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[skillionaire]

When is money not money

[Harry88]

You have no idea how many times I've heard that today. 

 

YOU CUBTS ARE EARNING INTEREST ON MY MONEY AND I CANT ACCESS IT!

 

Tell them to store it under their mattress. 24/7 access mate.

[Reevesy]

 
Arguable, although I don't know the details or how much of an impact they have. The pests and feral animals I do know about include cane toads, rabbits, foxes, camels, deer, goats, horses, pigs and buffalo. Each have a negative impact in various areas but I don't think cats make up the highest percentage of damage to Australia.

Not arguable. Fact. Cats kill for the fun of it. One study found on average a cat would kill around 7 native animals a night, wether it be small reptiles, birds or small mammals. I can t remember the estimate of feral cats but I believe it was around 3 million. That means there is 21 million native animals being killed each night on average. And when you see the size feral cats can grow to you start realising how much damage they could do.

[Liberty]

I don't know any facts so I'm not gonna argue against you. Interesting numbers.

[B4TT]

Cats
"The most widely spread and invasive of all introduced species. It is possibly responsible for the extinction of some species of small mammals."

[B4TT]

Holy fuck, that is a lot of the cubts. This if from the Aus Government department of environment.

Today there are about 18 million feral cats in Australia (McLeod 2004), distributed through all habitats (except some
of the wettest rainforests) in mainland Australia and Tasmania and on many offshore islands.

[Adam]

I bet if you hit a wombat it would do more damage than a cat........

[B4TT]

Should run over a bunch of cats and report back what damage/if any is done Radam.

[Harry88]

I bet if you hit a wombat it would do more damage than a cat........

 

Of course it would.

 

Hitting a wombat is like hitting a rock.

[Liberty]

I ran over a cat once. It obviously wasn't on its last life as it just shook it off and continued piss-bolting into the front yard of a house.

[Bumpty]

Not arguable. Fact. Cats kill for the fun of it. One study found on average a cat would kill around 7 native animals a night, wether it be small reptiles, birds or small mammals. I can t remember the estimate of feral cats but I believe it was around 3 million. That means there is 21 million native animals being killed each night on average. And when you see the size feral cats can grow to you start realising how much damage they could do.

+1

No idea how correct your figures are, but I agree haha
They aren't necessarily damaging in a physical sense, but to our native animals, they are every sense of the word.

[Liberty]

Bastards of things. I'm not anti-feline, but I do prefer a dog over a cat if I had the choice.

[B4TT]

Agree, I just think people shouldn't be allowed to keep the filthy rodent pieces of crap because they think they are cute when they do so much destruction to the native wildlife populations.
Order immediate exterminations of all cats and any owners who want to complain about it

[Bumpty]

Dr Carl brought up a story about cats in a study where they were thrown out of a 2 story building, and they kept going to 7 stories and they found at 7+ stories a cat would find it's terminal velocity and have enough time to relax (where as at 2 stories they would hit the ground before they could think) and therefore manage to survive the fall, some figure like 9/10 cats would survive.

There is that 9 lives shit we are all jelly legs over.

[Liberty]

Ha ha ha, I wanna see a cat be thrown out of the window that high to prove that theory.

[B4TT]

hahahah throwing cats off a building. What the hell kind of study did that?

[Harry88]

hahahah throwing cats off a building. What the hell kind of study did that?

 

Wouldn't animal groups have something to say about the study?

[Adam]

there's no way that study was conducted!

[simon]

wow.......so cats huh? 

[B4TT]

Wouldn't animal groups have something to say about the study?

That is what I was thinking!