Reply #244: There are possibly 100 million cats in the U. S. Do you believe... [View All]

[BikeWriter]

our ecosystem can continue to sustain them and our wildlife? As I mentioned to someone else, try Googling "feral cats song birds extinct" Here's one of my first results. What is it about letting a cat run free that makes it worth making a species extinct? TNR reduces litters, but it does not significantly reduce the number of overall predators.

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Factors such as habitat destruction, pesticide pollution, and high domestic cat numbers, stress populations of songbirds and small mammals. Second only to habitat destruction as an environmental problem, cats have probably been involved in the extinction of many bird species. Populations of birds such as the Least Tern, Piping Plover, and Loggerhead Shrikes have been threatened by the predatory nature of domestic cats. Population of small mammals, such as the Florida Marsh Rabbit, mice and woodrats have also been reduced to the point of near extinction on Florida’s barrier islands.
http://www.cdri.org/Discovery/Feral%20Cats.html