Giant feral cat monsters are wreaking havoc

[AiA in Atlanta]

these are domestic felines, right? why are they "super huge" "monsters"? have they mutated? if so, what is the source of radiation?

Giant feral cat monsters are wreaking havoc in Australia

Super huge feral cats in the Arnhem Land region of North Australia may be responsible for a sharp decline in the number of native mammal species there. The cats, which weigh like, 26-33 lbs each, stalk the countryside eating pretty much everything in sight. Which is probably why they’re so much bigger than Mr. Catface.

The cats have presented so much of a problem that Dr Graeme Gillespie, director of terrestrial ecosystems with the Northern Territory Department of Land Resource Management, has assembled a crack team of Western Scientists and Australian indiginous people with knowledge of the land in order to fight them, bare fisted.

Ok, no. Fine. They are not fighting the cats. They plan to track them and study them in order to measure what damage they are doing to the ecosystem, and then figure out the best solution for dealing with them. Let’s all hope that it involves domesticating them, because it would be pretty awesome to have a giant cat for a pet, right?

[mantra]

A couple of years ago a giant cat looking exactly like that collapsed in my garden from wounds and starvation. I went to pat him and he scratched me. I fed him anyway and made him comfortable, but I couldn't touch him and as he got better I had to use a broom when I went outside to keep him from leaping on me. He ended up getting fat and healthy, but vicious. I tried to get someone to help me get him up to the RSPCA, but no-one would go near him - even professional pet transporters and the council.

I was stuck with him for 18 months. He would eat 5 meals at a sitting and because he didn't know how to play he would make these giant leaps at me scaring me half to death. Visitors would go to pat him and he'd jump up and latch on to their arm biting into them deeply enough to produce a stream of blood. I would pat him using a one metre cardboard roll so if he decided to attack - I had time to get out of the way.

Finally a brave soul managed to grab him quickly and throw him in a cat carrier and took him up to the RSPCA where sadly he was euthanised.

This is the plight of animals when people get pets and don't care about them. All animals start off cute, but it doesn't take much for them to become feral and wreak havoc.

[Jovial_Monk]

What size fangs did he have? Bigger than your normal moggie?

[AiA in Atlanta]

Don't see my cat much in the summer - she must live off chipmunks. voles, ground squirrels, birds and maybe even the occasional grey squirrel but she is probably half the size of the cat in the photo. That thing is huge.

[mantra]

Don't see my cat much in the summer - she must live off chipmunks. voles, ground squirrels, birds and maybe even the occasional grey squirrel but she is probably half the size of the cat in the photo. That thing is huge.

Aren't you concerned about the wildlife she kills? It is amazing that there are any animals left in the US with the amount of hunting, especially from humans, that goes on over there.

What size fangs did he have? Bigger than your normal moggie?

The one that stayed with me had a huge mouth with very large fangs. I think he killed a possum which was very distressing. Although it was a bit sad to see him go, it was also a huge relief. If a cat bites you - it can kill you if it's got a particular feline disease.

Another stray ended up in my garden - he was bigger than the cat in the picture, but grey with a stumpy tail and sweet natured. He was some sort of manx cat. When we took him up to the RSPCA, one of the workers grabbed him straight away and took him home with her which was a good ending.

[AiA in Atlanta]

Read once about a single cat killing every single bird of a species that was once only found on a small island off the coast of New Zealand. Cats are destructive animals. They are hunters and cannot be stopped unless they are kept indoors. The critters my cat kills aren't exactly endangered ... not sure how she kills the voles, or maybe even they are moles ... they don't really have eyes and a funny little snout ... does she dig them up or catch them when they come up to the surface ... I haven't figured that out.

I feel mostly sorry for these ground squirrels:




And the robins:



Luckily she can't catch the hummingbirds. They are too fast"

[Jovial_Monk]

I planted a correa in the front garden, in a year or two that should see visits by honeyeaters which will be nice.

[Jovial_Monk]

No need for mutations—just evolution in the feral cat population, guess bigger is better in the wild.

[Mattus]

[Mattus]

No need for mutations—just evolution

You have no fucking clue at all, do you.