I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this article that the New York Times ran yesterday about these Australians who are murdering as many cats as they can. By the fifth paragraph, we’re reading about “the carcasses of more than a dozen cats . . . piled in a large, shallow tub.”
It’s very disturbing, but while it’s not the unanimous view, many Australians think it’s vital to the continent’s ecology that they rid the land of feral cats, who are not a native species. Since the local wildlife never developed defenses to the adorable but ferocious predators, many species are in danger of being wiped out by the furry felines.