Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1910 — CATS SLAUGHTER GAME BIRDS [ARTICLE]

CATS SLAUGHTER GAME BIRDS

Saml-Wild Animals Become Serious Menace In Oregon—Plan for Extermination. v Marshfield, Ore.—Calvin Wright, one of Coos county’s game wardens, gives it as his opinion that the worst enemy of the game birds in this locality is the house cat which has become wild. Mr. Wright has jusC returned from an extensive trip up and down the coast country, and he declares that the cats are doing away with the gaipe birds. Coos county is a great place for cats, both In the cities and the country districts, and they have increased with such rapidity that there are not homes sufficient for all of them. As a consequence the cats have become wild and run in the woods. Mr. Wright says that the increase of these semiwild animals in the woods is much greater than would be imagined. He says that the cats not only break up the nests and kill or drive away the old birds, but that they devour scores of the young before they are able to protect themselves. So great has become the menace that Deputy Wright will take up the cat matter with State Game Warden Stephenson and will advocate the paying of a bounty for the killing of cat* which are not properly confined.