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War on Cats

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  • AxtremusA Offline
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    In Australia:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/science/australia-wildlife-cats.html?unlocked_article_code=1.k00.LWtW.62FoYRAJk0XU

    Cats are not villains. But they are hunters, and through no fault of their own they take an enormous toll on the world’s wildlife. They pose an especially acute threat in Australia, which has no native feline species but is home to a menagerie of slow-to-reproduce, snack-size mammals.

    Since European settlers, and their cats, began arriving in Australia in the late 18th century, at least 34 species of native mammals have gone extinct. It is the worst mammalian extinction rate in the modern world, and cats have been “a major contributor,” said Sarah Legge, a wildlife ecologist at Charles Darwin University and the Australian National University. “Our fauna just haven’t evolved to cope with cats.”

    Anyway, haven't heard from @Catseye3 for a long while. Anyone knows how she is lately?

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      Ours drug up a mouse from the basement last night. Sadly Luna has not yet tumbled to the fact that we want her to kill it, not just bring it up to show us, then drop it and we end up having to catch the damn thing and put it out.

      “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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        In Australia:

        https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/science/australia-wildlife-cats.html?unlocked_article_code=1.k00.LWtW.62FoYRAJk0XU

        Cats are not villains. But they are hunters, and through no fault of their own they take an enormous toll on the world’s wildlife. They pose an especially acute threat in Australia, which has no native feline species but is home to a menagerie of slow-to-reproduce, snack-size mammals.

        Since European settlers, and their cats, began arriving in Australia in the late 18th century, at least 34 species of native mammals have gone extinct. It is the worst mammalian extinction rate in the modern world, and cats have been “a major contributor,” said Sarah Legge, a wildlife ecologist at Charles Darwin University and the Australian National University. “Our fauna just haven’t evolved to cope with cats.”

        Anyway, haven't heard from @Catseye3 for a long while. Anyone knows how she is lately?

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        @Axtremus said in War on Cats:

        haven't heard from @Catseye3 for a long while

        Been MIA since June of last year. 😞

        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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          Yeah, I have a feeling we've lost another friend, but one who sadly didn't have anyone to let us know.

          “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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          • MikM Mik

            Yeah, I have a feeling we've lost another friend, but one who sadly didn't have anyone to let us know.

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            @Mik

            That has been my fear as well.

            Elbows up!

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