Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer

[walrus]

I disagree with people who allow their pet cats to roam the streets and refuse to control breeding. That's where humans become irresponsible owners for me.

I fix my cat but do let her walk around outside. I have a big yard and she just roomps around, lays in the sun and kills a few mice, snakes and birds. My neighbors have two German Shepard’s which keeps her from roaming

[Gandalf]

That's good. For me it is the uncontrolled breeding that is the problem. Cats are similar to low IQ humans in that they can be very friendly, but just want to have millions of babies and will as Freedom points out use violence on a whim. They have no consideration of their future environmental impact. That is where us super eugenics types must rip out wombs and protect the planet. It's all for their own good of course.

[walrus]

The average mature cat can have 3 litters with a total of 12 kittens per year; 10.2 surviving kittens of which 4.7 are female
The average litter size is 4 kittens with 15% loss before reaching weaning age (3.4 kittens per litter)
Gender ratio per litter averages of males to females is roughly 46.5% female (of 3.4 kittens = 1.8 males and 1.6 females)
35% spay ratio allowance for offspring (unscientific factor balancing owned and stray cats)
20% annual mortality ratio
Not factored into this equation:

An immature cat's first litter usually consists of 2 kittens versus 4.
Unspayed female cats can begin reproducing at 6 months of age and can produce a litter during the same year of birth.
30% feral mortality
Year Female Cats Minus Died1
(@ 20% mortality) Minus Spayed2
(@ 35% spayed) Breeding Female Cats # Kittens Born # Surviving Post Weaning3 Surviving Female Kittens4
Year 1 0 - 0 - 0 1 female cat will have 12 kittens 10 will survive and 5 will be females
Year 2 6 - 1 - 2 3 female cats will have 31 kittens 26 will survive and 12 will be females
Year 3 15 - 3 - 5 7 female cats will have 79 kittens 67 will survive and 31 will be females
Year 4 38 - 8 - 13 17 female cats will have 203 kittens 172 will survive and 80 will be females
Year 5 96 - 19 - 34 43 female cats will have 519 kittens 442 will survive and 205 will be females
Year 6 247 - 49 - 86 111 female cats will have 1332 kittens 1132 will survive and 527 will be females
Year 7 633 - 127 - 222 285 female cats will have 3417 kittens 2905 will survive and 1351 will be females
Year 8 1623 - 325 - 568 730 female cats will have 8766 kittens 7451 will survive and 3465 will be females
Year 9 4164 - 833 - 1457 1874 female cats will have 22484 kittens 19112 will survive and 8887 will be females
Year 10 10680 - 2136 - 3738 4806 female cats will have 57672 kittens 49021 will survive and 22795 will be females
1http://www.animalsandsociety.org/assets/library/199_s15327604jaws07041.pdf
2http://catvet.homestead.com/devon_rex_project_report_1st_year.doc
3http://la.rsmjournals.com/content/4/1/99.full.pdf
4http://www.royalcanin.us/library/catlittersize.aspx



Freedom is evil calling for feline genocide but the numbers are staggering

[p4pking]

Anything that can fly and still gets killled doesn’t have my sympathy. Do birds even do anything anyways? Only hummingbirds pollinate as far as I know. I’m off to buy feral cats and start breeding them.

[walrus]

Anything that can fly and still gets killled doesn’t have my sympathy. Do birds even do anything anyways? Only hummingbirds pollinate as far as I know. I’m off to buy feral cats and start breeding them.

My man

[Freedom]

Anything that can fly and still gets killled doesn’t have my sympathy. Do birds even do anything anyways? Only hummingbirds pollinate as far as I know. I’m off to buy feral cats and start breeding them.

When I was a boy, I remember how the rotten son of a farmer who lived not far from us destroyed all the Barn Swallow nests on his father's barns. He used to shoot Tree Swallows and Willow Flycatchers too. The adult swallows returned to South America for the winter that year without producing any young.

The next year there were more flies and mosquitoes bothering people and lifestock.

After a few years without the birds that keep the flying insect populations under control, there were an enormous amount of flies in the area during the summer. We couldn't go outside without being bitten.

Barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) https://eu.news-leader.com/story/spo...tica/15792329/

9 cool facts about barn swallows: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/princ...acts-1.3637139


Roadrunners were greatly appreciated by the Indigenous people of Mexico and the Southwestern US, because they kept the number of Rattlesnakes (which are toxic enough to kill a child) down to normal levels.

Coolest living creature on earth: The Roadrunner

[TitoFan]

Anything that can fly and still gets killled doesn’t have my sympathy. Do birds even do anything anyways? Only hummingbirds pollinate as far as I know. I’m off to buy feral cats and start breeding them.

I hear there's one for sale now.

[p4pking]

That cat was a hard mofo, If mosquitos and rattlesnakes had those kind of cajones I could see wanting more birds around.

[Spicoli]

Who doesn't love waking up to a furry arse in your face listening to her whine about eating and drinking again? I mean that's why I look forward to running downstairs and seeing my cat sitting there quietly offering me understanding. He knows my struggle.