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What’s wrong with biocontrol using cats?
by fmajid 5y ago
What’s wrong with biocontrol using cats?
- dredmorbius 5y agoWhat do cats eat when there are no more rats?
- girvo 5y agoWell feral cats are absolutely horrible for native wildlife, as they don’t just kill the animals you want them to.
- k_sze 5y agoI wonder if we can breed, via artificial selection, cats that only hunt rats.
- throaway46546 5y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuiK7jcC1fY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuiK7jcC1fY
- tiagod 5y agoCats aren't effective at controlling rat populations, and they kill many birds and small animals that already have a hard time surviving in reasonable numbers. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/12/science/cats-v-rats-in-new-york-the-rats-win.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/12/science/cats-v-rats-in-ne...
- gambiting 5y agoYou want terriers for killing rats, they are absolutely fantastic at it and will kill a stupid number of them quickly since they treat it like sport.
- FridayoLeary 5y agoYou can see with your own eyes in Israel that this doesn't really work. Though i wonder how many more rats there would be without them. Similar in UK with the foxes.