Feral Cats have wiped out several entire populations of Cyclura carinata in the Turks and Caicos Islands years ago. In fact Auffenberg wrote a paper detailing their extirpation. On Key Largo near the sanctuary for the endangered woodrat that has been in the stomach analysis of 2 Burmese Pytons is near THE OCEAN REEF CLUB where hundreds and perhaps thousands of wild feral cats live and are fed by residents living there. In fact the info I have is that there is a fund set-up for their feeding costs to be paid by the residents and fed by the staff. Why don't we hear about the cats who have probably damned near wiped the rats out themselves in the first place. Pythons living there would be beneficial because they would eat the cats but they are defined as the problem which they clearly are NOT....WONDER WHY NO ONE HEARS ABOUT THE FERAL CATS FROM THE RESEARCHERS OF THE PYTHONS?...
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Tom Crutchfield

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