Huh?

Maybe Blogger has finally calmed to the point where I can note this interesting one line statement from Alicublog--he links to Ann Althouse, who lives in my temp location during the 90's-- Madison--I dunno, maybe she and Matt Lavine have crossed paths.

Anyway, the long and short of it is that Wisconsin, land of butter, lakes, cheese, liberal "disneyland" Madison, um Joe McCarthy, Tommy Thompson, and sadistically long winters (notice the downward spiral there)--anyway, some Wisconsinites are trying to take steps to eventually declare cats an "unprotected species," like weasels, skunks, and opossums. Meaning--open season on cats.

Now, the provision will have to pass at spring hearings in all 72 Wiconsin counties of the Wisconsin Conservation Congress--and then would have to be placed before the State legislature. And the proposal would apply only to "feral cats," that is, animals that have no identifying tags and are roaming about.

Still--as the proud owner of a not-entirely-small-and-collarless feline (I tried--it was the most miserable half-hour of his life under my care), I don't like the idea. And the article above suggests that a different approach to feline control--so-called "catch, neuter, and release"--is more effective at reducing feral cat populations (which admittedly kill native bird species on a large enough scale to make reduction a worth goal). And the potential for offing Tigger--or Guy Noir (my sister's cat, who survived a bullet wound a few years ago, probably shot by some moron who wanted to prove how "tough" he was by firing a .22 at a ten pound animal)--is large enough.

Besides, as Althouse notes (via link), it could come to this (one hell of a Friday cat-blog, if you ask me).