What affects us affects cats
Domestic cats much prefer mice to birds no matter what source of information you refer to (including personal obesrvations by the cat owning public). In order to assess what, at a fundamental level, domestic cats prefer as prey animals you have to go back to their wild ancestor which is the African-Asian wildcat, otherwise …
It’s the bird nest building season (Feb-Aug) and I have just learned that domestic cats can contribute to the welfare of birds which is nice to know considering that ornithologists are annoyed about cats attacking and killing birds. A lady writing to the East Bay Times says that she brushes her cats on a …
I believe that this display is in a Dutch museum: the Natural History Museum Rotterdam. It is unpleasant. It also over-simplifies the issues of domestic cat predation and as a result misleads. All-in-all not a clever display. The creators of this display probably had the intention of summarising the predation of birds by domestic …
A couple of Dutch academics, Arie Trouwborst and Han Somsen – the former is an associate professor and the latter a full professor – state that allowing cats to roam outside without supervision by their owner or another person is illegal under European rules for nature protection. That is a dramatic statement. And I …
The National Geographic article originally published in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine with the headline, “To save birds, should be kill off cats?” is poor for a couple of reasons even though it does try and strike a balance. I object, right away, to the phrase “kill off”. This phrase, in …
She also believes that cats are flippant, arrogant and a bit too proud. And you can’t train them. Oh, and she does not like hairless cats. These are the reasons why she doesn’t like cats. So let’s have a discussion about them. Mean Meanness is a lack of generosity or miserliness. How can a …
I think you can break the question down into two separate questions. In my experience, cat owners and people in general are far more concerned about domestic cats preying on birds than they are on mammals such as mice and voles or reptiles and insects. If the question is how can you stop my …
Tony Duckett, the conservation officer for Royal Parks in London, who is in charge of Regent Park’s rare birds, says that pet cats in the UK should not be allowed to roam freely because they kill 500,000 birds weekly. In Britain we say that the UK follows the USA on cultural trends so perhaps …
