Fearful Thought For Cat & Other Animal Lovers

Yahoo! News - Wis. Considers Legalizing Cat Hunting!

Residents in 72 counties were asked whether free-roaming cats — including any domestic cat that isn't under the owner's direct control or any cat without a collar — should be listed as an unprotected species. If listed as so, the cats could be hunted.Statewide results were expected Tuesday.
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La Crosse firefighter Mark Smith, 48, helped spearhead the cat-hunting proposal. He wants Wisconsin to declare free-roaming wild cats an unprotected species, just like skunks or gophers. Anyone with a small-game license could shoot the cats at will.
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At least two other upper Midwestern states, South Dakota and Minnesota, allow wild cats to be shot — and have for decades. Minnesota defines a wild, or feral, cat as one with no collar that does not show friendly behavior, said Kevin Kyle with that state's Department of Natural Resources.
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One of the attendees was Katy Francis, who wore cat ears, whiskers, a cat nose and a sign that read, "Too Cute to Kill." For Francis, "The cat hunting thing brought me out because it was very extreme." | source: Yahoo! News - Wis. Considers Legalizing Cat Hunting

What has the world come to? I can't fathom the solution to the over population of cats to be death. Mexico and China is overpopulated, we wouldn't condone killing it's citizens to solve that issue - Would we?