Cats Killing Billions of Animals In The US (your tax dollars at work)

BBC News ^ | 29 January 2013 Last updated at 11:25 ET | By Rebecca Morelle

[drewh]

Cats are one of the top threats to US wildlife, killing billions of animals each year, a study suggests.

The authors estimate they are responsible for the deaths of between 1.4 and 3.7 billion birds and 6.9-20.7 billion mammals annually.

[mmichaels1970]

Ban assault cats!

[knittnmom]

We’re proud of our cat’s feline hunting skills! She once killed a small rabbit, even though she was on a leash at the time, and her front paws are declawed. She can spot a mouse from across the yard, catch it, kill it bloodlessly, and take it back to her tent to eat in leass than a minute.

[jagusafr]

Ban cats! Just kiddin’, hon!

[Doogle]

"I didn't get fat and lazy chasing Greyhounds. Birds are stooopid and mice are fun to play with"

[WinMod70]

Any mention of some sort of a cash bounty in the study?

[Puppage]

[KC_Lion]

[I want the USA back]

The next step is.......? Ban cats? When cats are banned, only lawbreakers will have cats.

[RoadGumby]

How soon before we hear of Cat Turn Ins for gift cards?

[The KG9 Kid]

"... Birds native to the US, such as the American Robin, were most at risk, and mice, shrews, voles, squirrels and rabbits were the mammals most likely to be killed."

"At Risk" voles, for crying out loud? Oh good grief.

Everything's destroying the planet, even HOUSECATS, yet.

Hippies at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute have too much time and funding. Defund them.

[Puppage]

They’re just killing the animals ordinary American cats won’t.

[Timber Rattler]

Idiots:

Killing cats to restore island backfires as rabbits take over

Attempt to Control Invasive Species Backfires Spectacularly on an Antarctic Island

[Rockingham]

Nature is beginning to provide a remedy in the form of coyotes, which find cats a useful suburban food source.

[RoosterRedux]

MY CATS ALONE

[svcw]

Cats kill and eat birds.
Cats kill and eat rodents.
Cats kill and eat lizards/small snakes.
They are cats, that’s what they do that’s who they are.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

I feel already dumber just from having read this.

[Nachum]

Last year Los Angeles County Animal Services took in over 3,800 cats. Approx 3,000 of which were killed.

[1_Rain_Drop]

Let’s discuss windmills and birds.

[rlmorel]

Cats aren’t making a dent in robins that I can see...and mice, shrews and voles...aren’t those...rodents?

[TYVets]

How many millions did it cost to learn that:

Cats kill mice.

[SeaHawkFan]

States that ban the use of dogs in hunting cougars wonder why small mammals in the wild are disappearing; wonder why?

[G-Bear]

And is this not an example of Evolution In Action?

[Yosemitest]

So you want Billions of RATs living around you?

[Gasshog]

stoopid liberals. cats are doing what they are supposed to do kill vermin.

the only vermin the cats are missing is the liberals.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

” Cat Turn Ins for gift cards
I’ll be rich.

[bigheadfred]

We had a mouse move into our daughter’s bedroom one winter. The cat would catch it and play with it for a while and then put it back. We named it Stuart.

[Casie]

I love my little hunters. Mice, moles, birds and bunnies nibbling on my garden bulbs and veggies are fair game!

[mmichaels1970]

Cats kill and eat birds.
Cats kill and eat rodents.
Cats kill and eat lizards/small snakes.

Koreans...oh nevermind...circle of life, circle of life.

[NCDave]

Here`s the gif...if you want it. Yes, assault cats should be banned!! Much scarier with the muzzle flash..lol

[Sirius Lee]

If you have a house you have mice. If you have a cat you have fewer mice. If you have fewer mice and don't have a cat, then you have snakes. If you have a snake infested house you might as well burn it down because you'll never get rid of the smell. I'd rather just put up with having to clean the kitty litter.

