"BUT...the important point is what this will mean to herp keeping. I think it is eventually doomed. As someone stated you can't make someone take care of something and it is human nature not to...look at our environment! "

I fear you are right.

"What evidence has been presented of monitors feeding on cats? Not that I care about the cats. Domestic and feral cats are a major wildlife problem. If you let them outside...I don't care what happens...because you obviously don't."

I agree that feral cats have a great impact on wildlife; they don't belong "in the wild" any more than any other introduced species anywhere. As a species that doesn't belong, they might as well be a food source for something else; at least then their lives are not wasted. And I am a cat owner as I noted before.

But the public at large considers cats and dogs "normal" pets. And a lot of the general public looks at reptile keepers as rather less than normal. No matter how I examine this issue, we, the reptile keepers, end up losing in the long run. Fluffy will always trump Scaly in the public's affections.

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