A serious suggestion from NYT regarding ‘soft and deadly’ cats
A story about the common cat being “cold-blooded killers” made its way around the Internet yesterday (including at TheBlaze). It centered on a Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute study that said domesticated cats kill up to 21 billion small mammals every year.
Treating the study as if it highlighted a fundamental flaw in our social fabric, and not as if it were just an interesting story, the New York Times was moved to offer a recommendation.
From an editorial this morning titled “soft and deadly”:
[C]at owners could help by treating their cats more like dogs. After all, it is a rare dog owner who lets a pet loose to roam the neighborhood.
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Owt_Raged
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 11:42amCan you imagine how overrun with mice, rats and starlings urban neighborhoods would be without cats?
Not to mention the crop damage that is prevented every year by their rural counterparts.
Nature has a balance, when you mess with part of it, the rest gets messed up. Although my cats live only indoors, cats are a predator, they are designed to keep other species in check.
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BetterNTexas
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 10:48amI have a cat. I let her “roam free” for a couple of hours a day, which in her case means she fiercely guards her territory which includes three houses. I am proud to say that she is a “killing machine.” My neighborhood, you see, has rats. My cat is a great mouser. Why on earth would I keep her indoors when she is perfectly happy to take out as much of the local rat population as she can?
I love that the study calls the 21 billion “birds and small mammals.” “Small mammals” is code word for mice and rats for the most part. They are disease carrying creatures that breed every 5 seconds. It’s not like there’s a shortage of them or ever will be. They are the reason we need cats–not as pets but as pest control. It’s their intended purpose in the natural order of things.
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JohnB2011
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 10:22amGreat show with David Barton on Executive Orders. I hope you will do a similar thorough program on the devastating effects of big eastern liberal state crossover voting in the Republican primaries before the 2016 election.
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