Dear Cuphandle,

My heart felt heavy also, at the sight of the culling on the news reports.

I kept thinking - isn't there a better way? This is not a new problem. It's happened in the past, and will continue to happen again
in the future. Why hasn't there been better planning done? They know
the numbers will keep on increasing - why not use more permanent alternatives such as - sterilization?

Culling seems like such a 'band-aid' solution.

I just wish that there was a better way of handling this situation.
Because it's going to keep on happening again and again. Why doesn't the scientific community come up with better alternatives?

Awww Cuphandle, I wish the culling of kangaroos wasn’t necessary but like the RSPCA I reluctantly support it.
There are no reasonable alternatives, and if their numbers threaten their survival and that of other native animals, then culling, if done in a way that is as humane as possible, is probably the best solution.
I do wonder whether something could have been done earlier in the picture.
I feel pacified knowing that the RSPCA was monitoring the cull and that they said that animal welfare standards were met.

I have only tried to cook kangaroo meat once but it was a disaster. Do you treat the meat the same way as beef? Mine ended up like shoe leather :(

Hi Foxy,
I hadn't refreshed the page for ages and hadn't noticed your post.

Where I lived there was a pigeon plague and the pigeons were fed grains mixed with birth control granules or something. It worked, because a year or so later the numbers were back to normal.

I have no idea whether contraception would work for kangaroos, but I just assumed that alternatives would have been explored especially by some fanatical animal organisations.

Cuphandle may I ask you to trot out the evidence I once called you a pretend farmer?
And your insults are welcome I have seen you take other posters to task for far less.
How do you know what I think?
I gave up shooting roos a very long time ago, and for this bush born bloke they are food, just did not like them looking at me while I killed them.
Dickie ,well you too get heated far too easy in fact we can not agree on much.
But I remember that poem and my little dog still.
Your first post in this thread was purely emotive, did not address the issue but tried to use pure propaganda .
Yes Foxy culling is cruel but lets remember it will alway happen wild dogs horses roos cats endless but needed what alternatives exist?
National parks forests every government department is under staffed no people to do it any other way.
We have threads talking about the way we treat women that do not attract this many posts why?
We find less debate about politics or power sell of than here?
Gibo, well Ginx has it down to pat I once posted my view about gibberish and thought it was deleted but maybe it was a lost post?
Gibo brings it all on him/her self.
Cuphandle I did think far more of you, yes we have differed but this is not combat it is debate over all you ideas are not far from mine find that post please I have no memory of saying it but may have in what context?

I want to know how many of these anti-cull people are actually vegetarians.

I ask those who are not, Is it only the cuddly animals you object to being culled? I am interested in your hierachy of animal importance, since kangaroos are obviously more sacred than cows, pigs etc,

What pests is it OK to kill?

Thousands of Kangaroos and wallabies die on the roads every year, but I'll bet the anti-cull bunch aren't going to stop driving. I see a minimum of two a day on my drive in to town.

Whats even more surprising is that we hear nothing about the legal culling of millions of kangaroos, yet the televised plight of 400 roos is a huge issue. These people are armchair greenies. Only if the issue is brought into their living room do they stir themselves to outrage.

Dickie,

Being petulant will get you nowhere. I for one would like to hear your response to TLTRs post. Because I don't think you have any real answer to the questions posed.

I think Belly, Pericles and TRTL have summed up the situation well. The cull is unfortunate but necessary, like the Koalas on Kangaroo Island, they have eaten themselves out of their home.

The baby seal syndrone is really at play here and the media is milking it for all it is worth.

Last time I drove on Majura Drive, which goes around Canberra to the airport, I counted 10 dead roos beside the road and I am told the carcases are picked up daily. How many more roos are simply injured by vehicles everywhere and hop off to eventually die. Notice how the wildlife shows only show big cats doing clean kills, they never show the near misses that means the intended prey dies later from infection. I have seen wallabies with guts torn out by dingos and dieing from infection and fly strike.

Nature can be very cruel and this should be acknowledged. In many places roos have become plague proportions and economic use should be made of them.

If the teary, hand wringing lot want to save animals they could concentrate on those threatened with extinction. The Bilby for example, but it is only small so not very noticable.