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The domestic cat is a top predator. Should we live with them?

Cats would be better pets if they weren’t great predators

Many cat owners might say that their domestic cat companion is an excellent pet. I’m going to say something which is almost heretical and something which sounds anti-cat as if said by a cat hater. But I’m not; I am a cat lover and a realist. And with that character trait, I have to state …

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Cat catches a mouse and brings it into the home and causes negative consequences for the owner

12 bad things that can happen when your cat brings in a mouse

Last night my cat brought in a mouse. And a lot of things happened which were negative to my life and one thing that was negative to his as it happens. I’ll list them here. There you have a dozen negatives impacting my life just because I live with a top line predator who loves …

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Kangaroo Island dunnart and stray cat

Independent newspaper’s BIASED headline about the feral cat threat to the Kangaroo Island dunnart

NEWS AND COMMENT-KANGAROO ISLAND, AUSTRALIA: The headline on the online version of the Independent newspaper is: “Tiny marsupial that survived wildfires now under threat by feral cats”. The headline is based upon research from the University of Adelaide in Australia. I am unable to read that research because I don’t have access to it and …

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Archipelagos are a cluster of islands and the species living there are vulnerable to introduced species like rats and cats

Rats or cats? Which is the worst for killing island species?

Every scientific paper that you read regarding the extinction of native species on small islands in archipelagoes always refer to cats and rats as the top two culprits. One scientific study starts, “Invasive rats are one of the world’s most successful animal groups that cause native species extinctions and ecosystem change, particularly on islands”. And …

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Make Australia’s native species more cat savvy rather than try and kill all the cats

You know about the attempt by the Aussie authorities to try and exterminate the entire feral cat population of that continent. They don’t know how many cats there are (about 6m) but they want rid of all of them and they don’t mind how it is done. Inhumanely is fine by them. But it is …

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Australian drought forces feral cat to scavenge on a 30 kg kangaroo

A PhD student, Emma Spencer, from the University of Sydney was surprised to see in her camera trap video a ginger tabby feral cat scavenging on the carcass of a 30 kg kangaroo who’d died in the desert under harsh drought conditions. The conditions had forced this cat and others to scavenge which is not …

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Stray cat in Washington DC caught in camera trap for nee study

Great. Bird lovers work with cat lovers to get accurate data on feral cats preying on birds

For years they have been at each other’s throats arguing about how many birds cats kill annually. Bird lovers say 4 billion birds are killed by cats each year in the USA, many of which are native species. Cat lovers like me say that the numbers are estimates based on local studies and extrapolated. Therefore …

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Cat stalking bird Galveston

Humane Society to try oral contraceptives on feral cats on Galveston Island

The Galveston County Daily News reports that the Galveston Island Humane Society is thinking about trying an oral contraceptive on feral cats on the island in conjunction with standard TNR programs. Jim Stevenson – world’s most notorious cat website troll It’s very interesting to note that on this island lives the most famous cat website …

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Pintupi hunter and dead feral cat

Contextualizing the predation of reptiles by cats in Australia

A recent study on how many reptiles are killed by cats in Australia concluded that 649 million reptiles are killed annually by both domestic cats and feral cats on the continent. The news media headlines translate this to cats killing almost 2 million lizards a day in Australia and even causing the extinction of some …

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Note: sources for news articles are carefully selected but the news is often not independently verified.
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