I see there are a lot of people that take care of ferals and get tired of hearing all the reasons they should be killed, not TNR'd. My answer is always "Even if they do kill a lot of birds, TNR is the way to reduce the population so TNR is the best way to save the birds." I didn't know that about glass windows. That's very interesting. I totally advocate keeping your cats indoors though because I live in a town outside of Atlanta but it's a busy small town and I've lost so many ferals to coyotes. Some to cars, but most to coyotes or dogs.
“I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn’t….the pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.” – Mark Twain > Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:03:06 -0400 > From: ti...@mindspring.com > To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Keep Cats Indoors > > Actually, the leading killers are glass windows...particularly taller > structures &.car winfshields. But cats are the only bird predators in urban > aareas, so they of course would be the largest killer of birds. There are > other natural predators in rural areas...including other birds like owls, > hawks, etc > > Sent from my Samsung Epic™ 4G > > Bonnie Hogue <ho...@sonic.net> wrote: > > >In the newspaper today: > > > >House cats are the #1 predator of wild birds. The American Bird Conservancy > >estimates up to 500 million birds per year are killed by cats. About 400,000 > >are killed yearly by wind turbines (less than 20% of the number killed by > >cats). So now we have another reason to keep our cats indoors -- not only > >for their own health and safety, but for that of our BIRD population! > >Save the cats and the birds: Keep Your Cat Indoors! > >~Bonnie > >_______________________________________________ > >Felvtalk mailing list > >Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > >http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
