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Feeding local wildlife (lemmy.world)
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[–] ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 53 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

People who have outdoor cats are facilitating the extinction of birds. I'm completely serious. Domestic cats kill billions of birds annually.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah. The coyotes are just doing course correction for nature.

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works -5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's not possible to measure how much wildlife specifically domestic cats kill so that statistic is actually from all cats, which include strays. I'm not saying you're wrong, or that this means you should leave your cat out but it's important to be accurate.

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"Domestic cat" is referring to the species Felis catus. Strays and ferals are still the same species, just at different levels of human habituation.

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago

Ah, shit. You're right.