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Cats killing billions of animals in the US
BBC News, by Rebecca Morelle
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Posted By:LittleHoodedMonk, 1/29/2013 1:35:45 PM
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| Cats are one of the top threats to US wildlife, killing billions of animals each year, a study suggests. The authors estimate they are responsible for the deaths of between 1.4 and 3.7 billion birds and 6.9-20.7 billion mammals annually. Writing in Nature Communications, the scientists said stray and feral cats were the worst offenders. However, they added that pet cats also played a role and that owners should do more to reduce their impact. The authors concluded that more animals are dying at the claws of cats in the United States than in road accidents, collisions with buildings or poisonings.
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Comments: The annual migration of woman to fit into that "Cat Woman" outfit at Halloween takes a toll on those of US approaching retirement age. [I guess it beats a heart attack during an earthquake].
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
woodenleg, 1/29/2013 1:38:31 PM (No. 9146660)
Watch for cat population control and licensing......gotta go get a cat license
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Zarin, 1/29/2013 1:40:14 PM (No. 9146664)
Yes, my cats have helped kill millions of mice, voles, rats, pesky squirrels, rabbits, chipmunks, water bugs & roaches and non-native house sparrows & starlings.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Scottyboy, 1/29/2013 1:40:54 PM (No. 9146667)
Buy them all one way tickets to North Korea....
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec, 1/29/2013 1:42:39 PM (No. 9146672)
Cats can fly? Who knew....
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
joew9, 1/29/2013 1:42:39 PM (No. 9146671)
And trillions more still need killing.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
fb2002, 1/29/2013 1:42:47 PM (No. 9146673)
I am sure there has to be some connection to global warming turning felines into bird murderers. If it were colder, the cats would not kill.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Cavallodifiero, 1/29/2013 1:42:50 PM (No. 9146674)
Lets get rid of all the cats in the world and then the dogs and then the cows, pigs, goats and horses, but first lets get rid of all the morons, socialists, communists, and all enemies of freedom. That would include Oppressive Politicians, maniacal "religious" groups who wish to kill all who do not believe in their brand of paganism. And last all the animals listed above, unless popular opinion has changed.
Anyone object?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Hammock, 1/29/2013 1:44:04 PM (No. 9146679)
I hate to think how high the mouse and rat population in my neighborhood would be without the devoted cats on the night shift (and the owl).
My own kitty stays inside unless on a leash.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
provide, 1/29/2013 1:46:14 PM (No. 9146684)
14th century Europe learned about the wages of cat killing.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
LudicrousSextus, 1/29/2013 1:46:35 PM (No. 9146685)
Darn right! Let´s rid the landscape of bird genocide machines!!!
What? Cats? Geez...my bad! I thought you were talking about wind power...
Carry on w/ the feline badmouthing. Knowing the US environmental lobby, they´d rather have Bubonic Plague back anyway - get rid of the pesky humans, eh?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
disasterman, 1/29/2013 1:47:51 PM (No. 9146687)
We recently had a Python round up here in South Florida, all of the captured non native snakes were destroyed. My plan involved catching them alive, placing tracking chips in them, then releasing them in areas with large feral cat populations. So far no one from the state has returned my calls.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Bevan, 1/29/2013 1:49:58 PM (No. 9146692)
If I could only get my cat to eat democrats.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
curious1, 1/29/2013 1:50:11 PM (No. 9146693)
I think #7 might have a workable solution to a lot of problems!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
aindyin, 1/29/2013 1:55:21 PM (No. 9146710)
Shame they aren´t killing liberals instead.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Scottyboy, 1/29/2013 1:55:57 PM (No. 9146714)
Deleted by Taste Police.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Sanspeur, 1/29/2013 2:00:16 PM (No. 9146729)
How come EVERYTHING I like is someone else´s anti crusade?? Cats, tobacco , adult beverages, fast hot cars and motorcycles, church , trans fats, salt , butter, guns, ammo , marriage with a member of the opposite sex, , American military and her Consritution , big pharma, big oil ..??
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Mr. Hanky, 1/29/2013 2:00:45 PM (No. 9146731)
No high catpacity mags and assault-cats!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
gazelam, 1/29/2013 2:02:51 PM (No. 9146738)
I can haz sparrow?
Seriously, 50 years ago I had a cat that would lie in wait in weeds near a pond while swifts raced across the pond eating bugs. When the birds came overhead he would leap up and get one nearly every time. Lots of fun to watch.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
mackrand, 1/29/2013 2:04:31 PM (No. 9146742)
From my point of view, it is arguable that Egypts´ problems began when they killed all the pigs. Literally sent the whole country into a tailspin when the pigs weren´t there to eat the edible garbage which led to garbage pile up and all that that brings. They will never recover. Screwing with the status quo just to be doing something is never a good idea.
