What affects us affects cats
This is a follow-up to an earlier page about the USFWS demonising feral cats. My thanks to Rick Hall, WA Alliance for Humane Legislation for getting the letter upon which this article is based. In a letter from Catherine T Phillips PhD, an Acting Project Leader at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), to …
USFWS (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) has repeatedly covertly promoted the killing of cats by allowing its employees to demonise free-roaming and feral cats in sponsored conferences and recently in writing to policymakers in Escambia County, Florida. The image below is from a USFWS presentation showing the cat’s voracious appetite for killing wildlife. The letter …
The figures are based on a collation of many studies. It is dangerous to make bold statements about the impact of roaming domestic cats on wildlife. There are many articles on the subject, a high proportion of which are frankly misleading due to bias and “estimations” and “extrapolations”. All rather pointless to be honest. …
The cat haters should shut up. They love to bleat on about killer domestic cats. How they kill billions of birds, blah blah blah, yaddah….and how they poison people with diseases…boring. Woody shut up now. As we on PoC have always said, with great common sense, the human is one of the planet’s top …
People who criticise the cat for preying on small mammals and birds should be less vocal and outspoken and reconsider. For 99% of the entire time of the cat’s domestication which began around 9,500 years ago we wanted our cat to prey on small mammals which nearly always included rodents. This was the main …
People who don’t like cats criticise the species for being nasty and mean because they play with their prey, which is usually a mouse. Harrison Weir, the founder of the cat fancy, calls this “The Cat as a Tormentor”. He quotes Shakespeare, in his poem “The Rape of Lucrece”, saying: “Yet foul night-waking cat, …
Newspapers should be more responsible when they cite research studies. We must not automatically trust the work of scientists and PhD students. Some are biased. I also sense that there is an underlying conspiracy by bird lovers against the domestic cat – a sort of hidden agenda – and a general hatred for the …
This is quite a difficult subject; how domestic cats affect the population sizes of wildlife. We know that domestic cats that are allowed outside can and sometimes do attack and catch small animals. These are mammals and birds usually. A lot of people who don’t like cats tend to produce data that more or …
