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Post by Fogg on Apr 28, 2022 14:27:05 GMT 12
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Post by fish on Apr 28, 2022 20:47:02 GMT 12
Rowe learned from residents that cats were a contentious topic on Kawau. She heard some locals shot cats, because of their impact on wildlife. Fearing Luchs could be in even more danger, Rowe offered a $1500 bounty to anyone who helped return the cat alive. She also pledged a further $1500 donation to DOC.
“My partner is a professor of environmental science, so we are passionate about predator control.”
If I could find two people to vouch I was of good character, I'd get my gun license and a gun and go after the cats myself.
So, if you are passionate about predator control, why would you take predators to our Huaraki Gulf Islands? That is just a nonsense. Especially a young cat that likes to play 'chases' a lot.
Tiri, Motoura, Motutapu, Motuihi all have either kiwi or tuatara on them. Or takahe. Saddle Is has penguin, in addition to most of the others. If a young cat like that got onto Tiri, I'd hate to think how many decades of hard conservation work would be lost.
Leave the fucken cat at home.
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Post by Fogg on Apr 29, 2022 9:40:53 GMT 12
The boat is their home.
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Post by fish on Apr 29, 2022 10:13:33 GMT 12
That only increases the risk to their cat getting onto one of our bird sanctuary islands. I do have some sympathy for live aboards wanting to have pets with them, but if you do, I'd say you need to take some personal responsibility and not anchor at any of the islands with endangered species on them. A study was done a while ago where a cat was deliberately released on one of the Noises islands. I think it had a tracker on it. Basically the thing went nuts, got onto the next island and the researchers had a hell of a mission getting the thing back. It is known that there is practically no way of catching feral cats, and they are one of the most vivacious predators out there. It is a real risk that domestic cats on boats can get onto any one of the many islands that host endangered species, and wreak absolute havoc. |
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Post by Fogg on Apr 29, 2022 10:38:39 GMT 12
It’s almost unheard of for a domestic cat to swim any distance so most occasions they fall off a boat they will drown rather than become a hazard.
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Post by fish on Apr 29, 2022 10:56:49 GMT 12
It’s almost unheard of for a domestic cat to swim any distance so most occasions they fall off a boat they will drown rather than become a hazard. Yes. But it is the 'almost' bit were the risk sits. You can probably tell I'm not a cat person. And, most summers, there are numerous examples of dogs being taken onto islands with large signs specifically banning dogs. I guess it is a risk of having accessible sanctuary islands in the middle of our largest city. I'm always a little weary and paranoid as to what has crept into my dinghy in the dinghy locker before I go to Tiri and leave said dinghy on the beach for a day. And our stuff from home. We have an infestation of red ants in the garden at the moment, along with rainbow skinks (also known as plague skinks). Consequently I hang my spinnakers and gennakers from the roof in the shed when storing them, so there is no risk of me introducing plague skinks to the boat and inadvertently transferring them to Tiri. I assume if the risk is too great, the powers that be set up closed sanctuaries, like Little Barrier. There are clear benefits to open sanctuaries, particularly with engagement and education with kids. My kids are dead keen to go on a kiwi hunting mission, probably at Shakespeare first as it is easy to get to for us. I'm plotting how to see tuatara in the wild, but they are so damn hard to see in an enclosure at the zoo (well camouflaged), even if I knew where they were on Motuihe, I'd probably trip over them and still not see them. |
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Post by GO30 on Apr 30, 2022 11:42:15 GMT 12
It is known that there is practically no way of catching feral cats, and they are one of the most vivacious predators out there. It is a real risk that domestic cats on boats can get onto any one of the many islands that host endangered species, and wreak absolute havoc. Fark! tell me about it. 2 years I've been trying to wipe out a family of ferals on the farm, feral Cats not feral Mallards. They are incredibly shy shits and far smarter than your average domestic moggy. I've got 7 so far but reckon there is still 3. A couple were big fat fucks i.e very well feed and ya know they aren't eating the possums, pigs, rabbits or bovines, the only thing left is the local bird life. The possums are big and healthy as well at the moment and they aren't bird friendly either.
If a family got established on a Island eradication is going to be very hard and bloody costly.
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Post by em on May 4, 2022 7:29:49 GMT 12
It is known that there is practically no way of catching feral cats, and they are one of the most vivacious predators out there. It is a real risk that domestic cats on boats can get onto any one of the many islands that host endangered species, and wreak absolute havoc. Fark! tell me about it. 2 years I've been trying to wipe out a family of ferals on the farm, feral Cats not feral Mallards. They are incredibly shy shits and far smarter than your average domestic moggy. I've got 7 so far but reckon there is still 3. A couple were big fat fucks i.e very well feed and ya know they aren't eating the possums, pigs, rabbits or bovines, the only thing left is the local bird life. The possums are big and healthy as well at the moment and they aren't bird friendly either.
If a family got established on a Island eradication is going to be very hard and bloody costly.
Steve Allen trap is the business for cats but it needs to have a ramp up to it to be really effective . goodwood.nz/blogs/news/setting-your-steve-allen-sa2-trap |
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Post by fish on May 10, 2022 9:02:22 GMT 12
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