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Fur flies over plan to shoot feral cats

Seeded on Sun Jan 22, 2012 9:59 PM EST
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A plan to allow people to shoot cats found on public land has raised the ire of a Bendigo animal welfare group.

The Sporting Shooters Association of Australia's Victoria branch is lobbying the state government to allow its members to shoot cats in state and national parks, the Bendigo Advertiser reports.

The association's chief executive officer Don Piccoli said cats were destroying Victoria's wildlife and the government had to act

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Steven of Coulterville

I wonder if these guys would approve of hunters shooting them; after all, it sounds like these "Sporting Shooters" want to send bullets flying all over the place, not just endangering innocent cats, but innocent humans as well; they will become the only thing out there, wiping out everything that moves. How about hunting tags for these sport shooters? One shooter per tag.

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