“Domesticated cats are NOT destructive to wildlife and I'm not even going to hear about it, I am sorry.”
So, you are disagreeing with the studies and resulting facts that domesticated cats are destructive to wildlife?
As per you: “My cats caught a bird, they always do this,” and “Yes I'm sure my cats have killed lots of animals like all cats do,”
Honestly, I’m not being argumentative. (I don’t want you swearing at me!) Don’t you see you are being defensive of your pets doing the same thing you blame humans for. Yes, it’s their nature as they are still predators, but we don’t have to exacerbate the problem by permitting them to roam free. They shouldn’t be hunting as they are domesticated. They aren’t in the wild hunting for survival.
Forgive me, but I keep looking at your screen name and equate your response to your cats killing wildlife....to Marie-Antoinette’s response to the death of beings she was responsible for. Just sayin’. Please read the articles I’ve posted links to and try to see we all are responsible for this earth and the living creatures who are a part of it.
As a final note I once lived in a county in the South, where pet owners let their cats roam free resulting in an abundance of feral cats. The county was putting down over 3,000 cats a month! So sad because not only did the cats suffer along with the wildlife, the domesticated cats were being killed or diseased.
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LetThemEatCake (2717)
7 years ago
Well Marie Antoinette never actually said that, it was a rumor. I'm sorry, I've read the arguments and studies and they always come from people who love birds or work for bird related organizations and I don't like it because a) there's just no way cats are the biggest threat to wildlife and b) it just perpetuates this notion that cats are a pest that needs to be eradicated. Just look at what you said, a county putting 3 thousand cats down? That is a scandal. First of all no healthy animal should EVER be put to death. Ever. Not even feral animals. How can we say "oh cats are killing wildlife" when such unbelievable abuse is happening to cats? by people? The way I see it it's the cats that are being exterminated and that suffer greatly everyday.
As a side note I have to say that any person that works in a place and puts a healthy animal to death is an absolute psychopath. I'm sorry, there's no way a sane person can do that for a living. And that's another thing that bothers me, us animal loving people somehow put those workers on pedestals and then point the finger at owners that are irresponsible or overpopulation as somehow causing it, no, these people are murderers.
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Frogarama (12942)
7 years ago
Problem with domesticated cats is they kill for instinct, not food, so then they kill again and again. But backyard cats are a minimal impact, the real impact is from the ones allowed to roam free.
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justbrowsing (5)
7 years ago
Once a cat goes feral, they are almost impossible to domesticate. They have to be put down. I worked for a small company out in the country. The owners were able to trap four to bring inside the shop to feed and water, but they never were domesticated. Another stray wondered by so food was being put outside closer and closer to the trap. We finally got it inside. It went wild clawing and screaming. I took one look and told the owners the cat was dying so we took it to the one vet who treated wild animals for free. Sure enough, feline leukemia the death sentence. I always look at their gums if it lets me. If the gums are white it’s a sign of the leukemia.
The cats captured by the county weren’t healthy so they didn’t put them down willynilly. They were feral, starving, diseased with feline leukemia a horrible, painful disease which is fatal.
People move and leave their animals behind to fend for themselves by living on lizards, birds, rats....anything to survive.
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