Lolounette wrote:The Natural History Museum and The LPO are conducting research on the impact of the domestic cat on biodiversity, I invite interested cat owners to register for this participatory survey here
this study follows another one which took place 25 years ago in England and whose results on the bird population were quite alarming (see here for those who speak English)
Mice, voles, shrews, lizards and other birds are big consumers of insects, so they are also useful to the gardener. The English study was particularly alarmed by the explosion of the feline population and invited cat owners to equip them with a bell ...
I love cats and far from me the desire to create a controversy: I wait for the results of the study to know exactly what it returns, so do not hesitate to register ...
Regarding the mole rats their biggest natural predator is the fox which is alas exterminated everywhere because classified as harmful In the Puy-de-Dôme, for example, a campaign to exterminate the taupier rat is under way at great expense, and at the same time the beaten foxes continue. Relentless logic!
Don't psychotize cats
As said above, wild cats are like all wild animals ... they go to ease ...
So first the bowls of restaurants from the heart of ad hoc associations
Then the cat granny bowls or our trash cans
Then the rodents
And FINALLY the birds last, because it is the most complicated to catch.
In addition when they manage to catch them, it is in priority individuals injured, diminished, fallen from the nest ... etc
Lizards only interest domestic cats which distracts them but rarely savages who know perfectly well that it is not edible and therefore that it is useless to spend energy to capture them for nothing ...
Finally the best way to preserve the small percentage remaining of catching birds in good shape is to .... do what I described above ...
Create a habitat for them in a quiet place to fix them which prevents them from wandering, feeding them ... AND ... sterilizing them all.
Furthermore, it is not because I love cats that I am against violent elimination in the event of overcrowding, which is not good for anyone and especially not for cats.