Outdoor cat hysteria: the birdocaust

[Echinacea]

What the fuck is going on with the "CATS ARE INVASIVE SPECIES AND KILL A BILLION NATIVE BIRDS EVERY DAY" rhetoric? Every video I see of a cat on social media now has replies upon replies that are just people talking about how they want to kill the cat....for the environment of course.

I am not telling people to let their cats roam free unfixed, but this shit is just getting weird when people who live in new housing developments that used to be woodland are talking about cats like they're the atom bomb. It has reached mass hysteria when I cannot see a video without a 65 year old man commenting about how much he wants to kill cats and he finally has the chance to do it in a socially acceptable manner. And the Falkland has has people living on it for over a century, and I'm sure many had pet cats. So yeah sorry. Somehow the cats didn't manage to wipe out the penguins yet. I've noticed nobody ever brings up invasive bird species.

 

[Echinacea]

"I love cats bro. I just think they should be killed on sight for no reason because THE SCIENCE told me so. Don't you know that cats exclusively seek out native bird species to kill?"

"Yes I own a massive truck that I only use to drive to walmart and mcdonalds, but i really care about the environment and am totally not pretending to care about the it for a socially acceptable outlet for my sadistic tendencies"

Who buys this shit?

 

[pot of sneed]

I do think cats shouldn't really be allowed to roam because they do murder a shitton of wildlife, but also for the cat's own safety because I've seen one get run over before which was absolutely horrible. That's not even counting the crazies out there who knock them off either through poisoning or, god forbid, abduction to do god knows what to. I like cats, hell, all animals really but complaints against them are valid too.

 

[VargReallyDidNothingWrong]

What the fuck is going on with the "CATS ARE INVASIVE SPECIES AND KILL A BILLION NATIVE BIRDS EVERY DAY" rhetoric?

I mean, its true, and just because you're some toxoplasmosis-infected catbrain retard doesn't change that.

Feral cats get the bullet.

 

[Echinacea]

I do think cats shouldn't really be allowed to roam because they do murder a shitton of wildlife, but also for the cat's own safety because I've seen one get run over before which was absolutely horrible. Not's not even counting the loonies out there who knock them off either through poisoning or, god forbid, abduction to do god knows what to. I like cats, hell, all animals really but complaints against them are valid too.

The people complaining about outdoor cats are the same ones that will blame the child if a dog bites them. So I ask, what did those birds do to provoke the cats?

I mean, its true, and just because you're some toxoplasmosis-infected catbrain retard doesn't change that.

Feral cats get the bullet.

have sex

 

[millais]

Feral cats aren't doing a very good job hunting the vermin because the cat ladies keep them fattened on piles of cat food that they indiscriminately dump.

 

[Echinacea]

the cat ladies

yeah, thats all this is about.

 

[WilliamDeLaPole]

I know the answer. It's because cats are secretly werewolves

 

[DumbDude43]

yeah fuck that noise
wherever humans live, cats also live. we're basically symbiotic species and have been for thousands of years. if other fauna can't handle our furry friends, tough shit. better get used to them cause they're not going anywhere.

 

[Contra Pozz]

I've noticed nobody ever brings up invasive bird species.

That's because invasive birds are mostly just annoying, while house cats are a worldwide Dirlewanger Brigade pogrom'ing small wildlife to extinction.

 

[Echinacea]

There's just something very bizarre going on. The level of hysteria over cats from people who are scared to eat vegetables or walk more than a block is very strange. And it has real consequences.

https://www.cnn.com/2011/12/14/justice/dc-cat-poisoning

^This was one of the people who wrote those studies on cats causing a birdocaust btw.

 

[SofondaCox]

The introduction of an apex predator to an environment does remarkable damage. Give your cat the best catio you can afford and call it good. Or destroy the songbirds, I don't care. Birds are dirty. I'm on team mammal.

 

[i440BX]

For once I agree with OP on something, roaming cats are desirable if you have a farm or live at countryside. They are better at catching mice and rats.
Also I prefer my pets to be outside, I don't really like animal smell.

But I am indeed sad that songbirds are killed by cats, if there existed something that made cats unable to hunt songbirds but still be able to hunt mice.

