2008/06/22

Your Cat and Wild Birds


There are a lot of good reasons for *not* letting your new
cat become an outside cat and I mention most of them in my new
ebook "Your New Cat's First 24 Hours".

But one very important reason that I left out was the fact that
cats are death on birds.

Yes, this is a fact that cat owners don't like to face, but
a cat is a predator that doesn't distinguish between mice and
birds when it comes to her prey.

It's estimated that there are about 40 million cats in the
United States free to roam outside, and 20 to 30 percent of
the kills they make are birds.

When you figure that a single outdoor cat will kill up to 200
birds and mammals every year, this can add up to over a billion
birds killed by outdoor cats!

Many cat owners think that if they keep their cat well fed she
won't feel the need to kill, but they are not taking into
account that a cat does not kill out of hunger, but because
she is an instinctual predator. A well fed cat *will* kill birds.

So, do Mother Nature and her wonderful birds a
favor.

By John Young

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