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"Pennyaline" > wrote in message
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> notbob wrote:
>> On 2009-04-18, Bob Terwilliger > wrote:
>>
>>> But let's be real he Domestic cats are NOT a "threat to our species."
>>> It
>>> is hyperbolic hysteria even to *hint* at such a thing.

>>
>> Is that right? Howzabout studies showing cats (especially domestic) are
>> becoming
>> a threat to the survival of some songbird species? How much depridation
>> can
>> we survive before in begins impacting our own survival. Tens of millions
>> of
>> house cats IS environmentally out of balance.

>
> You mean a "Silent Spring" kind of thing?
>
> If house cats were truly kept as house cats, they would prove little
> threat to the songbird population.
>
> It's feral cats, domesticated cats dumped by their owners, and house cats
> allowed to wander that are the problem.


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