Mass invasion from Melmac.
Gordon Shumway (ALF) liked to eat cats.
And his species was intelligent enough to leave other species alone.
That makes his kind the perfect species to introduce to control this problem.
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Does anyone remember the cartoon version of this show?
I do.
It included an intro that including some singing cats that never appeared in the show!
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Many years ago, when Paul Hogan(the Aussie actor that portrayed “Crocodile Dundee”) had a T. V. comedy/variety show(that guy is a hoot!), and because Australia has a serious feral cat overpopulation problem too, he did a hilarious skit(well, perhaps not very funny to many cat lovers) on opening a cat hunting season, with all the pomp and sporting aspect accorded to other “game” animals–I wonder if anyone could find that on U-tube or somewhere(I certainly am not able to as a computer cripple)…….
Dude, Alf IS the answer!
I’ve wanted to say that sentence all my life.
Coyotes don’t do so bad in that department. I’ve always wondered if one of the reasons for their expansion into urban areas throughout the US has not been so much the elimination of wolves but the rats, mice and “small pets” (small dogs & cats) available in cities. I really haven’t noted a coyote explosion in rural areas — they have moved in to replace wolves, but not in dense numbers. You actually have a better chance of spotting a coyote in Los Angeles than in the rural areas of LA County. Cats and small dogs are more able to fight back than rabbits, but they are still just about perfectly “coyote dinner size”.
TNR may work to some degree in cities where there IS a rodent issue that requires control, but cats really don’t kill rodents to the degree that most rat terriers would. Feeding feral cats should be prohibited. If they are supposed to be feral, let them be feral. Feeding artificially enlarges the population of unowned cats. In most of Southern CA, the local bobcats tend to prevent cats that survie the coyotes from establishing themselves in rural areas.
vr, Peggy Richter
Where I live (in the East), they are everywhere. They are almost as common as stray dogs.
My heelers have ALWAYS taken care of the rat/mice population FAR better than any cat.
I was once adopted by an outside cat who was extremely proficient at killing the local wildlife and depositing it on my back stoop. I tied all manner of bells around her neck to cut down on this but that darn cat would overcome the attempted hindrance in 2 weeks or so and go right back to bringing me “gifts”!
After cleaning up many dead neighbors cats in my backyard I have finally hung a sign….”BEWARE! Cat eating Dogs!” I refuse to be screeched at for the death of unattended pets!
Shadygrove, I tried hanging up warning signs, but I found that most of the cats in my area can’t read….:)
LOL!