> BS, it is their own fault their pets are gone.
Yep, “Gotcha! Your pet messed up my (easily protected) sandbox, now I can kill it.” The owner should have realized that the veneer of civilization in many neighbors is only skin deep. Underneath it many of them lack mercy, and even take pride in being callous (seem to enjoy bragging about killing other people’s pets). The fact that negligent cat owners may have children who love that pet and who will be deeply hurt if it’s killed either doesn’t occur to them, or they just don’t care (not to mention the feelings of the adult). Owner’s fault — gotcha!
If they value the cat that much they why are they letting it roam the neighborhood where it can get hurt or killed? Sounds like they only value their cat that highly after they find out that their neighbors don't.
Here is some more food for thought or food for cats. Your poor little innocent pet kitty isn't so innocent at all.
From the New York times science page.
The American Bird Conservancy estimates that up to 500 million birds are killed each year by cats — about half by pets and half by feral felines. “I hope we can now stop minimizing and trivializing the impacts that outdoor cats have on the environment and start addressing the serious problem of cat predation,” said Darin Schroeder, the group’s vice president for conservation advocacy.
From Science News Magazine
America’s cats, including housecats that adventure outdoors and feral cats, kill between 1.3 billion and 4.0 billion birds in a year, says Peter Marra of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Washington, D.C., who led the team that performed the analysis.
And this from USA Today.
Cats that live in the wild or indoor pets allowed to roam outdoors kill from 1.4 billion to as many as 3.7 billion birds in the continental U.S. each year, says a new study that escalates a decades-old debate over the feline threat to native animals.
From The Washington Post Health and Science.
Outdoor cats are the leading cause of death among both birds and mammals in the United States, according to a new study, killing 1.4 billion to 3.7 billion birds each year.