About five years ago, there was a report that a young female veterinarian had reported on line that she had just shot and killed a feral house cat and showed its picture on Facebook.

Well, there arose a hue and cry about it. Since she had shown evidence of killing the cat, it was brought before the State Vet board. In the end she was fined and got her license suspended for one year. This is Houston and a large metropolitan area. It has in its population some people who had rather see a 1,000 grown nesting birds killed than one semi feral house cat.

The supposed owners of the cat, or those that claimed it, said it had a name and would never do such a thing. Obviously, they had no knowledge of the nature of this or any other cat that's allowed out at night to roam and hunt. That's their nature and cannot be changed. House cats should be kept in the house!

I still advocate any hunter out in the woods who sees a cat, shoot that cat! Save untold number of young helpless birds. If the cat hunted to eat, but they don't. I sent an email to the young unemployed vet and told her her mistake was posting her good deed on the internet. There are too many whinners who have no idea the destruction caused by "innocent" house cats.

I expect I will get some flack over my opinion and solution. I have been a quail hunter all my life, or until I can't walk and hunt. Any feral house cat I ever saw out hunting birds too, was a dead cat! Just Sayin...RJS

About five years ago, there was a report that a young female veterinarian had reported on line that she had just shot and killed a feral house cat and showed its picture on Facebook.

Well, there arose a hue and cry about it. Since she had shown evidence of killing the cat, it was brought before the State Vet board. In the end she was fined and got her license suspended for one year. This is Houston and a large metropolitan area. It has in its population some people who had rather see a 1,000 grown nesting birds killed than one semi feral house cat.

The supposed owners of the cat, or those that claimed it, said it had a name and would never do such a thing. Obviously, they had no knowledge of the nature of this or any other cat that's allowed out at night to roam and hunt. That's their nature and cannot be changed. House cats should be kept in the house!

I still advocate any hunter out in the woods who sees a cat, shoot that cat! Save untold number of young helpless birds. If the cat hunted to eat, but they don't. I sent an email to the young unemployed vet and told her her mistake was posting her good deed on the internet. There are too many whinners who have no idea the destruction caused by "innocent" house cats.

I expect I will get some flack over my opinion and solution. I have been a quail hunter all my life, or until I can't walk and hunt. Any feral house cat I ever saw out hunting birds too, was a dead cat! Just Sayin...RJS

Robert J Samples. Here in St. Cloud, Mn the law prohibits releasing any projectile, even a rock, or face a $300 fine the last I checked years ago. "Just Sayin".

There was a heated ongoing discussion in the local weekly fishing news a few years ago with cat lovers chastising cat haters for eliminating all roaming felines on sight for their deadly carnage on game birds and song birds. After weeks of ongoing fighting a game warden chimed in with the fact there was no law against killing roaming feral cats. He said if it did not have a collar on just shoot it and dispose of it and shut up. I don't have to dispose of them as cats, woodchucks, opossums (in season) disappear over night as the coyotes will eat everything. I can't believe that there is a season on opossums. Season opens around October 25th and they can be harvested from 1/2 hour before sunup to 1/2 hour after sundown, like deer!

My weapon of choice is a bolt action .17 HMR which sends the round downrange at 2,550 ft. per second. This round was developed by Hornady himself to prevent any ricochets as the bullet blows up on impact on water, rocks, trees and of course animals. It has no recoil and is only slightly louder than a .22 long rifle and travels more than twice as fast. With a good scope this rifle is super accurate and deadly.

About five years ago, there was a report that a young female veterinarian had reported on line that she had just shot and killed a feral house cat and showed its picture on Facebook.

Well, there arose a hue and cry about it. Since she had shown evidence of killing the cat, it was brought before the State Vet board. In the end she was fined and got her license suspended for one year. This is Houston and a large metropolitan area. It has in its population some people who had rather see a 1,000 grown nesting birds killed than one semi feral house cat.

The supposed owners of the cat, or those that claimed it, said it had a name and would never do such a thing. Obviously, they had no knowledge of the nature of this or any other cat that's allowed out at night to roam and hunt. That's their nature and cannot be changed. House cats should be kept in the house!

I still advocate any hunter out in the woods who sees a cat, shoot that cat! Save untold number of young helpless birds. If the cat hunted to eat, but they don't. I sent an email to the young unemployed vet and told her her mistake was posting her good deed on the internet. There are too many whinners who have no idea the destruction caused by "innocent" house cats.

I expect I will get some flack over my opinion and solution. I have been a quail hunter all my life, or until I can't walk and hunt. Any feral house cat I ever saw out hunting birds too, was a dead cat! Just Sayin...RJS