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26 a year for an outdoor cat honestly seems low to me… that’s 1 every other week. I had one cat that I started keeping inside because it was approaching one per
by micromacrofoot 5y ago
26 a year for an outdoor cat honestly seems low to me… that’s 1 every other week. I had one cat that I started keeping inside because it was approaching one per day.
Without us they’d be doing this for sustenance, so in theory multiple kills a day.
- pirate787 5y agoAgree, we have an indoor/outdoor cat, he's fixed and usually has a bell collar on, and he still kills more than 26 birds and mice a year.
- damnedspot 5y agoWorse than for sustenance: I've read that about 2/3 of animals cats kill aren't eaten. They're doing it for sport...
- cheese_goddess 5y agoYes, but cats and birds have existed together for, I don't know, millions of years? Without cats causing a mass extinction of birds. And why is that?
- micromacrofoot 5y agothe increase of cats as pets seems like a possible factor, one rough estimate says the US has 3X more housecats than it did in 1970... so it certainly seems possible that we've thrown off a more natural equilibrium https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Growth-of-the-house-cat-population-in-the-United-States-over-time-Population-estimates_fig1_41101366 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Growth-of-the-house-cat-...