Study: Kitties kill 500 million birds, should be regulated

washingtonexaminer ^ | 8/6/12 | Paul Bedard

[workerbee]

The group blames the extinction of some birds on the killer cats.

I guess global warming is losing some of its caché.

[Slicksadick]

Wait until they run the numbers on birds killed running into plate glass windows...
http://www.mnn.com/your-home/at-home/stories/window-glass-silent-bird-killer
A billion a year in North America alone.

[American in Israel]

Perhaps we could put up little federaly mandated signs telling cats not to eat birds. Then we could spend a few billion on a new government department trying to teach cats to read.

[Flag_This]

"Domestic and feral cats are not native to the Americas... Nothing natural about it."

Sucks to be a bird. Adapt or die.

[BenLurkin]

BTTT

[ontap]

huh!! Fat chance!!!

[American in Israel]

Jerusalem is overrun by feral cats, so one year they rounded them all up. Next year they were overrun by feral rats.

Now they leave the cats alone.

Not everything in Nature needs to be screwed with.

[TASMANIANRED]

That worked out so well the first time around.

EPA is banning rodenticides.

Catch and release program for rats in MD.

I’m seeing a pattern.

[mardi59]

Kitty/Bird lovefest. Birdie wakes his friend.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sumn6flhNtg

[MarkL]

Oh my goodness! Are you telling me that predators are killing prey animals? On no, we must intervene and establish social justice between predators and prey!

Mark

[American in Israel]

However mice, which carry serious diseases for humans, and Grizzly Bears, which tend to eat humans now and then are both native species.

So it’s perfectly natural to get sick and end up as grizzly poop.

Still does not make it a good idea, like having a house cat.

[ontap]

They do not kill for the fun of it!

At one time we had four cats and actually they did!!!Their instinct is to hunt so if they get a chance they will do just that. We were always finding dead prey on our porch. Point is the more birds there are the more birds cats will kill...it's a ratio thing!!

[ColdOne]

Where I live no cats. Birds eat them. Yeah I am talking the big birds, falcons, eagles owls.

[elephant]

Cat should be made to become vegetarians. /x

[elephant]

Cat should be made to become vegetarians. /s

[CodeToad]

We need more cats, there are too many birds.

[Mach9]

Years ago, my beautiful momma cat walked in the door with a note attached to her collar. “She needs a bell. She’s destroying the bird population.” My 8-yr. old turned to me and said, “Obviously a liberal. They all love nature, but they hate how it works.” (He was a very precocious child.)

[beaversmom]

Birdie ping.

[mardi59]

I love this. Thanks for posting it. :)

[Fast Moving Angel]

The neighbors’ semi-feral cats hunt in my backyard for alligator lizards, rats and mice, and other nasty stuff. They can hang out as much as they want — they’re automatic vermin control, and I don’t even have to feed them :-)