Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer

[walrus]

Cats have naturally become a problem for some of the native birds, along with possums, rats and the like.

I think owners do carry some responsibility in these areas to place a bell or something similar on their pet where native wild life is at risk. This won't help every bird/ lizard etc but it's a start I suppose.

I made my cat a pair of slippers so she wouldn’t be so loud when she walked

[Alpha]

Cats have naturally become a problem for some of the native birds, along with possums, rats and the like.

I think owners do carry some responsibility in these areas to place a bell or something similar on their pet where native wild life is at risk. This won't help every bird/ lizard etc but it's a start I suppose.

I made my cat a pair of slippers so she wouldn’t be so loud when she walked

It's an impossible thing to control. Even some birds, will raid other types of bird species nests.

[Freedom]

People should not have brought house cats, Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus), and black rats (Rattus rattus) with them to Islands where they don't belong.

Eradication of both feral cats and the two rattus species results in a slow increase in the number of endangered birds.

Large Island Declared Rat-Free in Biggest Removal Success

South Georgia Island near Antarctica is now teeming with native wildlife, thanks to an effort to remove invasive rats that had been devouring birds.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/...e-animals-spd/


An Evaluation of Feral Cat Management Options Using a Decision Analysis Network

https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol15/iss4/art10/

Efforts are needed to protect native species from feral cats

https://phys.org/news/2016-11-effort...cats.html#nRlv

[Freedom]

Cats Responsible For Driving Many Species To Extinction

https://www.iflscience.com/plants-an...to-extinction/

Invasive predators major cause of species extinctions

Introduced rodents, such as black rats and house mice, have the most widespread impacts of invasive predators worldwide, linked to the extinction of 75 species, including 52 birds, 21 mammals, and two reptiles.

Feral cats aren’t far behind, coming a close second, contributing to 63 extinctions.


On some islands, rats do slightly more damage than cats. On large continents like North America however, where native predators like hawks, foxes and Great Horned Owls prevent invasive species of rats from spreading into wilderness areas, cats do far more damage to native songbird populations, especially because unlike rats they are sustained and protected by their human owners.

I saw a Cooper's Hawk take a Norway rat in a large local park not too long ago. Rats are just the right size to make for a good meal for a Great Horned Owl, a Cooper's or Red-tailed Hawk or a Coyote, and probably easier to catch than native rodents which have adapted to these native predators during many thousands of years of evolution.

[Alpha]

It is national dog day today 😉

[walrus]

Cats Responsible For Driving Many Species To Extinction

https://www.iflscience.com/plants-an...to-extinction/

Invasive predators major cause of species extinctions

Introduced rodents, such as black rats and house mice, have the most widespread impacts of invasive predators worldwide, linked to the extinction of 75 species, including 52 birds, 21 mammals, and two reptiles.

Feral cats aren’t far behind, coming a close second, contributing to 63 extinctions.


On some islands, rats do slightly more damage than cats. On large continents like North America however, where native predators like hawks, foxes and Great Horned Owls prevent invasive species of rats from spreading into wilderness areas, cats do far more damage to native songbird populations, especially because unlike rats they are sustained and protected by their human owners.

I saw a Cooper's Hawk take a Norway rat in a large local park not too long ago. Rats are just the right size to make for a good meal for a Great Horned Owl, a Cooper's or Red-tailed Hawk or a Coyote, and probably easier to catch than native rodents which have adapted to these native predators during many thousands of years of evolution.

This is redicoulos. @Freedom is calling for feline genocide. 99% of everything that has lived has gone extinct while humans kill endangered species for trinkets. @Master I call for the immediate ban of freedom for his hostility and threatening to kill every cat on the planet. He has gone too far this time.

[walrus]

Despite the large numbers of birds killed by cats in gardens, there is no clear scientific evidence that such mortality is causing bird populations to decline. This may be surprising, but many millions of birds die naturally every year, mainly through starvation, disease or other forms of predation. There is evidence that cats tend to take weak or sickly birds.

We also know that of the millions of baby birds hatched each year, most will die before they reach breeding age. This is also quite natural, and each pair needs only to rear two young that survive to breeding age to replace themselves and maintain the population.

It is likely that most of the birds killed by cats would have died anyway from other causes before the next breeding season, so cats are unlikely to have a major impact on populations. If their predation was additional to these other causes of mortality, this might have a serious impact on bird populations.

Those bird species which have undergone the most serious population declines in the UK (such as skylarks, tree sparrows and corn buntings) rarely encounter cats, so cats cannot be causing their declines. Research shows that these declines are usually caused by habitat change or loss, particularly on farmland.

image:
Cat, hunting. Marshside RSPB reserve, Southport, Lancashire, England.

Read more at https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wi...3lW05mEZdbs.99

As u can see freedomito this is fake news created by ((them)) the truth is above

[brocktonblockbust]

It seems that white people are crazy for cats. And a very high percentage of those white people are also cigarette smokers. You just can't make this stuff up there's a different correlation there and it is nauseating