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Quick summary - Still under review by the city.
Here are several new informational sources. 1. An official with the California Department of Fish and Game emailed on 5-26-09 that they have updated their website on the matter of TNR and feral cats. The URL is very long, however. The easiest way to find it is by searching "Ca. Gov Department of Fish and Game." Then search on that website for "Cats and Wildlife". It should be the first item that comes up. 2. Doctor Travis Longscore (USC) and associates has published an essay on TNR this year in the journal Conservation Biology. Its title is "Critical Assessment of Claims Regarding Management of Feral Cats by Trap-Neuter-Return." The team did an exhaustive scientific literature search and evaluated almost 100 previous studies with the literature cited and listed at the end of the article. I cannot find the article on line. If you search under Travis Longscore you can find the abtract. Here is a portion: "Advocates promoting TNR often claim that feral cats harm wildlife only on islands and not on continents; fill a natural or realized niche; do not contribute to the decline of native species; and are insignificant vectors or reservoirs of disease. Advocates also frequently make claims about the effectiveness of TNR, including claims that colonies of feral cats are eventually eliminated by TNR and that managed colonies resist invasion by other cats. The scientific literature contradicts each of these claims." A copy of the article will be submitted to the Mayor and Council at the appropriate time, so should be available on the record when the issue comes before them. I do not have the time to make copies at this time for the interested public. |
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So should we just shoot the non-native human species or trap and release? You can't stop the REAL threat to native species so you are projecting. We wouldn't even have to kill ourselves to cut back the native deaths 100 times over what killing cats would do, but just change some of our selfish habits. We are killing the earth and its inhabitant, not cats.
We've killed off most of the natural predators to native species as well.
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As if one can trust the DF&G with much of anything, after all they’ve done so well with the salmon. You can cite study after study and you can be matched with another study that will refute each and every study you provide. You lied, mislead and manufactured misinformation when it came to the Dutra project. It’s very evident that you’ve developed a rather predictable track record of deceit and smoke and mirrors to accomplish your goal of “My way at any cost”.
Your kitty holocaust for the past five years has done NOTHING to reduce the number of feral cats. All you have done is taken up the time of people employed by the city to trap feral cats (and I’m sure some domestic cats in the process). You have cost the city an untold amount of money (it’s untold because NO ONE is willing to provided the costs) in sheltering trapped cats and killing them. What you have advocated is nothing short of torture (that would make Abu-Greb look like Disneyland), keeping cats in cages for up to 30 days (yes, I have proof) living in terror and then killing them. Real humanitarians, aren’t you? You had your five years and it is living (actually dead) proof that “just kill them” doesn’t work! You’re a FAILURE! You owe the taxpayers of Petaluma an apology. Your reign of terror in Petaluma will be coming to an end! |
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Bob, you said before you only cared about Feral Cats not being in the Wetlands or Shollenberger Park. If the proposed ordinance still does not allow them in those areas are you going to be a man of your word and not oppose the ordinance? Please be a man and reply.
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Come on Watchdog....these "my way or the highway" people don't respond to stuff like that. They have the city by the testicals and they won't let go...they'll just squeeze harder! You watch, there will be little compromise when this issue comes up to the City Council. These people donate too much money to the people that are elected.... It happened when PCA darned near went belly-up because the perps that sent PCA down the tubes were contributors to the candidate's campaigns. They got away scott-free...with money! Its the same here.......
Hey Bob! Cat Hater Bob! Here's a new web site that you can pass on to all your cat hating buddies Link . There are games you can play like "Cat Bowling", Cat-Vac Catapult, "Cat Death Auto" and (my favorite) "Kick The Kitty". I'm sure you and all your PWA friends will have alot of fun with these games. If you ever sucessfully get rid of all the cats within a hundred miles of your beloved park, you can always fall back on these games to reminise........ENJOY! |
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Petaluma360 360 Chatter Discussions Clubs, groups and organizations Petaluma Wetlands Alliance Feral Cat Animal Service Regulations
360 Chatter Discussions Clubs, groups and organizations Petaluma Wetlands Alliance Feral Cat Animal Service Regulations