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[tradosaurus]

Cats kill well over one billion (!) birds annually in the US. If you don't care... you don't care - and I get their anti-rodent utility.

When we moved her 30+ years ago there were lots of quail. Entertaining as **** watching them march single-file along the porch rail, or herding 20 fluff-balls through the field. Then neighbors arrived with six cats. Haven't seen or heard a quail in 20 years

Z.

I dispute that 1 billion number. No way anyone can figure that out.
However if the neighbors moved in with a dog or two would the results have been the same?
I lived in a small neighborhood before moving to the country and one neighbor poisoned on of our cats because it kept getting on their cars and leaving cat prints. I get that too.
I'm just glad cats are free. :laughing:

 

[lilranch2001]

Do you mean that some trustworthy individual did NOT go out and count each of those billions of birds???

 

[Travelover]

Do you mean that some trustworthy individual did NOT go out and count each of those billions of birds???

Yea! Let's see their individual death certificates.

 

[zoltanthegypsy]

I dispute that 1 billion number. No way anyone can figure that out.
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There were plenty of dogs running loose in the area when we moved in. Believe whatever floats your boat - all the same to me.

The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States | Nature Communications

Z.

 

[JWR]

I dispute that 1 billion number. No way anyone can figure that out.

Absolutely correct tradosaurus -- "well over one billion" birds killed by cats per year is absurdly without any foundation and impossible for anyone to prove, disprove, or verify. It really does not matter what zoltanthegypsy's source was, it is simply nonsense as seen by any thinking person. While I am preaching, the internet is so full of falsehoods and made up data I find it refreshing that we on TBN tend to be a lot less like that.

By the way, if you want to waste some rainy day time, go to the reference listed as zoltanthegypsy's source. What a crock of nonsense ! Imagine a PhD thesis including high level statistician math methods (with which I am very familiar) all applied to pure speculative data so flimsy it is just silly. Read some of the comments after the article at that referenced website. Good for laughs.

 

[lilranch2001]

lman lives in northern Indiana, and it is the duck capital of the world.

He can prolly get you a deal on a replacement