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I see what you're saying, I'm using domestic and pet interchangeably. That's because pets are domestic animals, the domestic cat is named that because it was domesticated. These words can all be used at the same time and are. Pets, domesticated cats, whose species common name is the domestic cat, are responsible for all feral populations in the US. There is no source for feral cats beyond the introduction of them by people. Which occurred through both pets and working animals in farms, shipping, etc.
I'm arguing with the other user that the graph isn't actually saying anything about cats, it's talking about windmills and the fact that pet domestic cats are responsible for 1/3rd of the bird killings on that graph is meaningless because the feral population does not exist without the domestic pet population of domestic cats.
The whole point of the graph is pointing out that no one gives a shit about how many birds cats kill, so why are we arguing about windmills using birds.
I'm not sure if we still disagree.
Yes, sorry. I suppose I could have been more precise from the get-go. That's what I get for using social media at work. I understand the desire to see the data broken down further, but at the same time, it does make sense to me to keep pet cats and feral cats lumped together in the context of analyzing bird deaths associated with humans. I think we're in complete agreement with that sorted out.
Yeah, I can be obtuse, sorry.