A lot has been written by cat haters of the biased press, about the decline of songbirds and small wildlife, they love to blame it on cats.
A lot has been written too by cat lovers defending them.
This time I want to look at it from another angle and ask those who blame cats, why when cats have been around thousands of years, are they suddenly being blamed for the growing rate of birds and small wildlife dying out?
Surely if that was the case, they would have been wiped out long ago by cats, not steadily declining as they are now, especially as there are more indoor cats as time goes on and it becomes more unsafe for them outdoors..
Could it be that the cat haters just won’t admit this decline is happening because of the progress of human beings?
Ask those people why they won’t accept that the loss of habitat and the pesticides used and the pollution of the air the birds and animals breathe is to blame…..
They have no answer.
Here’s something else too, butterflies, moths,crane flies, ladybirds etc are becoming less all the time, no one can blame the decline of them on cats, can they!
Also bees are dying out too, now we all know cats don’t kill bees, surely even cat haters have to agree on that!
What about the people who think starving abandoned or feral cats have no right to kill birds the poor creatures need to eat to survive?
Do those people think sitting down to eat roast chicken or turkey born to be killed to feed people who don’t need to eat poultry to survive, is right!
I suppose they justify themselves that they are top of the food chain, well lucky them to be born as human beings, cats don’t choose to be born as cats and should never be blamed for following the instincts they were born with.
Do those cat haters who profess to care about birds approve of birds being blasted from the sky for ‘sport’ by hunters?
If so, what hypocrites they are!
Cats kill a miniscule number of birds in comparison to the amount killed directly or indirectly by people.
They also kill a miniscule number of small wild life in comparison to the amount killed by speeding uncaring motorists.
It’s time the cat haters started looking to themselves and thinking what they can do to help the environment, because one day it will be too late, they and not cats will have caused the extinction of countless species of birds and animals.
Jozef thoroughly enjoys his life, indoors and outdoors too, that’s for sure 🙂
Nice picture. I love to see cats that are allowed to express themselves. It has to make them happier.
So it’s OK to catch mice is it? You humans would be over run with them if it wasn’t for us cats, so no one should complain if we catch an occasional bird.
That is an excellent point too, Marc. Scientists tend to follow the status quo and when they don’t history shows us that they are vilified and eventually science comes around to new ideas.
It is about work and being accepted by the scientific community. Achieving a status. The truth can take a back seat.
Galileo was called a heretic because he stated that the earth moved rather than being stationary.
I think the people in these positions of power to say such things don’t really care – they just care about keeping their jobs and following the status quo. I’m sure if a scientist showed up and challenged the general thinking they wouldn’t get very far would they. Expertize and academic isolation sucks because it cant be objective if humans are in control of it.
Well allellulia at last scientists are realising they can’t just assume the cause of the loss of bees because they can’t blame cats for it for once and surely they will now connect the loss of bees with the loss of birds and wild life and flying insects and look further than cats.
What’s the betting though that they won’t write articles and withdraw their allegations about cats!