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To: ManyMoose who wrote (102002)	4/26/2005 11:53:31 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I must be very slow this evening, because I didn't understand your anecdote about the man who called his wife from Mt. Everest. Re priorities, could you explain again in a way I can understand. I have been slaving over a hot stove for two hours cooking Caribbean rice and beans and cornbread, which I served with a nice, mostly spinach salad. My brain doesn't work so well after dinner. Re shooting house cats, it is Minnesota where this law has been proposed. I'm not sure if it has gone into effect, or will. Most house cats do not wear collars, and neither are they under the direct control of their owners, being cats with all that entails. So it would be pretty much open season on them! Wisconsin takes step to OK wild cat hunts Thursday, April 14, 2005 Posted: 10:18 AM EDT (1418 GMT) Alexis Ernst-Treutel holds a poster with a photo of a cat during a public hearing on a proposal to allow hunting of free-roaming cats. MyCashNow - $100 - $1,000 Overnight Payday Loan Cash goes in your account overnight. Very low fees. Fast decisions.... www.mycashnow.com Compare Mortgage Offers Up to four free mortgage, refinance or home equity offers - one easy form. www.nextag.com Refinance Rates Hit Record Lows Get $150,000 loan for $720 per month. Refinance while rates are low. www.lowermybills.com LendingTree.com - Official Site Lendingtree - Find a mortgage, refinance, home equity or auto loan now. Receive... www.lendingtree.com VIDEO Wisconsin's proposed way to control stray cats -- hunt them. PLAY VIDEO YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS Wisconsin or Create your own Manage alerts \| What is this? MADISON, Wisconsin (AP) -- Although Wisconsin residents have voiced their support for a plan to legalize wild cat hunting, some legislators and cat lovers say they will continue their fight. The proposal would allow licensed hunters to kill free-roaming cats, including any domestic cat that isn't under the owner's direct control or any cat without a collar, just like skunks or gophers -- something the Humane Society of the United States has described as cruel and archaic. Outdoor enthusiasts approved the proposal 6,830 to 5,201 at Monday's spring hearings of the Wisconsin Conservation Congress, a citizens' advisory group. The results, released Tuesday by the state, get forwarded to the Natural Resources Board for its consideration. Ultimately, though, any measure would have to be passed by the Legislature and signed by Gov. Jim Doyle. Two state senators -- Scott Fitzgerald and Neil Kedzie -- are promising they'll do everything they can to keep the plan from becoming law. Kedzie, who chairs the Natural Resources and Transportation Committee, called the issue "a distraction from the main tasks we have at hand." "I don't see a whole lot of momentum for it," Kedzie said. "It's not the responsibility of the DNR to regulate cats." Fitzgerald, co-chairman of the Legislature's powerful Joint Finance Committee, said he will "work against any proposed legislation to legalize the shooting of feral cats." At least two other upper Midwestern states, South Dakota and Minnesota, allow wild cats to be shot -- and have for decades. Every year in Wisconsin alone, an estimated 2 million wild cats kill 47 million to 139 million songbirds, according to state officials. Despite the astounding numbers, the proposal has been met with fierce opposition from cat lovers such as Ted O'Donnell. O'Donnell, who gathered more than 17,000 signatures in an online petition to oppose the plan, was joined at Monday's meetings by scores of other animal lovers who held pictures of cats, clutched stuffed animals and wore whiskers. Even Karen Hale, the head of the Madison Audubon Society, one of the largest pro-bird groups in the country with 2,500 members, voted no. She said the proposal was just too controversial, even though wild cats have reduced the state's bird population. cnn.com