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i have a better plan:

the population of sick bureaucrats has grown so much that the U.S. population wants to implement a “free-ranging bureaucrat management plan” and is considering options that could include removing the monsters.

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Just did.

This is ridiculous. Before my family were cat fans we loved them when we visited San Juan.

This is as stupid as closing down the National Parks during Covid. The NPS is like a lobotomized trail horse.

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Good morning, I do not comment often but this plan by yet another government agency to manipulate nature and society is beyond the pale. I will donate to a legal defense to stop them from disturbing even one cat. The person or persons who thought up this idea should be brought out to explain to the public how this plan was even thought up. Faceless and nameless bureaucrats should not have the power to implement plans such as this.

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Comment sent. The public have been abused by their governments for years (at least in the States) but the last 3 have been on steroids. Is anyone really surprised at this as just 1 more way to induce unhappiness, destroy history & cherished traditions & otherwise demoralize people with thoughtless (or more likely well-thought) bad acts?

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What's the actual number of cats? Any evidence of overcrowding, diseased or starving animals, dead cats lying in the alleys? I expect not. If the number of cats seems high, surely there are or can be adopt a cat programs, free spay/neuter then release programs?

Another example of people with too much time on their hands needing to feel useful by inventing a 'problem' where none exists and coming up with a 'solution' that offends sane folks and likely creates a worse problem, like plagues of rats.

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The result of a bloated bureaucratic state. Create a problem that doesn’t exist, then institute a solution nobody wants or asked for. SAVE THE CATS!

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Lemme see. Cats been in San Juan for over 500 years. Ecological disaster has had half a millennium to develop due to kitty concentrations. But in that timespan nothing bad has happened apart from the struggle of mama cats trying to raise kittens outside of a human controlled home.

I think I got it. They are bringing all the scary movies from the Seventies into reality. We’ve already seen the Omega Man script play out; watching the developing Soylent Green story line... They’re bringing Willard to real time now.

Because a deep evil has taken control of the levers of power. It seems they do these things for their own entertainment because of the sickness in their souls.

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Thank you for calling attention to this matter. I will submit comments.

As someone who has managed feral cat colonies with TNR, I find this plan horrifying.

There's no reason for euthanasia when they can be fixed and released.

Shame on those who can't see the blessing of God's creatures.

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That's bizarre. Why can't they just set up a spay/neuter program like everybody else?

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Aww gatitos. I've never been but now I want to visit just to see them.

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Done. I’ve been there several times and love the cats. Even if I hadn’t and didn’t, this is just make-work for an all consuming bureaucracy. Disgusting.

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First they came for the cats and some complained. The people were relieved when only half of the cats were "removed," Then they came for the people and the people were relieved when only half of the people were "removed" The kinder, gentler, God-fearing days have become the great dystopian present.

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I just sent this comment..."I heard about the NPS wanting to remove cats from San Juan, Puerto Rico... I am shocked and saddened, I hope the Park Service will rethink this... the people of San Juan love the cats, the tourists love them as well... and they provide a valuable service, that has been going on for hundreds of years... to keep the rat population at a minimum. No city wants rats, though they themselves can be quite cute, they can host terrible disease... unlike a cat. If anything a spay/neuter program to keep the cat population in check is a good plan... as long as the cats are healthy and loved, leave them be. From the many photos I have seen they are just that." Hope with the many others on here sending comments the NPS will rethink it's stupid plan! I myself have 6 cats... we rescued most of them... 2 were born here from a feral cat and we took them in, several just showed up, and we took them in... we get them fixed and then they live a long happy life here on the Funny Farm... all are in the house, or have the garage for shelter in heat or cold... we love our gatos!

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They did this to Paris. Rats as big as cats in the parks. Now instead of cats, the famous black cat 🐈‍⬛ paintings tourists buy, there are dogs EVERYWHERE, in apartments! Cats belong in the city and dogs in the countryside. You have to watch your feet while walking so you don’t step in the dog crap all over.

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Done! I’d visit simply to see the cats. As in places in Europe with dogs and other public animals.

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It might be an ecological disaster... Look at Australia, rabbits, and myxomatosis...

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