Most ... if not all farms/stations employ one or more soley on rabbit control. Vets won't be out of work if cats "dissappear" ... less than 1-2 % of their business.
There would be 250-300 people in this area alone working and relying on rabbits for income. From killing them, to manufacture/processing of products, and produce from them. Skins/meat etc.
Sales of ammunition/poison/spotlighting gear would make up a large part of income for MANY farm/rural businesses.
The annual budget for rabbit control on some larger stations is well over $100,000 at least .. and there are plenty of large stations. To take THAT sort of money out of a local town economy ... would hurt a few. A lot more that NO CATS would. Some stations might even start MAKING money ...
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The eating of grass is one issue, the burrows can break the legs of cattle.
If we put the bounty back on the head of a rabbit (& other pests) so that a person has more desire to hunt them down as a form of living/income, there might be a better alternative to other methods used.
Not that the green party would be supportive of this, however.
TOP QUOTE: “The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.”
He may have wanted actual figures, rather than some just pulled out of your arse FJ
In both cases it's just 'service' industry, if either were taken away the money would be spent elsewhere. However, rabbit control is a business expense, so their removal has more of an effect on the profitability of said businesses, so yes, I agree it would have more of an effect on the economy.
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In a survey in 2007 52% of households have a cat, only 30% have a dog.
900,000 to 1.5m cats and just under 500k dogs so i would take a guess and say it is a bit more than 1-2% of their business.
Hummm take to money out of the economy and put it back in as a result of profits, yes I can see how that would fail.
Ask any farmer what if there would rather have cats or rabbits and i bet i can guess the answer.
38 million sheep (at the last census)... dairy cow numbers increasing (in the millions) ... horses .. goats .. birds .. Cats are NOT the mainstay income of MOST vets.
If people can't have a cat ... they'll get a dog. Or a Budgie. People are funny like that.
It's not so much a fail ... just that real people depend on that income. And that income would be in somebody else's pocket.
Most farmers shoot cats too. The (my) issue was not about their preferred choice ... but who relies on that industrys money to live/survive.
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