 

[Male Idiot]

That's because invasive birds are mostly just annoying, while house cats are a worldwide Dirlewanger Brigade pogrom'ing small wildlife to extinction.

Lovecraft approved.

Cats have been around most of the world for centuries. Cats and dogs are just symbiotic species, alongside horses, cows, pigs and chickens. May as well get used to it.

This is just abbos screeching because shooting the cats is easier and cheaper than making preserves for their birdies, and that eats into the gibsmuh of darkies.

 

[Fascist Frederick]

The birds deserve to die because the cats can kill them. In time, only the strongest birds will remain.

 

[𝕺𝖑' 𝕯𝖎𝖗𝖙𝖞 𝕱𝖆𝖙𝖘𝖔]

yeah fuck that noise
wherever humans live, cats also live. we're basically symbiotic species and have been for thousands of years. if other fauna can't handle our furry friends, tough shit. better get used to them cause they're not going anywhere.

The feral cat birdocaust thing seems to be a new mind virus, like sure there are problems with introducing cats to a new ecosystem but im pretty sure Bumfucksville, Ohio has had cats for centuries without there being a massive die off of birds lmao.

There's just something very bizarre going on. The level of hysteria over cats from people who are scared to eat vegetables or walk more than a block is very strange. And it has real consequences.

Western culture has had a weird low level anti cat hysteria pretty much forever

Lovecraft approved.

Cats have been around most of the world for centuries. Cats and dogs are just symbiotic species, alongside horses, cows, pigs and chickens. May as well get used to it.

This is just abbos screeching because shooting the cats is easier and cheaper than making preserves for their birdies, and that eats into the gibsmuh of darkies.

Cattle, pig and chicken farming are far worse for the environment than random feral cat colonies living in human neighborhoods could ever be. Cats are only going to kill birds within their relatively small territories but the runoff from agriculture that gets into waterways fucks over ecosystems at every level via eutrophication.

 

[peachlover669]

all this rhetoric about 6 million deaths occurring during the birdocaust is absurd. they claim that small birds and even some larger than that were killed indiscriminately and in a massive scale upon the felines introduction despite the fact that only about as much as a few hundred cats were ever released to the area! and whats even more bizarre is that this number of avian deaths has actually changed over time from its initial 3 million to 5 and i hear now that some bluejays are even claiming numbers as high as 8 million!!! when will this birdbrained madness end???

 

[teriyakiburns]

I can't speak for the rest of the world, but the fall in UK songbird population does rather neatly coincide with the decision to protect magpies under the wildlife and countryside act 1981. Magpies, more than any other corvid, routunely destroy songbird nests and eat their young. THey used to be hunted by raptors like kites, but the population of those birds declined markedly from the 1940s onwards. The magpie population was generally kept in check by farmers until the 80s, but since then has only been periodically culled and allowd to grow rapidly. Song bird numbers have dwindled in proportion.

Intensive farming and development of large housing estates has also contributed to habitat loss for song birds and other small creatures, even perhaps moreso than the rising magpie population (and I can blame a lot of this on the need to cater for immigrants as well, which is fun). All told, cats have a fairly minor impact on bird populations and are really more dangerous for rodents and moles.

 

[i440BX]

I can't speak for the rest of the world, but the fall in UK songbird population does rather neatly coincide with the decision to protect magpies under the wildlife and countryside act 1981. Magpies, more than any other corvid, routunely destroy songbird nests and eat their young. THey used to be hunted by raptors like kites, but the population of those birds declined markedly from the 1940s onwards. The magpie population was generally kept in check by farmers until the 80s, but since then has only been periodically culled and allowd to grow rapidly. Song bird numbers have dwindled in proportion.

Intensive farming and development of large housing estates has also contributed to habitat loss for song birds and other small creatures, even perhaps moreso than the rising magpie population (and I can blame a lot of this on the need to cater for immigrants as well, which is fun). All told, cats have a fairly minor impact on bird populations and are really more dangerous for rodents and moles.

The question is, why did kites disappear from UK? Poison? Them being considered a pest at certain times?

 

[teriyakiburns]

The question is, why did kites disappear from UK? Poison? Them being considered a pest at certain times?

Same sort of reasons. They take lambs and chickens sometimes, so farmers would often kill them if they could, but it's mostly habitat loss. They're more abundant in Scotland and the north of England.