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Cat General => General Cat Chat => Topic started by: Angiew on May 11, 2011, 10:37:27 AM

Title: bbc topic - should cats be restricted for the sake of wildlife
Post by: Angiew on May 11, 2011, 10:37:27 AM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/wondermonkey/2011/05/tiddles-law-should-we-restrict.shtml
Title: Re: bbc topic - should cats be restricted for the sake of wildlife
Post by: Susanne (urbantigers) on May 11, 2011, 10:41:17 AM
Cats are just acting as the natural predators they are.  If the ecosystem is out of whack and species are becoming extinct, there's only one species that should shoulder the blame - humans.
Title: Re: bbc topic - should cats be restricted for the sake of wildlife
Post by: jezebel on May 11, 2011, 13:28:52 PM
Humans should certainly be restricted!

Seriously, how can this even be debated when humans carry on destroying so much wildlife and habitat and sucking up the planet's resources?

The only thing that should be restricted to one per household are children!
Title: Re: bbc topic - should cats be restricted for the sake of wildlife
Post by: Jiskefet on May 11, 2011, 18:54:16 PM
The numbers of birds decline because WE destroy their ecosystem and breeding places, not because cats catch the unwary and the old, sick and weak of the species. If anything , cats help the species survive by weeding out the lesser individuals.

Also, cats make up for some of the natural predators we have eliminated or greatly reduced, such as wolves.

The Aussie people may be right....... about Australia that is. Cats are not an indigenous species down under, they have no natural enemies and upset the ecosystem. As do rabbits, horses, sheep and other  animals WE introduced there.
Title: Re: bbc topic - should cats be restricted for the sake of wildlife
Post by: JackSpratt on May 11, 2011, 18:59:48 PM
Cats are just acting as the natural predators they are.  If the ecosystem is out of whack and species are becoming extinct, there's only one species that should shoulder the blame - humans.

Agreed. I love that there's someone who thinks they can train their cats out of an inbuilt, ingrained instinct to hunt in the comments....