Just like killing all the cats would bring back the plague because plague carrying rats began to proliferate when they didn´t have cats to keep them in check. Look it up.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Attercliffe, 1/29/2013 2:10:37 PM (No. 9146757)
#1, We moved to Durham, NC, in 1992 and licensing was already in effect. Here in the Charleston metro area there is a three-cat limit but no licensing.
Because we have indoor cats we have no insects in the house. The only mouse that made it in was held in the mouth--gently--of a 16lb cat who proudly presented it to me. I was able to release it outside.
The outdoor cat from next door takes care of the voles and moles who dig in the yard and kill plants. I understand she also keeps the flying roach population in check. While I have found a number of vole and mole bodies, I have found only one unfortunate bird--and that could have flown into a nearby window first.
If you ask me about hawks and other meat-eating birds, I can tell you I´ve seen them catch untold numbers of birds, as have many of my neighbors.
I´m of the opinion that those who don´t like cats have a lot to do with this movement. Anecdotally, I have observed that the vast majority of people who dislike cats are liberals. Not all, but a majority. Honest! I think it´s because most cats tend to be less "emotionally" needy than dogs and have an independent nature. If they voted, most cats would vote Republican.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
zoidberg, 1/29/2013 2:10:47 PM (No. 9146759)
From my cold, dead lap!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
civilservant, 1/29/2013 2:12:45 PM (No. 9146765)
#22...forgive me......please forgive me.........
Do you mean......Molon Tabby?
;)
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
capuzzi2, 1/29/2013 2:13:18 PM (No. 9146766)
I would like to kill all those nasty SOB´s. I spend alot of time in the woods deer hunting and feral cats are by far the most frequent animal I see. In virginia, you used to be able to kill them, but now its against the law.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
thelmalou, 1/29/2013 2:16:33 PM (No. 9146774)
Snifter clink to #22, #23. ;)
RE: #21 - They would also have a strong libertarian streak in them. That´s if they didn´t decide to set up a bunch of small monarchies instead (with themselves as the monarch, natch).
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
clw54, 1/29/2013 2:18:36 PM (No. 9146780)
The libs just want common sense cat control. It´s for the greater good.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
freightdog, 1/29/2013 2:22:42 PM (No. 9146786)
No cats prowl our neighborhood but the songbirds have all disappeared over the past two years. (I´ve never seen a cat, no tracks in the soil or snow, don´t know anyone nearby who owns one, etc.) The only addition to the neighborhood was a red tailed hawk that became proficient at picking off the little birds. The hawks might also have something to do with keeping the cat population down.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Blackeagle, 1/29/2013 2:24:38 PM (No. 9146791)
My evil cat killed about 12 mice last year. My kitten is building up an Obama-sized body count with her lizard kills. They´re like having armed Predators on patrol 24/7.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 1/29/2013 2:43:29 PM (No. 9146831)
With all of the things going wrong in this country, picking on cats, a natural predator, is the best you can do Rebecca ? My fat is too fat to catch anything.
First they came after smokers, then old people, fat people, the disabled, our guns, and now our cats. Go away.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
wsdiego, 1/29/2013 2:53:53 PM (No. 9146861)
Lets hope the keep eating those mice! These people are just stupid!
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
6079 Smith, W, 1/29/2013 3:00:00 PM (No. 9146874)
Ye. That is what they do! They have been doing it for thousands of years. It´s the whole "Circle of Life" thing.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
gartenfrau, 1/29/2013 3:24:17 PM (No. 9146914)
I miss having my own little vole and mole eater. He also kept the rabbits away from my garden. We used to have a bunch of semi-feral cats down the street, but their home (a disabled truck) was finally removed. Saw one of them get a baby rabbit last spring from my neighbors yard. They keep down the varmits for sure.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
mean Gene, 1/29/2013 3:59:51 PM (No. 9146964)
Living near the Ports of Los Angeles/Long Beach I can testify to the fact that Norway rats are a gigantic issue. Were it not for the feral cats these packs of big rats would intimidate people, dogs, even pit bulls! One, alone is almost as big as a cat, yet the cat wins the fight.
Yeah, liberals ´´win.´´ Kill off the feral cats. Let the Norway rats have the cities.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
sternben, 1/29/2013 4:00:14 PM (No. 9146966)
If our pilgrim forefathers had hunted cats instead of turkeys, on Thanksgiving we would all be eating (nevermind).
