Are they going to introduce a bigger possum?
this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2025
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Lol! Eradicate feral cats by introducing a bigger possum? Classic NZ humor
Well, I’m not a feral cat and I did date a guy who are cat years, but I don’t know he doesn’t wear it anymore. It’s just a costume I used to identify as a furry or human Pup but now it was just so I could work at a bar a leather bar it has nothing to do with dogs and people thought so they wouldn’t even go to a bar. They wouldn’t even try to understand that what you do at a bar as you meet someone you make a conversation you buy a few drinks you drink a few shot Jell-O shots and then you go home and then you call it an evening, but I don’t know. I guess I got so frustrated that it’s a bit of dog just to proof to prove that it has nothing to do with it. I can’t stand puppy stuff anymore. I’m I mean all it was was well when you get older you still need to work and the best place for working in the evenings is to be a bartender or doing clothing and we all get older when we lose our looks so we have to try something new and it has nothing to do about feral cats or anything, but it’s just saying someone wants to see something interesting. They want to see a show a dance performance a comedy event you know everything is a costume at least that’s how I always saw it not a lifestyle just just a costume.
Too bad they ain't much good eatin.
Brings back the horrific scene I came across at 14 of a cat arm in a pot.
Had a friend from Hong Kong tell cats don't taste good but dogs do. I took his word for it.
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I find it kind of amazing that humans will constantly look outwardly as if everything that is happening isn't a direct result of their own failures as nature's caretakers. Yes, let's kill the cats because of all the havoc they're wreaking on our biodiversity but let's also ignore all the havoc that we ourselves continue to wreak. Let's applaud ourselves for caring so much about the environment by slaughtering one of man's two best friends. Irresponsible cat owners aside, there are ways that (key phrase here) cost money that involve a well-known acronym, TNR to combat feral cat populations. They can be re-homed or put aboard ships to tackle rodent problems at sea and become resident sailor cats. There are better ways than blindly dropping poison fucking sausage and installing automatic poison spray machines around town. As if that won't result in any accidental deaths of spayed neighborhood outdoor cats with chips, collars, and loving families. This thread has absolutely lost the plot if everyone agrees with the methods put forth in the article. I can assure you, this is some grade A bs.
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