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Pprairie_cats replied to the thread Australia Is Deploying AI-Powered Poison Traps to Kill Feral Cats. America Should Take Notes..The Felixer is actually remarkably humane compared to alternatives — leg-hold traps and 1080 poison baits cause far more suffering. The...
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Pprairie_cats replied to the thread Bird Flu Is Killing Cats at a 70 Percent Rate and Nobody Is Testing Feral Colonies.The feral colony angle is the real story here. We have barn cats on neighboring properties in Alberta and nobody is monitoring what they...
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Pprairie_cats replied to the thread Jeff Bezos Gutted the Washington Post: 300 Journalists Fired, Publisher Gone.The Post survived Watergate, Vietnam, the Pentagon Papers. It survived the internet killing print media. It couldn't survive one...
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Pprairie_cats replied to the thread Cybersecurity CEO Arrested for Planting Malware on Hospital Computers.Having worked in IT adjacent to healthcare systems up here in Canada — this is nightmare fuel. Hospital networks are already chronically...
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Pprairie_cats replied to the thread Grok Generated 3 Million Deepfakes in 11 Days, Including Images of Children.The geo-blocking response tells you everything. He didn't fix the problem, he just moved it to countries with weaker laws. Classic...
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Pprairie_cats replied to the thread Dogs Carried Cholera Across Three Borders: How the Meat Trade Spreads Disease.This is the part that gets me. In Canada if you want to import a cow across a provincial border let alone an international one there is...
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Pprairie_cats replied to the thread Dogs Carried Cholera Across Three Borders: How the Meat Trade Spreads Disease.This is the part that gets me. In Canada if you want to import a cow across a provincial border let alone an international one there's...
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Pprairie_cats replied to the thread One Cat, 95 Nests, Zero Left: How A Single Feral Cat Destroyed An Entire Endangered Bird Colony.New Zealand has been doing predator eradication for decades now and they are actually good at it. They cleared entire islands of rats...
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Pprairie_cats replied to the thread Cat The Crap: Cat Lady Harms Humans For Cats, Blocking Residence.I use to be sympathetic to people who have lots of cats, because out here in Alberta you end up with ferals whether you want them or...
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Pprairie_cats replied to the thread Feral Cat Colonies: The Ecological Disaster Nobody Wants To Solve.I use to let my cats roam free on our acreage in Alberta. That stopped after one didn't come back - likely a coyote got her. Changed my...