- Signatures: 36,369
- Goal: 5,000
- Deadline: 4-10-2005
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A hunter in Madison, Wisconsin has proposed that hunters be allowed to shoot free-roaming domestic cats. On April 11, 2005 the proposal to change homeless cats to an unprotected species will go before hunters of the Wisconsin Conservation Congress in the spring hearings of all 72 counties. Please help to persuade them to do the right thing.
Campaign update: On April 11, the WI Conservation Congress voted 6,830 to 5,102 in favor of this proposal, but the WI Governor has stated he will not allow the proposal to succeed. Please keep signing to help protect Wisconsin's cats!
Campaign update: On April 11, the WI Conservation Congress voted 6,830 to 5,102 in favor of this proposal, but the WI Governor has stated he will not allow the proposal to succeed. Please keep signing to help protect Wisconsin's cats!
| Number | Date | Name | City | State | Why should the Wisconsin Conservation Congress vote against this proposal? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36,469 | 10:43 am PDT, Jun 26 | Haley Norris | Leesburg | Florida | |
| 36,468 | 11:59 pm PDT, Jun 18 | Kevin Kolata | Milwaukee | Wisconsin | First question; are dogs considered for hunting? No, because the dog has always enjoyed the favorited spot in social life. What I propose is a program to help people who come to the conclusion that they no longer desire a cat, to have an alternative to releasing the animal to the woods. I know your are saying 'Go to your local Human Society' but that isn't an alternative for most of the state or they simply have no interest to go to there. HS can not handle that surplus. And... this is the point... are cat more harmful than other hunted animals?? Thank You This is Kolata, Kevin B. PFC US Army Citizen of Milwaukee, Wisconsin And I am DISGUSTED that while I was deployed to Iraq during OIF VII that CATS of things should be considered for DEATH. I'M DISGUSTED!! For heaven sake; they are more important things in the world that the impact of CATS!!! |
| 36,467 | 6:10 pm PDT, Jun 1 | bob attaya | Massachusetts | I don't believe in killing animals. We are the only species that kills for sport. Why don't the sport killers take up a healthy cardio vascular exercise...like jogging up a mt. and jumping off! | |
| 36,466 | 11:11 pm PDT, May 8 | Anonymous | Florida | ||
| 36,465 | 12:36 pm PDT, May 6 | susan asher | Amarillo | Texas | Because it is wrong to kill for no reason. Cats help keep rodents away and they male a good pet. |
| 36,464 | 6:52 pm PDT, May 5 | Anonymous | Minnesota | Because cats are our friends. | |
| 36,463 | 12:54 am PDT, Apr 30 | irene astorga | San Jose | California | |
| 36,462 | 12:44 am PDT, Apr 30 | Tina Molcilo | San Jose | California | Cause they could be family cats. |
| 36,461 | 2:44 pm PDT, Apr 28 | Carter McKennon | Delaware | It is wrong to kill pets (even if they are free roaming). | |
| 36,460 | 1:53 pm PDT, Mar 31 | Gabby Brown | Painesville | Ohio | It is stupid to shoot free roaming cats. I think they should have a longer and better life. |
| 36,459 | 8:27 am PDT, Mar 30 | Anonymous | Barcelona | ||
| 36,458 | 9:56 pm PDT, Mar 28 | Hampton Bolen | Orangeburg | South Carolina | |
| 36,457 | 5:20 pm PDT, Mar 26 | alexandra arebalo | Michigan | Cats are pets not game. | |
| 36,456 | 6:54 am PDT, Mar 26 | Ginger Geronimo | Birmingham | Alabama | |
| 36,455 | 2:24 am PST, Mar 5 | Pam Mccarthy | upper queensbury | This is unjust and cruel.The cat,s are hardly responsible for being abandoned & neglected.Congress should be more concerned with a proposal in dealing with the situation in a humane way. Some other states live trap them & then have the cats sprayed or neutared. | |
| 36,454 | 6:08 am PST, Mar 3 | Cristina Gasch | Castellón | ||
| 36,453 | 12:13 pm PST, Feb 28 | Lilly Kulka | Belmont | California | |
| 36,452 | 3:32 pm PST, Feb 26 | Laura Garay | It´s cruel and unnecessary kill or hurt this animals, make families adopt them, instead of kill them, please. | ||
| 36,451 | 10:35 am PST, Feb 24 | MªLuisa Gasch | Castellon | This man isn't sane, is really crazy. Why doesn't suicide him with his gun? | |
| 36,450 | 8:48 pm PST, Feb 21 | Terie Jean Carney | Graham | Washington | Shooting cats?! That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard yet! What are you people out that way? Phycotic? Don't you have like a humane society?! Huh? GET ONE! And stop acting like you lost what little common sence you were born with! WAKE UP! Your being STUPID! |
