BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Australians cook up wild cat stew: "Australians have come up with a novel solution to the millions of feral cats roaming the outback - eat them.
The felines are the descendants of domestic pets and kill millions of small native animals each year.
A recent Alice Springs contest featured wild cat casserole. The meat is said to taste like a cross between rabbit and, perhaps inevitably, chicken."
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One of the problems impeding the extermination of the feral cats, so they say, is there is no way to distinguish the feral cats from the owned cats. As a current feral cat hunter in Australia, I have never had a problem distinguishing the two. The domestic cats are the ones you can actually hit. With the feral cats, however, you will score a miss every time. Because they are like lightning! Incredible reflexes. They make the domestic cats look like like those crappy terracotta Mexican black things everyone had on their coffee table in the fifties; motionless and inert. You take a bead on a feral cat, assuming you can even see one, and in an instant they are gone. You take a bead on one of the domestic ones, and they are gone too. However, in a different way. They become deceased. And there lies the paradox of cat hunting in Australia: you can only hit the tame ones. It's a dicey stew for sure, no matter how you slice it. Or sip it. Or whatever you say here in America.
We just say, "Tastes like chicken."
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