I strongly believe that house cats should be spayed/neutered and kept inside.
I like cats.
But when I moved out to our rural property 24 years ago I found out that regular house cats are a plague on nature. I never understood that fact until I saw it first hand. KEEP YOUR CAT INSIDE, if it is a "barn cat" then make sure it is spayed/neutered.
House cats kill 1 BILLION birds per year. They have caused the extinction of 33 bird species in the US alone.
Interesting article address this issue and now states what I have believed to be true for the past couple of decades. If I recall correctly, the State of Wisconsin was encouraging the shooting of wild cats by hunters during deer season a few years ago because the formerly domesticated, but now wild, cats decimated the song bird population.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cats-invasive-species-in-your-backyard-cbsn-originals/
I like cats.
But when I moved out to our rural property 24 years ago I found out that regular house cats are a plague on nature. I never understood that fact until I saw it first hand. KEEP YOUR CAT INSIDE, if it is a "barn cat" then make sure it is spayed/neutered.
House cats kill 1 BILLION birds per year. They have caused the extinction of 33 bird species in the US alone.
Interesting article address this issue and now states what I have believed to be true for the past couple of decades. If I recall correctly, the State of Wisconsin was encouraging the shooting of wild cats by hunters during deer season a few years ago because the formerly domesticated, but now wild, cats decimated the song bird population.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cats-invasive-species-in-your-backyard-cbsn-originals/