| 36,449 | 3:10 pm PST, Feb 15 | Tatiana Costa | Sao Paulo | ||
| 36,448 | 5:12 am PST, Feb 7 | Gloria Smith | Warner Robins | Georgia | We do not have the right to kill Gods creatures. These cats are not responsible for being abandoned! |
| 36,447 | 12:20 am PST, Feb 4 | Aline Garcia | Mexico City | You have to stop this insanity!!! | |
| 36,446 | 4:10 pm PST, Feb 1 | Anonymous | Ohio | ||
| 36,445 | 7:23 am PST, Feb 1 | Ann J. Mucherino | Zephyrhills | Florida | Cats are family PETS. The only reason they are roaming is that someone let them go out on their own. They don't make the choice. |
| 36,443 | 8:59 pm PST, Jan 22 | Glen Venezio | Carolina | Puerto Rico | |
| 36,442 | 2:12 pm PST, Jan 18 | Anonymous | Marshall Islands | Please this is all cruel!!!! | |
| 36,441 | 8:15 pm PST, Jan 15 | Mark Loehrer | Kirkwood | Missouri | Because if they do, I will put forward a proposal to shoot hunting dogs. |
| 36,440 | 1:35 pm PST, Jan 13 | Melissa Bennett | University Place | Washington | I have 2 cats that are a huge part of my family. They do, on occasion, get out. I believe this proposal should be voted against becuase if it is passed in Wisconsin, what's to say that other states or cities won't see this as an easy control option and try to pass it in their location. I would be devistated if my cat got out and was found by one of these "hunters". To me, that would be like killing a member of my family. Think about this before you decide to vote for this...how would you like it if a member of your family was lost, and because of your proposal, was shot and killed. |
| 36,439 | 7:43 am PST, Jan 13 | Zoe Lazarus | Lawrence | Kansas | Twisted twisted twisted!!!!!!!!!!!1. |
| 36,438 | 11:43 am PST, Jan 11 | Marcy Martin | McMinnville | Tennessee | |
| 36,437 | 5:03 pm PST, Jan 6 | Lori Roosen | BEVERLY HILLS | Florida | TALK ABOUT ANIMAL CRUELTY!!! THAT'S JUST PLAIN WRONG, NO ANIMAL SHOULD BE SHOT JUST BECAUSE SOME IDIOTS DON'T LIKE THEM. |
| 36,436 | 8:03 am PST, Jan 6 | Linda Walsh | I think it's outrageous that Wisconsin, let alone any city or town, has even thought this to be morally correct!! I'm a cat lover and I can't believe I am reading such horror! I'm happy I don't live there! | ||
| 36,435 | 5:47 pm PST, Jan 5 | Emily Huff | Gag city | Missouri | Because that's the right thing to do. |
| 36,434 | 9:12 pm PST, Dec 31 | Carrie Vogan | Lexington | Tennessee | |
| 36,433 | 12:09 pm PST, Dec 31 | Kathleen Rennscheidt | Austin | Texas | Cruel & Inhumane. People that would want to do this are usually men that are insecure with themselves and have to pick on small animals to make themselves feel more like men! |
| 36,432 | 11:03 am PST, Dec 31 | Anonymous | Los Angeles | California | Because it is a savage and cleary unnessary act against these animals...please vote to NOT DO IT. |
| 36,431 | 5:23 pm PST, Dec 27 | Jennifer Henney | Griffith | Indiana | I can't believe anyone would even agree to hunting homeless/stray cats. That is so cruel, they have a right to roam the earth just as much as we do. |
| 36,430 | 11:56 am PST, Dec 25 | Stephanie Pianzio | saint george | South Carolina | Many people have outdoor cats. The peoples' pets will be the easiest targets. True ferals are rarely ever seen by humans and only come out late at night and even then are rarely ever seen. |
| 36,429 | 5:06 pm PST, Dec 21 | Jasmine Krogulski | Glendale | Arizona | This isn't right animal cruelty!!!!! My cat gets outside all the time I wouldn't want someone shooting her for sneeking out! |
| 36,428 | 7:24 am PST, Dec 17 | Jewelia Conley | milan | Ohio | Cats are very important to this world and hurting anything god created is wrong I believe that animals are the same as humans and shoooting and killling an animal is like soooting or killing a human it's putting us before animals that's not right. |
| 36,427 | 8:18 pm PST, Dec 15 | monika hanke | hildesheim | Maine | |
| 36,426 | 12:46 pm PST, Dec 9 | Lisa Robicheau | Kendall | Florida | Cats, as well as dogs have been a domesticated species for hundreds of years. They are not hunter's game. Have some compasion. This question shouldn't even be on a debate. |
| 36,424 | 10:23 pm PST, Dec 8 | Patricia Boyd | Petaluma | California | |
| 36,423 | 3:25 pm PST, Dec 8 | Nicole K. | pembroke ma | Massachusetts | Cats have feelings to and if u start shooting random cats then u may kill someones pet and bye experance i know how it is to lose a cat and so have many other people. |
