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From: mm@cloud9.Stratus.COM (Mike Mahler)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Cats & WIld Birds
Message-ID: <9694@cloud9.Stratus.COM>
Date: 28 Nov 89 15:55:14 GMT
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In article <822@wrgate.WR.TEK.COM>, denise@dadla.WR.TEK.COM (Denise Caire) writes:
> In article <1989Nov23.141826.24882@utzoo.uucp> rising@utzoo.uucp (Jim Rising) writes:

> If your concerned that cats are depopulating the birds of
> our world, then you are wrong.

    Actually, you might be the one in the "wrong".  There was a recent
    study in London where the people running the study asked cat owners
    to save the animals that their cats brought home.  Some people were
    real proud of their cat's catch saving multiple kills for a week in 
    the freezer.  They would come around and collect these animals from
    these people and count them over a long period of time.  The
    results of extrapolating the count to include cat owners in general
    showed that PET CATS were killing on the order of 10's of MILLIONS of
    birds each year!  I'll find the article and type it in.

>  You must be aware of the real villian;
> the greed of mankind. 

    Bad Man.  BAD MAN.  (I can almost hear Lorne Greene now...)

    You mean the IRRESPONSIBILITY of man.  The IRRESPONSIBLE people who
    don't keep tabs on their tabby.  

> And no, I will not get into it, what with
> pesticides, fertilizer, and toxic waste, it's too big to take on.

    It's often the combination of many LITTLE things that do the most
    damange.  Nature is very pliable at surmounting large incidents
    whether they are caused by "bad man" or nature.

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