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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
Right away we have to say that there is no evidence that this black feral cat killed the Shy Albatross chick. What annoys me slightly is that the video has been published on a bird website (birdguides.com) with, it seems … Continue reading →
I for one have been fighting this battle for more than a decade. The sharp decline in bird species populations is mainly due to human behaviour. Yes, there are other factors, one of which is predation by outdoor cats but…it … Continue reading →
The data below – presented in a table – is from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. I think it needs publishing here and I hope U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service allow me to publish it verbatim on my website. … Continue reading →
Thanks to social media, we are told that several police officers in Newark, California rushed out of a meeting to save the lives of some ducklings and their mom from a feral cat in a parking lot. The Newark Police … Continue reading →
Cats – domestic, stray and, at the end of the day, feral – caused the extinction of the Stephens Island Wren, a small, flightless bird. It took under two years. Yes, cats made this bird extinct in around 20 months. … Continue reading →
Here are two interesting instances when smart birds – in these cases crows and a woodpecker – took revenge on cats. The smart birds are part of the crow family (corvids) which includes . The woodpecker is part of the … Continue reading →
