After my somewhat intemperate outburst regarding the publication of Professor Adrian Franklin’s piece in The Age earlier this week (I called it “the biggest load of crap this side of a dysentery epidemic”), Birding-Aus filled up for a day with far more useful posts than mine about the feral cat problem. I would like to thank all those people whose posts led me to links that I quickly assembled for an opinion piece of my own by way of reply. I was intending to do this anyway – but those replies saved me a lot of time in research, and I thank everyone who contributed to the topic. These replies need to be written quickly if they’re to be published, so it was a great help. I trust I haven’t plagiarised anyone! I did borrow the superb quote from Ross Macfarlane’s brother at the end, which I acknowledged, though not by name.
The piece appears in today’s Age, quite to my surprise (no one contacted me to tell me it was going in) – http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/a-feral-cat-is-not-a-metaphor-its-a-furry-killing-machine-20130112-2cmqi.html?rand=1357994295512
One thing that got edited out of my short bio at the bottom was that I keep my lilac-point ragdoll indoors!
Thanks again
Andrew ===============================
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