Well I guess that the verdict is in, feral cats pose no threat to wildlife... Boy glad I can throw those reems of notes into my new "Enron 5000 shreader"... So We must live with them , well good , then maybe when CA-F&G comes to the door we can drop the (you know whats) into a hole in the floor and say they are feral weasels but capturing them would be unethical and we could put together a club or such supporting feral weasels . Since they can't rid us of feral cats then they can't rid us of feral weasels .. So there we have it ... Hey I got an idea , if we can get some semen from the rapidly reclining black footed ferret population we could get offspring that are part "endangered species" thusly they couldn't bother them . It would help strengthen the BFF gene pool as it's what 15 original BFF's ... With such a limited population they are doomed anyway. Heck they wrote them off before they were even gone... Would be nice to repopulate the BFF's areas, but then that's US department of the interiors (sounds like a government group of interior decorators{ "More windows in that dam,, mauve curtains on those submarines, lets give that nuclear silo a splash of teal and sea mist and get that damn bomb thing out of there , it just ,,,,clashes with the whole idea!!"}) \ pet project to let ranchers feed their herds with cheap range land, they don't want the praire dogs as they make holes that the steers trip on.... Ok rant over, so what have we learned with this exercise,, feral cats are good, ferrets bad,, Black footed ferrets will die off because the feds want to give ranchers cheap rangeland and kill off the praire dogs that feed the BFF, and the department of the interior is actually the department of the exterior ... Sounds like the pentagon ,, such a cost over run that they had enough money left for a fifth wall.... I'm diving back into the burrow,, safer underground,,, Death Adder [Posted in FML issue 4261]