Cats are not only not native--they are literally subsidized killers. When
people maintain their populations artifically, by protecting them, providing
veterinary services, and providing supplemental food, cats are maintained at
unnatural and unsustainable levels. A couple of decades ago when I was
walking my son to kindergarten on a cold October morning, we came upon well
over a dozen dead warblers on the sidewalk--all apparently killed by a
single cat during a big migration fallout. I live under Hawk Ridge, and know
that migratory raptors take some of my backyard birds. But that's a natural
phenomenon, not an obscene waste.
I don't know how this issue relates in any way to politics.
--
Laura Erickson
For the love, understanding, and protection of birds
There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of birds. There
is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature--the
assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.
--Rachel Carson
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