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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 have received countless numbers of wild birds mangled and/or killed by outdoor/feral cats, such as the Orange-crowned Warbler pictured here. If you love your cats so much, why don’t you protect them? It sickens me.

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How many birds are killed by windmills and other green energy projects?

10,000 Birds

A recent meta study ( The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States ) that applied strict inclusion criteria and some fancy statistics estimates that 2.4 Also, in relatively natural, or wild, lands in much of the US the feral cat population will be limited by a healthy wild predator population.

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