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An Open Letter to Outdoor/Feral Cat Supporters

10,000 Birds

Dear Outdoor Cat Owners/Feral Cat Supporters, Does the photo above sicken you? I’ve rescued field mice to horses, and everything in between. I look at the photo, and am enraged by how cruel and callous human beings can be. I look at these birds, and am enraged by how cruel and callous human beings can be.

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A True Mouse Anecdote -- does anyone have a similar story?

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I read that if you scale up a mouse to human size and you look at body-lengths per second, they are moving at 152.6 I have always been interested in mice. They are not genetically so dissimilar to humans, sharing a lot of our genetic material. Note that neither dogs nor cats have hands, but both mice and rats do.

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Quantico Has No Compassion for Feral Cats

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Quantico Military Base is really behaving cruelly when it comes to the feral cats on its base. Of course, this is the military, so why should they be any better than humanity in general?) It is their belief, he said, that rendering most of the feral cats sexually inactive will humanely decrease their numbers. ‘‘The

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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

10,000 Birds

I know on some level, I think that’s something almost all of us can get behind…no one, except the most callous and cold-hearted of the human race things its fine to torture animals, or deny that they are capable of pain and suffering. . – The Great Ornithologist Felonious Jive Animal rights. The logic of this is ridiculous.

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That Awkward Moment With Feral Cats and Family

10,000 Birds

Case in point: some of my family members have become active with feral cat colony organizations. On the one hand, it’s better than doing nothing with a feral cat colony. But I don’t agree with the supplemental feeding that happens with feral cats–if you’re gonna call them wildlife, treat them as such.