https://touch.trademe.co.nz/listing/view/1160421420As my vet told me “outside cats live short violent lives!”
If you love your cat and want to keep it, get a littler box and keep it inside.
Well cats have been around for a long time so you would think birds would be extinct by now. Don’t birds fly though?
This guy does not understand. Now that cats aren’t outside anymore there is an explosion of rabbits, chipmunks, mice, rats. And now we have coyotes, foxes, skunks, hawks filling the void. But we also have ticks and fleas. And of course Lyme disease.
Cats kill mice.
Feral cats kill birds and mice and squirrels because they need to eat.
A domesticated cat kills just for the fun of it...most of the time.
Export them to China.
Our cat, “Cattbutt”, says tell Dr. Marra to kiss her little
cat butt!
A while back the British carried out a study of how house cats affect the small bird and other animal populations, and they were astounded by the vast numbers of these other animals the cats wiped out. Cats are highly efficient killers.
But this being said, the solution to this is not to kill cats or restrict them to the indoors. Instead it should be to breed *replacement* birds, especially, to repopulate and even overpopulate for the losses.
Captive breeding for release is very successful in restoring wild populations of both plants and animals. Done right, so many are released that even with a high attrition rate, eventually natural controls come into play.
It also has the double side effect of increasing the populations of predators that prey on them; but by doing this, to reduce the numbers of unwanted animals, such as mice and rats.
https://touch.trademe.co.nz/listing/view/1160421420 Around here hawks seem like more effective predators against birds than stray cats - coyotes eat the cats.
Wind-turbines kill more birds
While I detest the idea of a cat being in my house, and walking on my kitchen counters after scratching in his own toilet, there is a need for cats particularly on farms. I have a rancher friend who practically bags for people to bring him stray cats to live in his barn and defend his hay supplies from rodents.
Those cats suffer a high mortality rate due to foxes and other predators.
It’s ok for these huge wind turbines to kill birds by the millions, but not ok for one species to survive by eating another. Cats don’t kill many eagles and other birds of prey, but the useless wind mills do.
I say we should humanly put down all stray academics.
Death is ALWAYS the solution to a ‘problem’ in the mind of a progressive.
And who will police the chipmunk population?
My cats are all indoor outdoor cats one who lived till 18
I say eradicate this prick