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Feeding local wildlife
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this post was submitted on 13 Dec 2025
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People who have outdoor cats are facilitating the extinction of birds. I'm completely serious. Domestic cats kill billions of birds annually.
Yeah. The coyotes are just doing course correction for nature.
It's not possible to measure how much wildlife specifically domestic cats kill so that statistic is actually from all cats, which include strays. I'm not saying you're wrong, or that this means you should leave your cat out but it's important to be accurate.
"Domestic cat" is referring to the species Felis catus. Strays and ferals are still the same species, just at different levels of human habituation.
Ah, shit. You're right.