One of the world’s worst invasive species? The domestic cat.
In the UK, they kill several hundred million animals a year…
In the UK, they kill several hundred million animals a year…
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One of the world’s worst invasive species? The domestic HUMAN.
In the UK, they kill several hundred million animals a year…
2019: 02
2023: 16
https://truthlegal.com/dog-bites-and-attacks-what-are-the-dangers-in-2024/
The dog owners act like parents of violent kids
It all boils my piss but one of my 'pet hates' is;
"You can walk off the pavement onto the road because me and my dogs are walking here!"
I haven't let any of our cats outside in years, they don't want to go outside either.
It's called being institutionised.
Letting cats out is in fact what's plain cruel. Thems the facts, feel free to prove me wrong.
* We had 7 cats when I was younger. Five lived to 18+
* We had two cats from 2005. Both lived to 15+
The absolute horseshit people talk
It's horeshit if you don't know why the difference matters.
My great-Nana lived to 113 even though she smoked 40-a-day all of her life. So smoking isn't unhealthy?
Don't play the fuckwit mate.
British Trust for Ornithology report last year stated almost half of UK bird species are in decline.
These include sparrows, starlings and greenfinches.
Greenfinch declines are very specifically linked to disease, particularly trichomoniasis, and related to garden feeding. There is no evidence of increased predation.
Not what is making them decline.
They aren’t stable.
We had hundreds in our garden 15 years ago and then the neighbour pulled up his front hedges and within a year they were gone. That wasn't cats, it was habitat.
Again, human activity seems to be the main factor..
Humans kill animals, destroy the environment and the planet planet!
However, this needs to be treated with caution because most cats do not starve as their prey decrease because they have humans feeding them.
You seem to be confusing cats with bicycles.
No deffo not I love cats.
HUMANS.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/22/light-pollution-insect-apocalypse
It’s a shame for the birds, but rodents need to be controlled in urban areas and cats are one of the best ways of doing that.
The create these horrible, homogeneous landscapes, devoid of anything that the gardener describes as a "weed"; and the use pesticides to remove any competition or threat to any of the plants lucky enough to get desired
But nobody does anything about that because of power, money, religion & tribal supremacy
If the population was halved the number of pets would halve & so the number of predations
It's human nos that need controlling
Population doesn't "need" controlling, whatever that would mean. First worlders need to use less resources, something far more painful to confront for us.
I was looking at a balance cos it is very unlikely that the ratios will change
So reduce it to 500m 3.65b & the number of cats & dogs as pets would also halve.
It is simply the number of people that is the problem.
It seems you are talking about killing billions of people very casually.
You cannot control over consumption without redistribution else the economies as constructed would collapse. This would not solve the problem.
The issue is too many people.
How that is resolved acceptably I know not.
Wealth redistribution is required anyway. The economies as constructed currently will inevitably collapse under their own contradictions if left as is anyway.
Nor did I say that owners couldn't opt out if they were registered as breeders.
Sponsored neutering would be far more useful than a compulsory scheme.
https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/07/how-many-birds-killed-by-skyscrapers-american-cities-report
I do not own the cats who allow me staff accommodation in their home...
Yeah, cats, yeah, of course they're the problem.
Cats not mentioned on this though.
https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/issues-facing-birds
Billions of birds killed by tall buildings v how many birds with a habitat in them because there's nowhere else to go? Surely a natural habitat be better?
Anyone who has a cat should have it neutered/spayed and keep it well fed but to restrict it to a house is cruel. If you want to do that, get a dog or a guinea pig :)
1. Approx 777 species have gone extinct since records began and about 63 of those are thought due to domestic cats. Yes domestic cats kill but the vast majority of those species killers are feral after being abandoned by humans (or escaped from) and not having been neutered.
We also need direct compensation for people who spend their weekends clearing their neighbours' cat poop from their garden before it gets all over their children. If a pet can't be trained to do its business at home, don't have a pet.
It's time that responsible pet ownership was incentivised in some way.
They also have an obsession with removing all rats, in NZ.
Also..
https://www.amazon.co.uk/200x28cm-Plastic-Repellent-Deterrent-U-shaped/dp/B0BYZ44JP3/ref=sr_1_5?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.qNmYC_6VWFdBWz7s_ahLvMEvp4TAELTCv5dhxyTpwk5uSzTHhRBKU5znjZaKSUzGI-NEWUtPWyBwtTNfHq6MrPs4DaCmKxW0sHVwLHHmz3RHet-Z2WnIVXaLTyhrD0qewdQVsJDvoz2cQ2TLn4l0SNWH45WhieM31cdSk6QgiL8ECJGGYEMz0ujDMOd23xQ1u-RFEm3d3YYS7K-KwY2S7oM0YHXJ6kGW6PrbLMEX510vQyGaeS-ZtYw-YYJNp5s7gHWCxbNNJ0RKFxzxoXj8V_1Ijf1WESz1iPIeXejXy6A.KmVBbQfQ-zyYCEVwK504ZKrcYeKGdEFNKm6pjWEDlTw&dib_tag=se&keywords=cat+spikes&qid=1733743002&sr=8-5
https://www.birdscanada.org/you-can-help/keep-cats-from-roaming-outside