Posted on 06/07/2007 5:48:35 PM PDT by ricks_place
Droves of cats and kittens are swarming into animal shelters nationwide, and global warming is to blame, according to one pet adoption group.
Several shelters operated by a national adoption organization called Pets Across America reported a 30 percent increase in intakes of cats and kittens from 2005 to 2006, and other shelters across the nation have reported similar spikes of stray, owned and feral cats.
The cause of this feline flood is an extended cat breeding season thanks to the world’s warming temperatures, according to the group, which is one of the country’s oldest and largest animal welfare organizations.
“Cats are typically warm-weather, spring-time breeders,” said the group’s president, Kathy Warnick. “However, states that typically experience primarily longer and colder winters are now seeing shorter, warmer winters, leading to year-round breeding.”
“Basically, there is no longer a reproduction lull with cat breeding cycles, and unfortunately, it seems more people are bringing boxes of kittens into our agencies during winter now,” she added.
Studies have shown that global warming is altering the breeding seasons of other animals, such as migratory birds and penguins.
One possible solution to stem the tide of cats is to make sure pets are spayed or neutered.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
Must be how I wound up with 5 kids.
We're doomed! DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!
Humans are generally cold-weather breeders, so why are we not concerned with all the aborted children?
I can’t believe you beat me to that line. :-o
That’s global warming’s fault too!
More bricks and burlap sacks are needed to fight this problem.
Chinese food shortage: SOLVED!
(heads) global warming
or
(tails) the Jews.
The Global Warming idiots are like this
The process is indistinguishable from the
consequences of any belief system, held in
contradistinction from Reason
Cats swarm into shelters and adoption agencies every June.
Since half the lead stories are Climate Change pimping, I never will again, and have placed it in my hosts file in case I inadvertantly follow the wrong link.
I _LIKE_ Science. I do not want to aid its hijacking and prostitution in any way.
Look up the Milankovitch Cycle theory of climate change. It accounts for Earth’s past climate changes, so it probably is a pretty good predictor of future change. Basically, Earth’s orbit has three cyclic changes, orbital precession, precession of the equinoxes, and one I forgot.
Part of the cycles is precession of the seasons, which would account for warmer dryer Octobers and wetter colder Mays.
Could account for shifts in breeding patterns too.
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New!!: Dr. John Ray's
GREENIE WATCH
Ping me if you find one I've missed.
The crapola on this subject is running thicker and thicker by the day.
Are these cats just walking in and plopping down?
Well, I suppose if their job is to be a cat adoption agency then they ought to be happy that there are more cats to keep them in business.
Next thing you know, it will be dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria....
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