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["Jackie Jameson" <jacqueline.jameson@gmail.com>]

Go to www.audubon.org  and do a search for cats.  You'll find all sorts or research, information and campaigns addressing this serious issue for bird conservation.

Jackie

On 2/14/07, road's end farm <organic101@linkny.com> wrote:

On Feb 14, 2007, at 10:23 AM, Brungardt, Sam wrote:

> I find it difficult to accept your view that your cats don't do much
> harm to birds; it's been well establishedby studies both here in the
> USA and Britain that cats allowed to roam outdoors kill a lot of
> birds, both adult and juvenile. -- Sam Brungardt, St. Paul, Minn.
>

Some cats do. Some cats don't. I very much doubt that the studies
focused on the habits and hunting abilities of individual cats. I think
the person you're answering was referring to the hunting habits of her
particular cats:

> ----[partial quote]-----
>
>
> I would warn you that not all cats chase squirrels. Mine have
> elminated mice, rats, moles, tree shrews, rabbits. The squirrels,
> raccoons, and possums remain. They don't do much to the birds,

Many areas with a lot of free-roaming cats no longer have most of the
original predators who preyed on birds in that area. I don't know if
anyone has ever done studies correcting for this factor, to try to
determine whether the bird mortality rate from cats is higher than a
natural background rate with no cats, but with other bird predators in
the area.


--Rivka
Finger Lakes NY; zone 5 mostly
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