We just had the spectacle of PETA attempting mass re-education by insisting on calling fish sea kittens. But Down Under cats are in bad odor. FoxNews:

It seemed like a good idea at the time: Remove all the feral cats from a famous Australian island to save the native seabirds.

But the decision to eradicate the felines from Macquarie island allowed the rabbit population to explode and, in turn, destroy much of its fragile vegetation that birds depend on for cover, researchers said Tuesday.

Removing the cats from Macquarie "caused environmental devastation" that will cost authorities 24 million Australian dollars ($16.2 million) to remedy, Dana Bergstrom of the Australian Antarctic Division and her colleagues wrote in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology.

But yet another consequence--how to resolve these conflicts among the eco-zealots? They sound kind of bloodthirsty:

"What was wrong was that the rabbits were not eradicated at the same time as the cats," University of Auckland Prof. Mick Clout, who also is a member of the Union's invasive species specialist group. "It would have been ideal if the cats and rabbits were eradicated at the same time, or the rabbits first and the cats subsequently."

And now they're going to use helicopters to poison the rest of the rabbits. (Isn't this giving humans an unfair advantage? Shouldn't they have to strangle them with their bare hands?)

One person's pet is another's pet cause.