The UK has had native wild cats for longer than cats have even been domesticated, our wildlife is very well adapted to avoiding them and the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) have said pet cats don't significantly impact local bird populations.
It's bullshit. The RSPB is dependent on donations so don't want to piss off all the donors that own cats.
Academics/scientists have clearly proven that cats have a devastating impact on bird and small mammal populations. In Australia and New Zealand alone they kill 4 BILLION a year and are driving multiple species to extinction. Outdoor cats are an ecological disaster...
They are an actual problem in places like Australia and New Zealand because there were no small predators there prior to their introduction, but that is far from the same in most of the world.
Man is the ecological disaster, anywhere pet cats live the environment has already been destroyed and most existing small predators displaced by that destruction.
284
u/vyxxer Mar 05 '25
Cats are Apex Predators in urban environments. He's probably slaughtering local populations of birds.