Chris Packham of the provisional wing of the anti-cat (and anti-people) movement wants a cat curfew to stop them killing wildlife. Of course his fundamentalist views on the matter are hardly unknown, but, yet again, we are regaled with how awful cats are.
Domestic cats and rabbits are wrecking natural eco-systems and could have an ‘apocalyptic impact’ when they go ‘feral’, BBC Springwatch star Chris Packham has warned.
Bollocks, frankly. Utter, utter twaddle. “Feral” is the natural state. When we domesticated these animals, we controlled their spread. So, yeah, there are plenty of domestic cats about – but a damned sight less than uncontrolled feral colonies that have a sexually active queen producing thousands of progeny in her lifetime.
Has this twat not heard about neutering programmes? All of our animals are neutered, so there are no more generations being produced from them. And, yes, a couple of them are prolific hunters. Mice and rats are vermin. Cats are an effective form of low level pest control. That is why our symbiotic relationship developed in the first place.
Fuelling the debate, he told the Radio Times: ‘In Australia, introduced species such as foxes, rabbits, rats and cats have had an apocalyptic impact.
Here, though, they are not an introduced species – unless you want to go right back to the ancient civilisations, in which case we are an introduced species – and look what that did to the indigenous people of Australia, seeing as he wants to draw that comparison.
It is not the first time Packham has called on Britons to better control their pests and campaigned against the damage to wildlife done by domestic cats.
Last year he said: ‘Over 200 million animals are killed each year by domestic cats. If you keep them in at night it reduces that figure by 50 per cent.
Cats don’t just hunt at night. And, frankly, Packham can go fuck himself. I will manage my animals as I see fit – and the low level pest control is useful, frankly. Although I do wish they wouldn’t leave the green wobbly bits on the hallway carpet…
Packham is developing a name for his controversial views. He has previously argued pandas should be allowed to die out.
He supports the culling of deer in Britain and of elephants in Africa, claiming that ‘we have to play a pro-active role and that means killing things’.
He has also called for people to stop having children because the world is overpopulated.
Do we have a volunteer to be first in the queue?
Is there ANY raving bonkers fucking looney nutcase around today that does NOT get full press coverage, and a “serious hearing”?
This is the kind of shite that “old Fred” would come up with after ten Guinness in the snug on a Saturday night. NOW they are regularly getting the full blown media circus.
Pity Gene Roddenberry is not still alive. Todays Britain, would serve well as the setting for one of those wierd “alternative earth” planets that were so popular in the origional series. (The one where the nazis were still around, or the one where distgusting little street urchin bastards ran the world, for example).
Except, no one would believe it. Too far fetched.
Let’s start with the feral kids and their scrote parents first and leave the kitties alone.
SANE people who don’t want anything AT ALL to do with the fascist corrupt olympics are deliberately denied a hearing of any sort.
Culling deer – as long as we get to eat them (delicious)!
The man’s a prat.
I’ll set Ratatosk (FIERCE cream-coloured / well not too fierce!) on to him…..
XX Ratatosk XX
THAT is one cat that will never get stuck up a tree then, with so a name.
Apocalypse Meow 😀
“Over 200 million animals are killed each year by domestic cats”
An estimate, I presume.
Indeed, what else could it be? Do they follow every cat and monitor its hunting habits?
The RSPB doesn’t regard it as a huge problem and nor is it.
What I found more interesting was the instant “it won’t affect me but a cat shat in my garden once, so why not?” comments beneath.
It’s more evidence of the modern British psyche which is selfishly opinionated and entirely devoid of any respect for the lives or choices of others.
“I’m entitled” seems to cover it.
Oh, yeah you can always expect one of those cretins to raise their ugly heads. Other species also shit in gardens. In ours we get badgers – not only do they shit and leave it as a territory marker, they dig bloody great holes in the lawn. Perhaps Packham would like a badger curfew…
BBC employs environmentalist nut job. I’m astonished.
Well, yeah, bears and woods.
Overpopulated are we? Pity I don’t still have access to SLR (L1A7, not Single Reflex), I could organise a cull of the herd. Got a pretty good idea where to start as well…
The cat told me to post that…
As any decent cat who has you well trained would.
Cats don’t just hunt at night. And, frankly, Packham can go fuck himself.
Classic prose. 🙂
Packham should get all our support on him personally going out and attaching these new’electronic bleepers’ that he loves so much on all the feral cats he can find. His film crew should record the results 🙂