Thread: Kiwi caught on CCTV in Broadmeadows Wellington

Originally Posted by Sauer

So you could justify to yourself killing the neighbour’s kid’s pet cat Micky, just because they couldn’t manage to coax it inside by 20.00?

We have a semi tame stray cat living in our barn. She keeps the mice and rats away, and does a bloody good job of it, but won’t come near the house as we have two dogs. She is spayed so doesn’t add to the cat numbers in the area. So according to you we should kill her as we cannot lock her up?.

I did some volunteer DOC-work on Great-Barrier years ago , we Live-caught cats to document how far they roamed and what areas , my 'colleague' didn't release-them as-instructed , but killed and gutted-them . They all contained highly-endangered lizards/gekhos , another occasion in the Central Nth-Island we put a tracking-device on the Moggy that lived in the Doc-accommodation , it traveled 4k into the forest which surprised a few . They are very-efficient Predators and definitely impact our Native species . We have five in our household , which is too-many I believe and we won't be replacing-them as they age and die . I personally would Ban them completely from our off-shore Islands . The largest wild-one I've seen was shot with a .243 in the Uraweras in the 70's , it was huge ( small-goat-size ), suggesting they are evolving