What affects us affects cats
This is another attempt, in a study, to discover the impact that the indoor/outdoor domestic cat has on wildlife because of the cat’s natural tendency to prey on mammals and other creatures e.g insects. It is interesting and I believe cat lovers and cat advocates need to address all issues that relate to the …
Some people believe that people who let their domestic cat loose outside in the natural environment to hunt and wander are placing more value on the life and the needs of their cat than on the life of the prey that the cat kills. It is an argument that is about the relative importance …
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 …
Once again a newspaper has misreported a study on cat predation that is misleading in itself. It is double trouble and unfair on the domestic cat. I have to at least report this, briefly. This time it is the Times newspaper of June 29th 2013. The article was written by Toom Whipple and Oliver …
I argue that the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center has a policy of denigrating and maligning the domestic and feral cat to serve its own ends. I say an ornithologist should not be studying and writing reports on cat predation but unfortunately this is exactly what has happened at the highest level in the United …
It is impossible to accurately assess the extent of domestic cat predation on wildlife. The latest high profile attempt in a study in the UK supports that statement. The latest UK cat predation study is weak, in my opinion. Yet the findings of the study are reported on major newspaper websites as providing definitive …
by Michael Photo copyright Stockxpert Some time ago I wrote a short article on the subject of false or unsubstantiated statements made by individuals who claimed that the domestic cat and feral cat were decimating the birds of Great Britain (or any other countries for that matter). There is a large group of people …
