Posted on 03/02/2019 12:29:49 PM PST by Albion Wilde
Here’s an alarming but little-known figure—stray cats and pet cats allowed outdoors kill 3.6 million birds every day on average in the United States, for a total of at least 1.3 billion birds per year. That’s most likely a sizable chunk out of the U.S. land-bird population, which the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center estimates is around 10-20 billion....[snip]
But some cat lovers are also bird lovers. Two of them, a birdwatcher named Nancy Brennan and a bird biologist named Susan Willson, have developed what they believe is a solution...
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
You've got touchtypinginthedarkittis.
I recognize the symptoms.
I'd recommend Dr. Otto Kor Wrecked, but the kure is wurst than the dee zees...
I hear ya! Cat food is more expensive than ours. I buy boneless, skinless chicken breasts at Walmart for $1.99/lb. with a sodium content of 40 mg per serving. I also purchased a cheap meat grinder from Amazon that works like a charm on chicken. I serve my kitties ground chicken (cooked) and it really is much more cost-effective, but I don’t always have time to grind it. We have a diabetic cat and a cat with kidney/bladder issues and they both require prescription diets. The other cats get Fancy Feast when I don’t have homemade food prepared. The cat food bills are about double the human food in this house!!!
Husband and I were at the cat food shelf looking for what we hoped would be acceptable to our 17 yr old finicky friend. We were reading labels and discussing her likes and dislikes, and I looked over at a woman by us who started laughing, as did I, as she was doing the same thing. I noticed several other shoppers also being selective. Our collie was so much easier to please!
Sounds great! And yes, most people can’t believe just how expensive cats can run in the food department Ha! But we loves them
Yeah, i shouldt even try to repky to stuff with my phone
I wonder what the figures are re: solar panel and windmill bird killing.
Several of you on this lively thread have objected to the word "murder" and its use by liberals who hypocritically promote abortion. Just letting you know I agree with you in spirit; however, I took that turn of phrase as a "made you look" moment, which seems to have worked— 146 replies.
Blessings to all of you for your caring hearts; and know I share your prayers for the unborn, and for the conversion of those who heinously treat unborn children this way.
I agree; especially the windmills are mega-deadly to birds.
Now THAT's funny!
Non so. Mai tengo il spumoni per dolce a casa nostra, per che sono intollerante al lattosio! Al gatto piace i "treats."
Ha! My cats like treats too. Lots of them. As long as they cost at least $15 a pound
I agree that ferals are a huge problem; and there's no obligation to try to capture them to collar them when they are a danger to so many species, including humans. I can see why you had to dispatch the one that harmed your dear kitties.
We used to live in a dense city in a rowhouse. One day a feral alley cat who looked almost identical to our tabby housecat got in through the second-story cat door (within an alcove on a rooftop deck) in the near-dawn hour. Somehow he had scaled a brick wall to get up there, entered the second floor and made his way to the top floor bedrooms, forgetting the pathway by which he got in. He jumped up on my child's windowsill, attracted by the outdoor air, and began growling and clawing at the screen to try to get out. My kid was too scared to get out of bed and called to me that there was a strange cat in his room. I told him to hide under the comforter and ran down two flights to open a can of tuna and run back up two flights to lure it with the tuna downstairs and out the door. No way was I going to touch that thing -- it might have clawed me or given me a disease.
It turned into a good lesson with my kid -- although that cat looked almost identical to our cat, he had been raised with different "values," privileges, and training -- and hence could not behave with safety around civilized people.
That said, I think the cat collar article above is directed at the owners of housecats. Or, as the housecats call them, "the help."
You know, I had never actually read the fable itself. Thanks for the link!
I don’t think the pherome collars will stop them from hunting. It’s just a suggestion that they might enjoy wearing them because they have a pleasant aroma.
https://www.petco.com/shop/en/petcostore/product/sentry-calming-collar-for-cats
Ruger 10/22.....Oh how many notches it has......Hate cats.....worthless vermin.
I understand. I have a backyard cat. It will not come in the house. It is/was a feral four years ago. I put food out for her and she would sneak into the yard to eat it. Gradually, very gradually, she began to spend more time in the yard. Now she comes right up to me when I put the food out. I would never try to pick her up.
I wish she would come in the house where it is safer. There are lots of hawks and some coyotes in the area. Maybe in a few more years.
Wonder what the rat population would do without cats?
Until you hurt/kill one of my cats...
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