Cats

[watervole]

Domestic cats in Britain kill 360 million creatures a year. If I had a pound for every person who says 'It's not my cat. My cat never catches anything' I could buy my own, very large, nature reserve.

Well, someone's 'not my cat' just killed my baby blackbirds.

Comments

[kerravonsen]

Killed the baby blackbirds!?! How awful.

And completely ridiculous to say that "my cat doesn't kill birds" -- cats will kill anything that moves that they can catch. It's the nature of the beast.

Feral cats do huge amounts of damage to Australia's native wildlife -- because not only is it a veritable killing machine, and not only is it a predator amongst prey that isn't used to such a predator, but also because it kills for sport.

(conflicted) I still wuv puddy tats, though. Outdoor cats ought to be belled, though. Though cats are useful for catching mice, very useful.