Weren't a breeding pair deliberately released?
Don't some US states have similar rules against hamsters? I'm amazed hamsters even manage to reproduce they hate each other.
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Ahh Australia the home to the most poisonous snakes and spiders in the world, I believe the only venomous mammal, kick boxing marsupials and STI riddled drop bears and what is the species they are most worried about.........?
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(That's mine by the way, Britsh Blue, what else?)
Oh and non indigenous fruit as well apparently
Cats are evil creatures though. :P
I do like British Blues, but based on the few people I know who have had them they have absolutely no road sense.
Oh yeah she has to live inside thick as mince.
Not true CG they're not evil they just don't give a f*ck.
Duly noted. :P
There was an article stating that cats have been linked to the endangerment of a load of bird species, though I never looked into it enough to see whether it was true. Sounds feasible.
Its a common theory, but its also genrally attributed to changing farming practices as well as issues on their migratory routes. I think they were talking about cookoos that migrate through spain to africa having higher mortality than those that migrate through italy and this is partially responsible for their decline (other theories had been decline in the species whose nest they lay their egss in)
If I remember correctly, deliberately in the sense of the people owning them were bored of their not-so-new pets so just released them. It wasn't done with the intention of starting a wild population. There were also other releases and escapees from various estates around the country. They were quite popular as a pet amongst the upper class at one point, then everyone just kinda got rid of them when they went out of fashion, but they survived in the wild and thrived.
They're too bitey to make good pets.
Pffft do you think a toff actually held one?! They would've paid someone else to get bitten on their behalf :p