Feral Cats Kill Night Parrot.

Phil the dead cats next to the road kill are also road kill and it is not unusual to see the carcase of the roo moving after everything has fled and a cat will appear from inside the rib cage. People in the cities do not realize how big some of these cats grow living on high protein diets in the wild, a tom can average over 6 Kg and female 4 to 5 kg monsters have been caught with huge dimensions weighing 20 kg ( 50 lb ) and with tails 600 to 700 ml long , held at shoulder height their noses will touch the ground. They average two litters a year and more if food is unlimited, some have been found with 25 skinks, dragons etc as well as grasshoppers, scorpions etc in their gut. There is other problems facing the eradication of the feral cats and that is Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts, when talking to a ranger at “Adel Grove” he was telling me about the biggest cat he had ever seen and when asked why he did not shoot it he stated that time he gets permission from head office to fire a gun in N. P. it was days wasted and not worth all the paper work. I have a good mate that was talking to the top man in the appropriate apartment in Victoria about getting a contract to poison Foxes on Government controlled Waste Water Farms where they were losing many lambs, he was advised to put in a submission but was asked ” To write slowly as we don’t have a clue what we are doing ” I passed the newspaper article to a mate in Melbourne and he tells me of his friends who were travelling through “Mungo National Park” N S W and ranger told them of seeing three wild cats bring down a roo, it was a first for them. They had been trapping dozens and putting them down humanely as by the book. Someone (Greenies) decided there must be a better way ????? Their traps have been in the shed for month until someone decides what to do. Very sad but typical of the dudes that now run Oz, to many decisions being made by inner city latte sippers that don’t know dirt from clay. This is not a new problem it has been epidemic for years, 30 years ago the army were brought in to shoot the cats sitting in the Letter-winged Kites nests around the Birdsville area. Barney.