elepaio pid=' dateline= Wrote:Please folks, can we apply some ora modicum of common sense here ? With those numbers, we would ( maybe ) see more cats than people walking in a circle at the park . Or just on the fringes since cats might just be illegal aliens and invaders. Over running and enslaving us to feed them while they do nothing while we coddle them.
I know facts often illude you as well as that when you are cornered by facts, your first response is to deny them, then you revert to claim that the person presenting the facts is attacking you - or should I say assaulting you, then you generally end in some weak kneed spineless pray to Rob for help.
So, let's look at some facts, shall we?
First source: "An estimated 2 million cats live on the various different islands of Hawaii. That’s half a million more than the human population of the state."
https://www.600milliondogs.org/post/what...he%20state.
Second source: "The estimated 2 million feral cats that freely roam the islands are considered by experts to be an invasive predatory species"
https://louisegund.com/this-is-what-you-...at-crisis/
Third Source: "There are roughly 300,000 free-roaming cats on Oahu and many thousands more on the neighbor islands."
https://www.civilbeat.org/2016/10/69-per...om-hawaii/
Fourth Source: "And cats kill even when well fed as pets, or spayed/neutered and rereleased" "On Maui Island alone, feral free-ranging cats are now estimated to number approximately 300,000-400,000 animals! That is 413 to 550 cats per square mile! That means that for every 1 resident on Maui Island there are more than 2 feral free-ranging cats."
https://www.humanesociety.org/sites/defa...ldlife.pdf (CAUTION - DOES CONTAIN GRAPHIC IMAGES)
Fifth Source: "Hawaii is facing a “cat crisis,” state officials say. It’s estimated more than 2 million cats roam the eight Hawaiian Islands, including up to 1 million on Big Island and 15,500 on Kaua’i, where the petrels were killed, according to Aloha Pest Solutions.:
https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world...54315.html
As I originally said, there is no "official" count by any agency, but the five (of hundreds more) sources above ALL COME TO VERY SIMILAR AGREEMENT.
It has been generally accepted that an estimated 2,000,000 feral cats roam free in the entire state, with 500,000 each on Hawaii, Maui and Oahu.
So, I would say we have a cat human problem.
"Please folks, can we apply some ora modicum of common sense here ?"
How about stopping the goddamn feeding of feral cats???