ext_370466 ([identity profile] sandwichwarrior.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] talkpolitics2011-07-29 01:48 pm
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Friday Fun: Apocalypse Meow

And here we've been obsessing over carbon footprints and plastic bags when when the true enemy of the enviroment was right under our noses.

Domestic cats, officially considered an invasive species, kill at least a hundred million birds in the US every year—dwarfing the number killed by wind turbines. They’re also responsible for at least 33 avian extinctions worldwide. A recent Smithsonian Institution study found that cats caused 79 percent of deaths of juvenile catbirds in the suburbs of Washington, DC. Bad news, since birds are key to protecting ecosystems from the stresses of climate change—a 2010 study found that they save plants from marauding insects that proliferate as the world warms.

Now as this is a "Fun" thread I'll leave the parsing of logical flaws, and general sillyness that is Mother Jones to the audience but it does confirm something I have always suspected, that "Crazy Cat Ladies" are Enemies of Man-kind.

[identity profile] brockulfsen.livejournal.com 2011-07-29 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
In Australia they now have to be microchipped in most areas and there's a move to restrict them to the owners property. Many local government bodies will lend/rent cat traps and animal control will come and process any you catch. No chip, quick trip to the gas chamber.


Nasty creepy things cats.

[identity profile] anfalicious.livejournal.com 2011-07-30 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
there's a move to restrict them to the owners property

Have you got any more info on this? This would be awesome.