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["Jim Fruth" <jfruth@tds.net>]

   One pair of Robins can do $200 worth of damage in my black raspberry 
patch.  Make that $600 by adding their clutch of offspring.  Now multiply 
that dollar figure by all of the other kinds of fruit-eating birds and 
multiple that by all other kinds of berries the dastardly birds eat.  If the 
cat nay-sayers had their way and cats were minimized, we'd have an explosion 
in the bird population and no berries for ANT OF US to eat.  I wish bringing 
more feral cats home would solve my bird problem.

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
www.bberryfarm.com
(218)568-8483 [Store]
(218)831-7018 [My Cell]

*Wisconsin Voters Back Plan to Hunt Cats **     *               February
15, 2007
"Estimates of the number of songbirds killed each year by feral cats in
Wisconsin alone range from 8 million to 217 million,
though the number is actually believed to be around 39 million, said
Steven Oestreicher, the chairman of the congress."
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=662272&page=1