A large number of feral cats are either domestic cats gone wild, or their offspring.

One solution is to bring in mandatory cat registration, just like dogs with higher rates fir complete cats. Then, the registered cat MUST wear an ID collar and have a chip then, if they get caught roaming away from their register address the owner cops a fine. If they don't have their collar the owner gets a heavier fine and, if they are not reg then they get put down.

It's pointless culling feral cats unless we stop Dom cats from roaming freely as they so often do.

While I'm not a cat hater,But our native wildlife deserves the right to breed and live without fear of being killed by a domesticated roaming cat.

Rehctub is right in suggesting we try to ensure domestic cats aren't breeding, but very strong fines would need to be applied if owners were found to be in possession of non-registered, non-neutered cats.

I would not like to see any change in our firearm laws, as we don't want any non-professional shooters roaming the countryside killing everything in sight.
In order to humanely kill any feral cats, we would need to use shooters who can kill swiftly and cleanly, not idiots playing cops and robbers.

Now it is 'cops and robbers'. Heh, heh.

The site's resident hoplophobe, Suseonline, was going off again. She has seen too many Hollywood movies and always experiences difficulty separating fiction from reality.

There, there Dear, some boys knocking off Indian Mynahs with Daisy air rifles isn't exactly your Elliott Ness and the Untouchables. Cheap and efficient too. Or Grey Nomads taking safe, chemical free game for the table, as is our heritage and that includes your despised 'white' men as well as indigenous.

It is also a whole lot safer than the anal sex you are obsessed with and prosletyse.

Lol OTB!
You are OLO's resident gun nut and misogynist , so we complement each other don't we?

Now you are advocating sending boys and old men racing around the countryside killing feral cats?
Oh gee, I wonder why no one else thought of that?
Good plan....

Come on Suse. You lot paid me to learn how to shoot big cannons at things, with considerable accuracy. Surely you could trust me to shoot a few cats or birds, with a .22 pea shooter.

Actually in my poor youth, we ate a lot of rabbit I supplied to the pot, but they were dug out of warrens with a mattock, we couldn't afford ammunition, & didn't like holes in our food.

I don't know who these professional shooters you are on about are. In my experience, the ones they used in the Brucellosis cull in the north, were about half as good as the kids in our school cadet corps.

On that vane, how about the army? Instead of shooting pretend bullets at pretend enemy up north in their exercises, we could issue them with pea shooters, & let them get some real marksmanship training.

Good Idea Hasbeen.
I would think the army soldiers could do a good job at culling the cats, and get in shooting practice as well.
I have no doubt you would be good at that too, but I still wouldn't like to see our gun laws relaxed just to kill a few feral cats.