predation in the winter, more starvation, or more car strikes; you don't know it's the cold

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't understand your point. I'm saying the effects of an inhospitable winter environment does quite a bit of the dirty work for keeping feral cat populations in check. Were you agreeing with me?