Should City Keep Killing Cats?
They feast on endangered birds, and the city currently kills hundreds. Now, it might neuter them instead.
Cats are evil. At least, that is, according to a story that appeared on Slate.com last week. Cats are a globally invasive species. They kill millions of birds each year in Wisconsin alone. Cats feast on endangered North American ground-nesting birds such as the California clapper rail, least tern, and piping plover, any one of which is cuter than a laundry basket full of kittens. A study in the D.C. area a few years ago showed that in some neighborhoods (neighborhoods in which a lot of people who really ought to know better let their beasts roam free), outdoor cats eat basically all juvenile birds as soon as they fledge. To top it off, feral, and they're hard to adopt because they tend to fear and attack humans To deal with the problem…
Mable Peterson
7:50 pm on Wednesday, January 30, 2013
How about the birds that kill and eat other birds??? Let nature do what nature does. more ›