It's Not The Cats Who Deserve Shooting

Shooting feral cats won't solve Wisconsin's feral cat problem, according to Gordon Aalborg. Aalborg is the author of the highly-acclaimed Cat Tracks, a novel which addresses the feral cat problem from the cat's point of view.

(PRWEB) April 16, 2005 -- "If they want bullets to solve the problem, then shoot the people who create the feral cat problem by discarding unwanted cats like they were trash," says Aalborg.

"Feral cats are created by thoughtless, callous, uncaring, ignorant people," he adds. "The problem is, you'd have to shoot an awful lot of people, and it still wouldn't solve the problem. It is with us forever, now."

Aalborg, a keen amateur naturalist who spent half his life in Australia where feral cats are a serious and legitimate threat to native wildlife, wrote his classic novel as a personal outlook on the problem.

"Feral cats in Australia are a serious ecological problem, but then so is every animal and many plant species brought in by European society," he says. "Everything from horses to donkeys to goats, cats, rabbits, foxes, dogs, cattle, sheep, and we might as well say European people as a species have all been an ecological disaster for Australia.

"But is shooting going to accomplish anything? Not likely! It is common in rural areas of Australia and solves nothing. It won't in Wisconsin, either. The only solution - if there is one - is educating people, especially young people, about responsible pet ownership.

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