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Our glorious tory government was thinking of "culling" them in a bid to prevent the spread of covid. It would have been nothing short of a massacre, mass murder, and totally unjustified. I hope it never comes to it in the future.
www.theguardian.com
The UK government considered whether it might have to ask people to exterminate all pet cats during the early days of the Covid pandemic, a former health minister said.
It was unclear whether domestic cats could transmit coronavirus, James Bethell said.
He told Channel 4 News: “What we shouldn’t forget is how little we understood about this disease. There was a moment we were very unclear about whether domestic pets could transmit the disease.

UK cat cull was considered early in Covid crisis, ex-minister says
James Bethell says government considered whether all pet cats might have to be put down to contain virus