Pest Control
Following up on the Australian gun control post from a couple of days ago, I found an interesting illustration of the differences between the US and Australia whilst perusing the news feeds today. It seems that in Wisconsin here is a slight pest control problem, for which a uniquely American solution has been approved.
Despite passionate opposition from cat lovers, Wisconsin residents supported a plan that would allow hunters to take out wild felines that kill birds and other small mammals.
Residents who attended the meetings of the Wisconsin Conservation Congress voted Monday night to allow hunters to kill cats at will, just like skunks or gophers - something the Humane Society of the United States called cruel and archaic.
Wild, feral cats are to be treated just like any other wild pest. Okay, now let’s compare that to Australia, which has a poison toad problem.
Poisonous toads causing a menace across northern Australia should be clubbed to death with cricket bats an
d golf clubs, an MP has said.David Tollner’s crude tactic has understandably outraged animal rights campaigners.
But the Liberal Party politician said the method for dispatching cane toads proved successful when he was a child.
Mr Tollner, member for the Northern Territory, told ABC radio: “We hit them with cricket bats and golf clubs and the like.
“I think if people could be encouraged rather than discouraged (to attack them) the better the chance will be of stopping the cane toads.”
Two similar problems, two totally different solutions. It reminded me of the difference between Australian and American attitudes towards self defense. In Australia, if you hear someone breaking in your house in the middle of the night, you should grab whatever non-lethal piece of sporting equipment you can find and try and scare the intruder off. In America you just shoot the fucker.
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