That last liberal just hit the spot.
Posted on 08/06/2012 2:16:31 PM PDT by ColdOne
Pet kitties and their wild feral relatives kill a shocking 500 million birds and over 3 billion other animals according to new studies, prompting a leading Washington-based bird protection group to demand that local governments order their dog catchers to snag cats too.
One disturbing new study is based on evidence from "KittyCams" strapped on to 60 outdoor pet cats in Athens, Ga. The results: They each averaged 2.1 "kills" a week. Just 13 percent were birds, the rest voles, lizards, chipmunks, frogs and small snakes.
Based on the joint University of Georgia-National Geographic study of pet cats and another of feral cats from the University of Nebraska, the American Bird Conservancy said over 4 billion birds and animals are killed yearly by the felines, four-times the previous estimate. The group blames the extinction of some birds on the killer cats. "Cat predation is one of the reasons why one in three American bird species are in decline," said George Fenwick of the conservancy.
While it would be hard to get cat owners to keep their pets inside, the group wants cat lovers and local governments to stop coddling feral cats and round them up.
"Wildlife are being slaughtered and so often community leaders only seem to express concern for the cats," conservancy spokesman Robert Johns told Secrets.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
OK....FIRST: WHO authorized the $$ for this stupid arse study?
2: What blithering idiot does not recognize an animal searching for FOOD!? They do not kill for the fun of it!
3. Are the same people with their knickers in a twist about cats killing birds, the SAME ones that are OK with abortion????
They are damned IDIOTS asnd the worse IDIOTA S are those that ALLOW these horsechit “studies” to go on.
I rest my case
LOL!
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That last liberal just hit the spot.
Classic. When I was a kid, we lived on a river. Our cat used to leave a trail of dead river rats behind him when he went hunting. I didn't see anyone complain. "Better dead down there, than live and in my house", approximately, was the opinion.
LOL, what a great article. This whole country is nuts.
Two issues: Domestic and feral cats are not native to the Americas; pet cats are generally well fed - they hunt instinctually and don’t consume their prey. Nothing natural about it.
next up, a series of tax credits for Chinese restaurants
They also spread toxoplasmosis
Ditto - me and my Min Pins !!!
This is what happens when drugs are involved with impaired, Liberal minds. The drugs accentuate their impairment, and make everything exaggerated.
My studied, and extremely humble opinion :)
So what’s next? Re-education camps for cats? Sensitivity training, instructions on tolerance toward birds and other small animals?
Cats, big and small, are nature’s perfect killers. Dey iz skilled at teh art. Not much to be done about that.
So what’s next? Re-education camps for cats? Sensitivity training, instructions on tolerance toward birds and other small animals?
Cats, big and small, are nature’s perfect killers. Dey iz skilled at teh art. Not much to be done about that.
Jeez, not this again...
I’ve never understood just why it is that the “experts” who put forth this particular argument don’t take the time to consider that small cats exist to fulfill a certain ecological niche?
Maybe, just maybe, before domestic cats were brought to North America, bobcats were eating just as many of those poor little birdies and micies? I’ve always maintained that in populated areas, domestic cats have merely filled the bobcat’s ecological niche.
I also believe that if we were indeed to eliminate domestic cats (as some of the more radical proponents of this particular argument have proposed), we’d simply see more bobcats moving into populated areas. Nature abhors a vacuum.
And the only reason we don’t keep bobcats as pets is that as they mature, they’re easily ten times the sprayers that domestics are, and even neuter/spay doesn’t stop them from doing it.
Sorry bout that....new laptop, VERY sensitive touchpad.
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