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Feeding local wildlife (lemmy.world)
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[–] ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 40 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours 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 5 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 0 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours 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 7 points 12 hours 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 4 points 9 hours ago

Ah, shit. You're right.