| 36,422 | 9:32 am PST, Dec 8 | Anonymous | tulsa | Oklahoma | |
| 36,421 | 10:46 am PST, Dec 5 | Ray Jordan | Bloomington | Indiana | It's barbaric. They're homeless because of irresponsible owners abandoning them. Give them a helping hand instead of gunning them down. |
| 36,420 | 3:50 pm PST, Dec 3 | Lisa Janka | Erie | Pennsylvania | |
| 36,419 | 3:10 pm PST, Dec 3 | Anonymous | California | It's not right to hunt ANY animals....how would YOU like to be hunted and killed????? | |
| 36,418 | 2:20 pm PST, Nov 30 | Darlene Davis | Garden City | Michigan | |
| 36,417 | 1:25 pm PST, Nov 29 | Anonymous | Fitchburg | Wisconsin | |
| 36,416 | 4:07 am PST, Nov 24 | Hayley Duddridge | |||
| 36,415 | 4:04 pm PST, Nov 23 | courtney boeck | Gaylord | Michigan | The WCC should be against this because it isn't right and unfair. If these cats are pets, they don't need to be killed. |
| 36,414 | 7:02 am PST, Nov 21 | kelly poyser | Cheshire | ||
| 36,413 | 8:23 am PST, Nov 19 | Colleen Morris | St Johns | Its a sin what they do to animals! STOP ANIMAL ABUSE! | |
| 36,412 | 9:41 pm PST, Nov 16 | Marilyn Lowe | Truro, Nova Scotia | This is nothing but someone wanting to use cats as target practice. | |
| 36,411 | 6:02 pm PST, Nov 10 | Lorrie BallArsenec | New Jersey | ||
| 36,410 | 4:13 pm PST, Nov 7 | Dora Rushing | Texas | ||
| 36,409 | 3:39 pm PST, Nov 7 | Anonymous | Wichita | Kansas | |
| 36,408 | 10:03 am PST, Nov 5 | Anonymous | governor's harbour,Eleuthera | God put all creatures on this earth, no one has the right to eraticate them for their own political reasons. | |
| 36,407 | 5:43 am PST, Nov 5 | John (Juan) Patrick Keefe II | Oklahoma City | Oklahoma | Cats are angels, and we have no right as huans to hunt anyone. We are no better than they. Why do we deserve to live while killing them? That's beyond cruel. |
| 36,406 | 5:09 pm PDT, Nov 1 | Isabella S | New York | BECAUSE---- KILLING STRAY, HELPLESS CATS IS RUTHLESS AND HEARTLESS!!! THAT WOULD BE UNFAIR AND WRONG!!!! X( X( X(X( XP XP XP XP. | |
| 36,405 | 12:58 pm PDT, Oct 27 | osnat l. alterman | Madrid | ||
| 36,403 | 1:41 pm PDT, Oct 24 | daniela bernal | |||
| 36,402 | 11:44 pm PDT, Oct 22 | Karen Rogers | Indiana | Cats are wonderful pets. And some are outdoor pets. That is insane thinking and very unethical. Does this farmer have a dog? And would he like someone to be able to shoot dogs as well? Both are wrong and unacceptable.!! Congress do the right thing and vote against this proposal. | |
| 36,401 | 11:26 pm PDT, Oct 20 | Janice Johnson | Shenandoah | Iowa | I have owned cats off and on my entire life (I am now 59), and I have loved them all equally and without question. No animal deserves to be shot and killed just because it has no place to call home. There are places like the ASPCA who have fostering groups who take in cats (and dogs) until new owners can be found. I am surprised that PETA has not heard of this petition. IT IS CRUEL AND INHUMANE TREATMENT of poor animals who cannot defend themselves. What if the situation was reversed?? Would you want animals hunting down/killing your children for sport?? |
Keep Domestic Cats in Wisconsin From Being Fair Game
Please vote against a recent proposal by hunter Mark Smith to classify free-roaming domestic cats as an "unprotected species." Cats are not "small game." They are pets. If someone has a problem with stray cats, there are humane ways to deal with the problem. Have-a-Heart traps are an easy fix and animal control is also an option. Reaching for a gun is not the solution to problems.
Cats will kill birds, it's called instinct. Apparently, this hunter has a need to be on the same mental level as a feline. Humans are a very evolved species. We should be helping the animals that can not help themselves instead of lowering ourselves to their standards.
Please do the right thing. Not only will innocent homeless cats be spared, but pets will not be mistakenly shot and killed at a hunter's will. We have evolved beyond senseless killing.
Cats will kill birds, it's called instinct. Apparently, this hunter has a need to be on the same mental level as a feline. Humans are a very evolved species. We should be helping the animals that can not help themselves instead of lowering ourselves to their standards.
Please do the right thing. Not only will innocent homeless cats be spared, but pets will not be mistakenly shot and killed at a hunter's will. We have evolved beyond senseless killing.
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