You're right, I got the scale wrong, my bad. I'll blame the late hour ;) It's still too high for pet cats (>1 mammal killed a week supposedly based on the aver

You're right, I got the scale wrong, my bad. I'll blame the late hour ;) It's still too high for pet cats (>1 mammal killed a week supposedly based on the average estimate and the same overestimation of 200 million cats, indoor included) but might make more sense if you consider that ferals have a disproportionate impact. I know people want an easy solution that absolves them from blame but it certainly doesn't seem to justify regurgitating this paper ad nauseam and demonizing people letting their pets outside. Overall I doubt that cats move the needle outside of urban areas with high feral cat populations that area already poor habitats for birds.