The liberal approach to environmentalism is to make people do with less. Helping the environment by hurting people.
The sensible approach to environmentalism is that, if there is a shortage, make more of whatever it is, and release it into the wild.
The difference between the two approaches is that only the latter works. This is because not only is it oriented to solving the problem, but it is indifferent to controlling or oppressing people at the same time.
The liberal approach is actually indifferent to the environment. It wants power, control and money, and sees shortage and deprivation of humans as the way to get it. The extreme of this was the profound pollution and environmental degradation left behind by the communists, that will take a hundred years or more for others to clean up.
So, you want more birds? Make more birds. Don’t oppress the kitty.
I actually observed my cat leap off the deck and snatch a goldfinch that was feeding on a coneflower plant and brought it into the house to show me.......
Where I live I hear a lot of birds singing.
On the other hand, I'm a big fan of inside cats. You can still give them limited access to the "great outdoors," but keep them inside. They live MUCH longer, and you don't have to worry about fights, many diseases, or finding Kitty as roadkill, or just not at all.
Mark
Ah yes, again the Freudian-like explanation for why some men hate cats.......I have long suspected it.
I suppose if push came to shove, I come down on the dise of the cats, being a carnivore like them.
That said, I am helping raise the second batch of yellow billed cardinal chicks in the last few months. The parents come up to my kitchen window in the morning and agitate for me to come out and distribute bread crumbs. They take these back to the nest. The babies from the last batch have not shown up much yet, but they will.
Our cats come out on the lanai while they are there, and know no hunting is allowed. They will chatter at them sometimes, but the birds keep their distance for the most part.
Birds are a prey species. Cats are carnivores. End of conversation. Oh, except that I love my indoor/outdoor cat. We had to say goodbye to our 19 year old indoor/outdoor cat Boris this year so not interested in the debate about how indoor only cats live longer. It just seems that way. We feed birds. We call them welfare birds. But we feed them because they amuse us. We are the humans and it amuses us to have birds in our yard. It does not amuse us to have chipmunks, ground squirrels (or very many tree squirrels), or other rodents so we love our cat. It amuses us to live with a cat. It is totally about us and anything beyond that whether from PETA or anyone else is silly. I just spent $300 to have my geriatric cattle dogs ears cleaned and his toenails trimmed. Okay, they’re doing some other tests but that’s just because that’s what vets do. I mainly took him because of the ears and the nails. He’s 105. I love him. I will keep him happy as long as I can but when he no longer has a good quality of life, I will happily pay the vet to put him down. Or Mr. Mercat will take him out to the farm and shoot him. He’s a dog, not a child.
Do you realize how many cute, cuddly worms are cruelly slain by robins every time it rains around here? Who will speak for the orphaned baby worms, huh? WHO?
“They kill for fun”
No, they don’t, you moron. Stop assigning human qualities and motives to animals. They hunt because they are nature’s most efficient killer. It’s what they do. If their hunting drive bothers you, avoid them and adopt a bunny.
Really...this is a REAL THREAT...cats eating birds???? OMG. This reads almost like satire...
I’m very pro-cat, especially after seeing a huge blob of bird crap on Mom’s Hyundai. Go Puss!!!!
Case closed
Birds bring over 60 diseases to your backyard.
And yet cats and birds have managed to co-exist for all this time.