This gives me the indication that the author of this article is hypocritical and never, but never, addresses the root cause of the problem of feral cats, namely human behavior. It is time we stopped attacking the cat and looked a little harder at our behavior as we created the feral cat “problem”.

Lastly, there is no hard evidence the feral cat does the kind of damage to wildlife as stated here. Poor article lacking in thought.

All breeders of Savannah’s in Australia (offering kittens for 2009) sell only desexed amimals as pets. Your average joe walking through a shopping centre isn’t going to impulse buy a cute little savannah for his little darling at christmas to put in her handbag just to let it out for good in january for AU$5000 so there is no harm to the environment.

Therefore there is no issue on the environment from these breeds. If for example there were some inscrutable people out there trying to make a quick buck then i’m sure some breedable pets could get out and as stated above they would evole into the dominent species of ferral cats. But dont worry about that, they way things are going we’ll destroy the native bushlands with suburb expansion well before a few dozzen ferral cats become a problem.

The Savannah, Bengal, or other African cats (you forgot all the Egyptian or Thai cat varieties that make up more than 50% of all the domestic cat stock) may not be as far removed from its ancestors as we humans are, but it’s still a mix of a near wild animal and a domestic cat. I don’t see you complaining about people who own a Chow Chow, Pekingese, Shih Tzu, Basenji, Alaskan Malamute or any there of the 14 ancient dog breeds which are as closely related to their ancestors as this hybrid cat that was bred for its looks not its hunger for native Australian marsupials that the foxes or dingo’s, or the suburbs haven’t had a go at yet…

I’m sure we all feel great that we can blame the cat for all the problems with our diminishing wildlife but no-one stops to think about feral dogs or feral humans. Instead of blogging rubbish like this your efforts should be better used towards stopping pet stores in shopping centres selling thousands of pets before Christmas to people who haven’t the skills or future desires to look after some of these animals.

If you want to help, off your Americanized fast food filled ass and do something more constructive about the environment and our wildlife. Alas, I’m sure you’re more likely to sell out the domestic cat instead of selling your car, turning off you’re A/C or doing anything substantial or constructive to help the environment.

The importers displayed real ignorance of genetics, as did a number of scientists and the messybeast website mentioned above. Each generation of cats does not simply have half the serval genes of the previous generation, because breeders select for serval genes by selecting for the serval look. And they claimed escaped genes would dilute in the feral population – Darwin’s theory would indicate those genes would be selected.

This was a good decision for the environment.