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2015331099_snakesonahouse16.html

[Sirius Lee]

If you have a house you have mice. If you have a cat you have fewer mice. If you have fewer mice and don't have a cat, then you have snakes. If you have a snake infested house you might as well burn it down because you'll never get rid of the smell. I'd rather just put up with having to clean the kitty litter.

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2015331099_snakesonahouse16.html

[Owl558]

“At Risk” voles, for crying out loud? Oh good grief.”

Mice are at risk from cats?? By all that is good and pure,something needs to be done! /s

[Revolting cat!]

[bigheadfred]

Last year Los Angeles County Animal Services took in over 3,800 cats. Approx 3,000 of which were killed.

How many were adopted by Vietnamese Restaurants?

[xzins]

As with any animal, cats can have their population controlled. IIRC, the human is the steward of the environment according to God. Therefore, have a cat season on feral cats.

There are actually lots of them in our rural area, and yes, they can be a problem. Generally, they are the offspring of pets whose owners maxed out on the number of cats they wanted and then kept the others as “outside cats to kill mice.” I think an outside cat has a life expectancy of about 3 years.

Nonetheless, if there are too many, then thin the herd.

[Cicero]

Cats are good at what they do.

We have three dogs. The spend a great deal of time going after the red squirrels who visit our bird feeder tree, but they nearly always fail. The squirrel sits up in the tree and teases them, and then makes off when the time is ripe.

Maybe they might get one squirrel a year. They’re very good guards, and they keep the raccoons and coyotes away from the chickens, but they aren’t very good at catching and eating. Seems like the only animals they can usually manage to grab are skunks—and that is not the best choice.

[JRandomFreeper]

And every junebug season, I bring some in for my indoor catz, who have lost NONE of their hunting skills.

/johnny

[Spruce]

[TurboZamboni]

The Eagle and the Hawk, and the Windmills

http://www.minnesotansforglobalwarming.com/m4gw/2011/09/the-eagle-and-the-hawk-and-the-windmills.html

[Billthedrill]

Cats aren't the only ones. Ever since the Bush administration there are all sorts of wildlife killing all sorts of other wildlife and EATING THEM!!

I hope that didn't shock anyone. EBT cards for predators NOW! And anyone who disagrees is just...just...just a speciesist.

[MrB]

the human is the steward of the environment according to God

Now, take the opposite of this, and you get the agenda or the impetus behind this useless study.

Everything God values or commands, the left despises.

[MrB]

Sounds like you could have some fun with a good pellet gun.

[svcw]

If they are to many they will die out.

Many communities, have humane societies that will give you traps for the cats, bring them in have them spayed or neutered and then you released again. That seems like a good plan.

I agree, we are to be stewards of our environment.

[ZX12R]

I have a pitbull mix that kills more animals than my four cats combined. He hates wild animals. So far he’s killed many armadillos, possums, coons, snakes, squirrels, and one of the neighbor’s dogs.

[arkfreepdom]

My cat kills everything. They are killing machines. Awesome. He killed two copperheads last summer and wiped the moles out in my yard. I admit I don’t care for him killing birds, but it’s what they do.

[meowmeow]

Hippies at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute have too much time and funding.

And have neither yards, barns or pantries.

[Dr. Sivana]

"Now children, it is time for you to decide what kind of cats you are going to be.

Tell us, tell us, what kinds of cats there are!"

I love the way the author describes cats as killing billions of "mammals". This is like those British papers describing perps as "Asian", which could mean anything from Singapore to Siberia to India to Afghanistan.

These furry friends dispatch mice, rats, voles, shrews, ground squirrels ... mostly vermin. Few dogs, no sheep, cows, pigs, bears, whales, dolphins, antelopes.

I wonder if these folks are so worried about predators mind wolves killing so many sheep, gazelles, deer, etc?

[Slings and Arrows]

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[TurboZamboni]

24 birds killed by oil company work in North Dakota.
$15k fine per birds-Windmills kill bald eagles, nobody cares

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/50568