>From that study in CA, the American Bird Conservancy was saying that the >answer was to trap and kill the cats. That's the part that really irritated >me. Yeah, cats killed a lot of those birds. The little tigers will kill most >anything that moves. It's their instinct. But the cats got there somehow and >even before people fed them they were there and multiplying like crazy. >Because of a lot of different reasons and a lot of studies, Trap-Neuter-Return >the only way that will have the long term results of cutting the population of >free-roaming cats way down. But, those "bird brains" just want to kill all >the cats as though that will fix everything. I like birds and I like the >people in the ABC, and I really don't think of them as "bird brains" I was >just being funny, but the idiots that run the thing and making those comments >about killing the cats are short-sighted. Everytime I hear something from the >ABC I just get upset before even knowing what they're going to say because I >know how they feel about free-roaming cats and I know they hate TNR. >Obviously, I'm a big advocate of TNR. What I'd really like to say to them is that I wonder how many of those birds are killed when they build the condos and board walks and everything else along the beaches. They need to spend their time fighting that battle before trying to have the cats killed. Maybe they do fight those battles too, but that's my angry comment, and I know it doesn't change the fact that the cats kill the poor birds, but sometimes you just want to tell people off. Oh well, that's my middle of the night rantings about the ABC. I don't like cats killing birds, mice, chipmonks, or even the poor snakes and keeping them inside is the best thing for the cats too. I don't mind using the cat being killers argument to motivate people keeping their pets indoors but leave the ferals alone and don't start talking about killing them.
“I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn’t….the pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.” – Mark Twain > Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:56:46 -0700 > From: hingebacktorto...@yahoo.com > To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Keep Cats Indoors > > Yes, the number one cause of bird extinction is habitat loss, but cats are #2. > There's a well-known study that was conducted on a couple of adjacent beaches > in California, one with a feral cat population and one without. The beach > that is home to feral cats has no birds - remember that most shorebirds are > ground nesters - while the cat-free beach supports a healthy bird population. > Of course, our birds have natural predators - some raptors such as red-tailed > hawks prey mostly on birds. Kingsnakes and rat snakes are known for feasting > on eggs and hatchlings. But this is natural predation & so things are kept in > balance. Throw in a highly efficient predator such as a cat and the balance > changes. > > --- On Tue, 3/22/11, SomeWhere Sam <sin...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > > From: SomeWhere Sam <sin...@sbcglobal.net> > Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Keep Cats Indoors > To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2011, 4:36 PM > > > Sorry but that information is outdated or biased. > > The number one killer of birds is humans due to habitat loss or construction > for > same. > > Humans: The Number One Threat to Birds > http://www.alleycat.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=325 > > SomeWhere Sam > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Bonnie Hogue <ho...@sonic.net> > To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > Sent: Tue, March 22, 2011 2:37:38 PM > Subject: [Felvtalk] Keep Cats Indoors > > In the newspaper today: > > House cats are the #1 predator of wild birds. The American Bird Conservancy > estimates up to 500 million birds per year are killed by cats. About 400,000 > are killed yearly by wind turbines (less than 20% of the number killed by > cats). So now we have another reason to keep our cats indoors -- not only > for > their own health and safety, but for that of our BIRD population! > Save the cats and the birds: Keep Your Cat Indoors! > ~Bonnie > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
