Feral cats and a spineless decision from the Audubon Society
In 2000, my wife and I visited Cape Cod with our year-old son. During the trip, I spent a day striped bass fishing with Massachusetts-based outdoors scribe Ted Williams. It was an honor to share a Mako with arguably the nation’s best conservation and environmental writer.
Williams has been one of the few outdoors scribes willing to report on issues many sportsmen ignore, which is why Outdoor News has reprinted some of his articles over the years. He cuts through the BS and tackles obvious abominations like the tribal black market in eagle feathers, feral cats (in Hawaii and on the mainland), climate change, exotic species, and lousy coldwater fisheries management.
Like the late, great outdoor communicator from South Dakota, Tony Dean, Williams has mentored and inspired other conservation writers around the country. His “Incite” column in Audubon magazine and his writing in fly-fishing publications regularly identifies good fights for sportsmen and environmentalists alike. He’s challenged citizens to look beyond their own political beliefs and maintain their guard against the true threats to hunting, fishing, and the environment.
This weekend, however, Audubon severed its ties with Williams, one of its magazine’s field editors, after the Orlando Sentinel printed his piece about the obvious dangers feral cats pose to wildlife. The original article can be found here.
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I commented there, but I don't think my comment *about meat-eating will be understood by anyone who reads it.
(and I was right, it wasn't.)
(It's stupid to explain MYself to meat-gobblers 
but just in case link-stalking me has given any good animal lovers of DU the impression that I have outdoor cats, I've edited all the cat pictures on my Flickr to clarify how I have not kept outdoor cats for at least 15 years.
My fecund cow-grilling neighbors can go on disapproving of me for all the time, money and effort I've spent fixing feral cats who they don't even realize I've brought in, but whatever, Fuck their selfish monkey asses. I will clear this shit up online though so you can find real reasons to hate on me, OK: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stunt-cat/ )
