This article reads like a hit propaganda piece to eradicate cats that paints the feline as the villain. Australia has been on cat-killing binge lately, and wri

This article reads like a hit propaganda piece to eradicate cats that paints the feline as the villain. Australia has been on cat-killing binge lately, and writing like that aims to justify it.[1] In reality, the undisputed #1 threat to all wildlife is human activity — in particular, loss of habitat due to construction. Now, wildlife activists have reasons to be pissed. But it's way easier to kill a million cats (yes, literally) than to maybe rethink construction. So guess which is done. This also applies to Bay Area, where Google forced a volunteer-run TNR program, gCat rescue, to shut down, ostensibly to help burrowing owls[2]. #1 reason for owls' decline? Loss of habitat.[3] Google's next step? Massive construction.[4] And while the volunteer-run gCat was criticized in NYT as a threat to the owls, it's all crickets when it comes to construction. [1]https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/magazine/australia-cat-killing.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/magazine/australia-cat-ki... [2]https://www.paloaltohumane.org/facebook/tell-the-mountain-view-city-council-not-to-stop-trap-neuter-return-on-google03/ https://www.paloaltohumane.org/facebook/tell-the-mountain-vi... Also, don't ask me how stopping neutering cats helps the birds. [3]http://burrowingowlconservation.org/burrowing_owl_facts/ http://burrowingowlconservation.org/burrowing_owl_facts/ [4]https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/06/google-affordable-housing-california-real-estate-development/591991/ https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/06/google-affordable-hou...