Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: Cats. Wow!

[Kevin Wolf (kjwolf]

Jan
My main reason for writing was to point out the difficulty discussion such 
as this have when people write/talk in extreme language. One couldn't have 
guessed from your post that you attempted to keep your cats inside nor that 
you saw the position that cats should be indoors as other than 
extreme.  Thank you for clarifying this is not your perspective.

I imagine that this discussion would be less problematic if it was done in 
person because the clarification would come sooner.  In the medium of 
email, we must ask questions and clarify in the tedious, and more difficult 
medium of letters and written words.

Thank you for the clarification and for your concern for the environment.

Kevin

P.S.  We mostly have jays and crows here in part because the cats have 
eradicated or scared off most other species.  When migrations occur new 
species come through and we see the evidence in new species of dead birds 
from cat kills.

At 02:00 PM 9/3/2001 +1000, Forbes Jan wrote:
> Kevin
>
> I gather from your post that you wanted to know whether I feel guilty about
> having cats.  As a responsible pet owner I am concerned about the effect of
> cats on birds and other wildlife in my area.
>
> I live in a built up area where the main birds are sparrows, starlings and
> blackbirds.  All of them are considered pest species.  My cats are mostly
> indoors so the chance of them catching even one of these birds is minute.
> They've not caught any yet.  As someone mentioned earlier, the threat of
> cats to native lizards is greater and a better reason to keep them inside.
>
> Feral cats pose more of a risk to wildlife.  However human destruction of
> their natural habitats poses an even greater risk.  A friend of mine who is
> a wildlife biologist said that the main native birds that the feral cats get
> anyway are the weak ones.
>
>
>
> Jan
>
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