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You said it yourself - domestic vs unowned. People aren’t counting unowned cats en masse, and domestication is the root cause of those feral cats. Also, their
by tonyhb 3y ago
You said it yourself - domestic vs unowned. People aren’t counting unowned cats en masse, and domestication is the root cause of those feral cats. Also, their range is lower bound 3* your numbers, so there’s no need to cherry pick the highest end of all ranges here.
Whether they’re right or not, it’s plausible and probable that cats are a problem. Biggest problem? Who knows
- vasco 3y ago> Whether they’re right or not, it’s plausible and probable that cats are a problem. It's not plausible to me that cats kill 10-30 other animals per day if they go outside.
- tonyhb 3y agoWith 60m cats and a mid range 15b animals killed, that’s 250 deaths per cat a year, less than one a day. According to the study. Idk where you’re getting your numbers from dude but it’s not TFA. You’re blowing things out of proportion by several orders of magnitude. Is it plausible that they’re a problem by killing some number of animals?