{"id":335,"date":"2005-04-12T19:30:41","date_gmt":"2005-04-12T23:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=335"},"modified":"2005-04-13T06:58:13","modified_gmt":"2005-04-13T10:58:13","slug":"tastes-like-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=335","title":{"rendered":"Tastes like chicken?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/loki.jpg\" alt=\"loki\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The common house cat.  Fluffy companion, or excellent game?<\/p>\n<p>The state of Wisconsin is considering a measure that would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/TECH\/science\/04\/12\/killing.wildcats.ap\/index.html\">legalize cat hunting<\/a>.  The measure would remove protected species status from the common domestic cat, and basically permit anyone with a small game license in that state to hunt and kill any free roaming cat.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Residents in 72 counties were asked whether free-roaming cats &#8212; including any domestic cat that isn&#8217;t under the owner&#8217;s direct control or any cat without a collar &#8212; should be listed as an unprotected species. If listed as so, the cats could be hunted.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal was one of several dozen included in a spring vote on hunting and fishing issues held by the Wisconsin Conservation Congress. The results, only advisory, get forwarded to the state Natural Resources Board.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, what valid reason would there be for hunting cats?  Do the hunters intend to eat their kills?  Doubtful&#8230; cat meat would be quite tough and stringy I&#8217;d imagine.  Stuff the carcass and keep it as a trophy?  Yeah, nothing confirms a hunter&#8217;s sheer skill and prowess like having Fluffy mounted in the game room.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dontshootthecat.com\/\">Opponents have their site as well<\/a>.  Apparently the election which had this measure on the ballot happened yesterday, but the results are unclear.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: <em>GOOD CHRIST!  THE MEASURE PASSED!<\/em><\/strong>  Fortunately for the cats,<a href=\"http:\/\/dontshootthecat.com\/whathappened.htm\"> it appears the measure was moot anyway, as the agency that this ballot measure addressed claims to have no authority over domestic cats<\/a>, and doesn&#8217;t seem to want to touch the measure.  So domestic cats appears safe in Wisconsin, for now anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Wisconsin, a measure has been proposed to legalize cat hunting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}