Do you favor the DNR take steps to define free roaming feral domestic cats by the previously mentioned definition and list free roaming domestic feral cats as an unprotected species?
Here is the definition of Unprotected (taken from the 2004 Small Game Hunting Regulations pamphlet). Unprotected Wild Animals The following wild animals are designated unprotected. No closed season, bag limit, size limit or possession limit applies to these animals: • Opossum, skunk and weasel. • Starlings, English sparrows, coturnix quail and chukar partridge. • Any other wild animal that is not a Game Animal, Game Bird, Game Fish, Fur-bearing Animal, Protected Wild Animal, or Endangered or Threatened Species. By defining feral, free-roaming cats as unprotected, it would become legal to hunt them year round, with no bag limit. “Feral, free-roaming cats” would be defined as: any domestic type cat which is not under the owner’s direct control, or whose owner has not placed a collar on such cat showing it to be their property. This means that any cat that is outside unattended, with no collar, could be hunted. This is our interpretation based on the wording of the proposal and the defini
