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This statement is true. However, avian species make up about 20% of a feral cats diet. We have some 90 million or so estimated ferals and the estimates by ABC/Audubon/FWS etc are tens of millions of birds a day killed by free roaming feral and domestic cats-After all we have 300 million folks in the USa and a new culture w/different values ar ecoming ot America. Everyone from Russian to Peru. We got it all. To maintain liberty ew need order. 60% have cats, 60% of the rural owners have multiple cats, many of the domestic free roaming semi-feral cats make a lot of kills too. They are not the only thing killing birds or the sole reasson for the decline of birds. However, free range for any thing was outlawed years ago. My idiot airedale is perimeter trained. Dogs kennels with a top make a fine cat habitat & the cat'll live three times longer. Beyond property rights and ecological concerns there is the basic premise of civic duty to respect your neighbors rights. Its just right or wrong. I look forward to the day when it is once again a sin to kill a mocking bird in Texas.
I am right with you on all that, Pard. A neighbor near me keeps a full cat feeder in his open garage 24 hours a day and there are eight or ten cats lounging in his yard at all times.
I lost one long time nesting pair of Mockingbirds and another of Blue Jays before I just stopped looking for birds in my yard. I lost count years ago of the cats I've taken to animal control.
I've found indoor homes for two litters born on my own property.
I've lost 5 fledgling mocking birds and a bunch of doves fledglings. Tey nest inmy hangin baskets. THey look like they had hypodermic needles for wounds. Many had their heads crack & brain pan fed on. Clearly cat sign. Bought an airedale and she run them but will not bite. I got a saint for a neighbor-everyone loves him-he throws deed out on his carport -just loose. Late at night you can se th rats feeding.
I love the doves too. We once rehabilitated a nest of the Mexican Ground Doves and released them here. They came back for ten or twelve years and brought others, but I've quit watching for them now.
just a quick note here from a first time reader. I have been aware of feral predations on our birds and bunnies for thirty years and took a sometimes unpopular stance on the issue of cats outdoors- I'm not afraid to say I shoot every one I see- what of the federal statute prohibiting the introduction of invasive and non-indigenous species? cats are non- indigenous so everytime one is trapped, neutered and released it is in direct violation of that statute and the individual releasing should be prosecuted to the full extent. I can also call bullshit on the ridiculous notion that shooting feral cats does not impact the population of cats- re: another cat will move in to fill the void- what crap!- oh sure- that may happen for a while but I can attest to the reduction of feral numbers in MY neighborhood.- Reverend, President, chaiokitty.com
Hallelujah, Reverend! It sounds like you're preaching pure Gospel to me (and I'm not even religious). My father used to set a wooden box trap whenever we saw a stray in the yard. When he caught it he'd load his old Remington Automatic model 11 quail gun and take it to the pasture. Dad rarely missed a shot on birds and never on cats.
To anyone thinking that is cruel or inhumane I will say it was a whole lot more merciful death than those feral pets give each of the dozens or hundreds of our fauna they kill each year.
Our Congress seems to have a clue now they'd better start thinking green, and I'm glad to see you're educating folks about protecting our wildlife.
Thanks for the praise Dick. Our website, while perhaps a bit hardline, has tons of irrefutable information, re: university, privately funded and government studies attesting to the inescapable conclusion that cats in the outdoors have a significant impact on wildlife. As long as irresponsible pet owners allow their cats access to the outdoors this problem will not become solvent. I can't begin to count the number of cats that get dumped along the road in rural areas because the cute little kitty mommy and daddy got for little suzie at christmas grows into a plant shredding, curtain climbing, litterbox disdaining bundle of pent up aggression and rather than do the honorable thing, the beast goes for a ride- leaving myself and a too few others with no viable options other than termination. I would rather NOT have to clean up someone else's mess but to turn a blind eye to the problem would make me no better than the ignorant slobs who create this problem. Rev, chaiokitty.com
Your group may be hard line, but not nearly so callous as some of the cat enablers.
I recall one blog I visited on this platform and read the woman was bragging about her cat killing every rabbit within miles. Others "see only a few" and others are in denial their kitty has ever killed a thing.
To me, one stray pet killing our fauna is too many, much less millions!
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