Keep your cats indoors.

[sam]

Originally Posted by eminart

I'm going to guess that the documentary you watched hardly did the research that goes into real science. Keeping cats outdoors is ecologically irresponsible.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/...irds-each-year

YES! This is a great example, thanks Eminart.

Here's what Slinkey said in the comments:

"I think people have to do some math.

Scenario: 1 bird kill per week per cat, so 52 kills per year for one cat.

To make 1 billion kills, divide by 52 kills and you get the number of cats needed:

1 billion/52 = ~19.2 million cats.

Number of cats in the contiguous US is ~114 million

So if 17% of the cats in the US killed one bird per week it would make over a billion birds killed per year.

If we divide 1 billion kills by 114 million cats we get ~9 kills per cat per year.

I wouldn't mind betting the numbers in the article are actually conservative figures."

Very well said, Slinkey.

I'd like to add that these 'documentaries' were most likely not pointed toward scientific analysis. They were likely oriented to the casual viewer and made by a bunch of guys who stuck cameras to some cats to see where they went. For entertainment, to see how 'shocked' the owners were when Mr. Fluffles went and had a kitty affair with the neighbors. *DRAMA ALERT*

I've seen these 'documentaries' before, lol.