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try not to re-litigate this, but if you think anonymously threatening to murder someone else’s animal is cool and fine, you can fuck off
Further down in the thread lots of people are agreeing that they would shoot the cat :ohnoes:
Are cats killing that many birds?
This article says they’re “likely the single greatest source of anthropogenic mortality for US birds and mammals” (which I personally doubt, I’d say modern agricultural practices is much higher, but still, it shows it’s significant). Yet at the same time the same article also says the majority comes from un-owned cats, not pets.
the neighbor put little bells on all the cats so they can’t sneak up on shit anymore
It works, but only decreases about 41% of killings (the little bastards learn to hunt by silencing the bell, lowering their jaw to stop it tingling).
We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.3–4.0 billion birds and 6.3–22.3 billion mammals annually.
What in the ever loving fuck??? Where did they get these numbers? I didn’t read the whole paper but I couldn’t find it scanning.
Yeah, it’s a highly debated estimate. To be honest part of it I think is the desire to attribute the massive collapse of birds population to another cause than the main one: our modern agricultural practices killing insects in tremendous amounts, depleting their food source (see this article or this one for example). I still think outdoors cats kill a significant amount of a depressingly decreasing population of many species, so keeping them indoors can only help.