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Country Boy, 1/29/2013 4:11:54 PM (No. 9146993)
I probably have 25-50 wild mice in my basement right now (cold outside). The only thing that is keeping them down there and not upstairs with me is two cats, which both want to go down and visit the mice.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
901AtTheRiver, 1/29/2013 4:14:58 PM (No. 9147002)
The eagles and red-tail hawks have taken out a few cats in my neighborhood, so it all evens out in the end.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
ocho reales, 1/29/2013 4:15:05 PM (No. 9147003)
One of my cats kills lizards and snakes. I also wish they would hunt democrats.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
jalo1951, 1/29/2013 4:15:40 PM (No. 9147006)
I have indoor cats. They kill a lot of red lights, stuffed toy mice and rabbit fur balls. However, they do kill spiders. I HATE spiders and I will not discourage their behavior. One cat in particular likes to pick them up in his mouth, bite it once, spit it out on the lanoleum and then play with it to death. Works for me.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
jalo1951, 1/29/2013 4:16:40 PM (No. 9147011)
Oops forgot to mention then he eats it.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
MattMusson, 1/29/2013 4:17:00 PM (No. 9147012)
Without them - we´d be up to our asses in mice and rats.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
mickturn, 1/29/2013 4:22:07 PM (No. 9147022)
If the cats didn´t eat so many rodents you would be overrun and disesas would be rampant.
Balance not stupidity is what is needed...
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
beth, 1/29/2013 4:30:48 PM (No. 9147032)
#24 I´m sure the deer would rather have the cats in the woods than you!!
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
bgarrett, 1/29/2013 4:34:53 PM (No. 9147039)
Cats killing billions of animals in the US
and your point is???
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
Zirondelle, 1/29/2013 6:28:33 PM (No. 9147194)
Let anyone try to take my kitty! And 24, you better never hope to encounter me in the woods.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
vinegrower, 1/29/2013 10:19:30 PM (No. 9147473)
We used to live in Marin County, CA. About 15-20 yrs ago a housing development was proposed in San Rafael near the wetlands. The environmentalists went crazy because of some endangered mouse that lived in the area. So the county issued the permits with the stipulation that none of the buyers could have cats. I kid you not. We have since moved, but the last I heard they were being taking over by rodents so they were rethinking the policy. Gee, you think! You can´t make this stuff up.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
pineledger, 1/30/2013 6:23:23 AM (No. 9147793)
10 is right. Those who do not remember history are condemned to repeat it.
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Susan Patton, the Princeton alumna who became famous for her letter urging Ivy League women to use their college years to find a mate, has been denounced as a traitor to feminism, to coeducation, to the university ideal. But really she’s something much more interesting: a traitor to her class. Her betrayal consists of being gauche enough to acknowledge publicly a truth that everyone who’s come up through Ivy League culture knows intuitively —
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Broadcasters worry about ´Zero TV´ homes
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Associated Press, by Ryan Nakashima
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Posted By: Ribicon- 4/7/2013 2:43:40 PM
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Los Angeles — Some people have had it with TV. They´ve had enough of the 100-plus channel universe. They don´t like timing their lives around network show schedules. They´re tired of $100-plus monthly bills. A growing number of them have stopped paying for cable and satellite TV service, and don´t even use an antenna to get free signals over the air. (Snip) Last month, the Nielsen Co. started labeling people in this group "Zero TV" households, because they fall outside the traditional definition of a TV home. There are 5 million of these residences in the U.S., up from
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Beyonce, Jay-Z celebrate 5th anniversary in Havana, Cuba
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Los Angeles Times, by Nardine Saad
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/6/2013 8:20:04 AM
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Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their island best.(snip).The power couple declined to answer journalists´ questions about their visit to the island nation, but some outlets are reporting that the moguls are there as tourists, though that would be illegal because of the half-century embargo the U.S. has on the Communist country. However, the Miami Herald said Washington has issued special licenses for
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Obama Budget to Cap Retirement Accounts at $3 Million
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Tony Lee
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/5/2013 9:40:39 PM
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The budget President Barack Obama will submit on April 10 will contain a proposal that would prohibit individuals from accumulating more than $3 million in Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and tax-preferred retirement accounts. According to a White House statement, the Obama administration believes the current rules allow some wealthy individuals "to accumulate many millions of dollars in these accounts, substantially more than is needed to fund reasonable levels of retirement saving." "The budget would limit an individual’s total balance across tax-preferred accounts to an amount sufficient to finance an annuity of not more than $205,000 per
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