• UserFlairOptional@lemmynsfw.com
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      1 year ago

      Cats survived before us by hunting small mammals and small birds, and they are very effective at getting fed.

      The motivation at the core of naming owners of outdoor cats as irresponsible is a sharp decline in songbird populations in direct proportion to the increase in outdoor cat population.

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        Cats survived before us by hunting small mammals and small birds, and they are very effective at getting fed.

        And, conversely, the prey evolved to avoid cats. So it is only a problem if you take cats to a place that historically did not have them. In fact, removing a predator from an ecosystem it used to keep under check can be just as devastating as introducing a foreign species.

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      The danger isn’t to the cats, it’s to everything else. Ecologically speaking, cats are an invasive apex predator. They absolutely wreak havoc on local bird populations.