Cats vs. birds
By Gina Spadafori
November 13, 2006
Remember the brouhaha over Wisconsin’s proposal to make it legal to hunt feral cats? Apparently an avid bird-watcher in Texas already thinks it’s OK in that state. From a 1999 Internet posting by Jim Stevenson, dug up by the Houstonist blog:
“And I’m sorry if this offends, but I sighted in my .22 rifle and killed about two dozen cats in about the first year,” the passionate birdwatcher and professional birding guide wrote. “When we allow feral cats to roam free, we might as well be out there with BB guns plinking away at the songbirds ourselves.”
Here’s the rest.
[…] Meant to post this follow-up in the L.A. Times about the birder arrested for killing cats in Texas (here’s the previous post): Jim Stevenson says he is not the hate-filled serial cat killer he has been made out to be. […]
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