Of that list the only ones that I feel bad about are the opossums. Squirrels are just rats with cute fluffy tails. Deer reproduce faster than they die. Rats who cares? They eat the wires in your car. F the rats. Raccoons are not nice. When I see a dead squirrel or dead rat or dead raccoon, I rejoice. Dead cats? Cars are the only predator for cats.
Aren’t alligators a predator to cats in Florida?
Unfortunately, in southwestern Ohio, hawks and coyotes are big predators of house cats.
I lost one to a red tailed hawk a year ago.
And coyotes are filmed on Ring cameras catching cats pretty regularly here.
Dogs,coyotes,and raptors are also predators of cats.
My little friend of 18 years was carried off by a worthless hawk. Noble bird ,my a$$!.
Opossums are pretty cool even though they’re ugly. Unfortunately, they move too slow to get out of the way. Unfortunately. Democrats tend to move fast enough to get out of the way. :-(
In a lot of the rural west, coyotes routinely take cats.
“Cars are the only predator for cats.”
We rescued five feral cats from a couple of vicious raccoons several years ago.