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Feral cats - Australia's native animal annihilators 😼🦜 | Meet the Ferals Ep 2 | ABC Australia
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- Опубликовано: 15 янв 2020
- Feral cats are deadly killers responsible for the extinction of more than 20 Australian native species and they carry diseases that impact the sheep industry. 📺Watch the full series here: • Meet The Ferals | Land...
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Ep 1: Covet, catch or cull: managing feral horses in Australia 🐎 ruclips.net/video/hBJN8BOK4oI/видео.html
Ep 2: Feral cats - Australia's native animal annihilators 😼🦜 ruclips.net/video/VaB9J8JHVxI/видео.html
Ep 3: The complex conundrum of wild deer in Australia 🦌 ruclips.net/video/Aa7Ehl9UcHY/видео.html
Ep 4: The devastating impact of Australia's wild dogs 🐕 ruclips.net/video/qLMehMZWq80/видео.html
Ep 5: Big bucks: feral goats recognised as a serious asset 🐐 ruclips.net/video/ZJGvqmKsApk/видео.html
Ep 6: 160 year battle against one of Australia's worst invasives 🐇 ruclips.net/video/778Da7NCF6s/видео.html
Ep 7: Damage, death & disease: devastating effects of wild boars 🐗 ruclips.net/video/t22hkF0A6h8/видео.html
Ep 8: Outback camels: culls and carcasses or milk and meat? 🐪 ruclips.net/video/PTCeqO0g-sM/видео.html
Ep 9: Battling to eliminate carp from Australian waterways 🐟 ruclips.net/video/lvxJVvFiUGY/видео.html
Lady, the proper boundaries between feral cats and cuddly pets are the walls of your house.
Here, here
100 % sure
Submit to your feline overlords
YES! This is why pet cats should be indoors-only so they don't hunt wild life. Or make them a wildlife (plus cat-safe) catio or cat-yard that is fully fenced.
I dont get how im not allowed to have a pet ferret in QLD, that cant climb trees, that cant hunt anywhere near as well as a cat. Yet even a 13yo can go out and buy a cat and do what ever they want with it. Makes zero sense.
I'm a vet nurse that works with wildlife and feral cats cause so much devastation it's horrible but it's not their fault it's humans fault. One time I saw a feral cat kill a juvenile wallaby while i was out helping trapping feral cats and we trapped this cat and weighed it and it weighed 12 kilograms and I was in shock of how big this cat was they have adapted so well to our environment and sadly our wildlife haven't adapted to feral cats well enough to avoid them quick enough. So please don't dump your cats or dogs its wrong to them and to the environment.
It sounds like these feral cats are starting to slowly evolve since they’ve been so integrated in the country for so long. I agree that these feral cats are not pets, I have four cats of my own, but just like any invasive species they need to have their numbers put in check because without that a whole ecosystem will start to collapse
I don’t like to say this, but I think feral cats should be put down because too many problems in the wild
@@richardvacanti9428 it's not nice to shoot an animal that looks like a pet, but it's the quickest and least terrifying way to do it. There's been massive improvements in areas where coordinated culls have occurred
@@chisholmtrailrides4602 Putting their numbers "in check" would be removing them completely from the ecosystem, since there is no appropriate amount of invasive man made predators.
I thought Australia was supposed to be home to some of the worst animals on the planet have something small as a house cat can decimate the population and Australia has no predators to compete with a cat I don’t know maybe it might be natural selection time I’m so surprised
As much as I love cats, I would definitely support eradicating them for the sake of protecting the natural environment.
I love how cat lovers think there's some kind of debate
Cat kill the mouse in ur house
@Son of Europa Listen softie leftist, this is about rescuing the native animals of Australia, if you can't assimilate harsh procedures because you are spineless, seek help and become a man.
@@AcesHight most scientists and conservationists would be considered "leftists".
I have a life long bond with a bilby...said nobody ever. Cats are an invasive species just like humans and we brought them with us. Long live the ultimate predator.
@William Lawrence It does not matter. If a pet cat goes out at night, it will kill. Very few people keep their cats inside all the time. They have the same instincts as feral cats, so the only thing to do is to keep them inside, which most cat owners don't do.
I live next to the woods. About 22 years ago three little kitties popped up out of the woods and my three young children were in love with them. I built heated houses for them on our back porch, got them all fixed when they got a little older, they lived on our back porch. We fed them canned cat food in the morning, dry cat food bowls were never empty. About two years later, a feral mom cat found heated houses , Food, everything you need on our back porch. She moved in in over the next two years she had two litters. We got the kittens fixed so we wouldn’t be smelling ammonia and they wouldn’t continue to populate, but, we could not catch that mom to have her fixed. Long story short we ended up with 16 cats.
we didn’t notice at first but just about every day there would be a squirrel dissected on the back porch, a full-size redheaded woodpecker, baby birds that couldn’t fly yet, bunnies, Koyie fish from a nearby neighbors pond, snakes, not to mention chipmunks and field mice. Every day there was a sacrifice on our back porch. Some mornings I would come out And the sacrificial object would still be alive and so mangled that I couldn’t move. The one that broke my heart was a full-size woodpecker. With a wing span of about 30 inches. It’s neck was broken. All the cats were sitting around like Dracula’s wives looking at it after they pulled half of its feathers out. That woodpecker looked at me, it could only move it size. It broke my heart but I had to put it out of its misery.
over the next 10 to 15 years, we noticed there were no more rabbits, squirrels, Chipmunks, baby birds, woodpecker’s, I live in a valley, it was completely barren of anything but raccoons and deer.. many times I would see a cat running across the yard with a baby bird squealing for its mother. I tried to catch the cat to get them to drop the bird, but it never worked. They would take them down in the woods and dissect them.
finally 18 years later, I got my porch back. I got rid of the four heated houses that I made, we had the porch remodeled. Finally the last cat finally expired. Here we are two years later, we actually have rabbits, chipmunks, squirrels, baby birds, even garter snakes and turtles have returned. I will never have an outside cat again. They are natures natural born killers, they kill not to eat, they kill to kill.. The Egyptians that domesticated cats somewhat, could never breed out of them the instinct to kill.
if you have a cat, don’t let it out. I never understood why some people hate cats, until now.....
You are responsible for erupting the wildlife and possible killing some endagered animals in your area. I hope you understand what you did and not make the same mistake again. As you witnessed, cats are vile creatures that hunt weaker animals purely for fun and torture them in sickening ways. Justice needs to be brought upon them. I feel pain when people get fooled by their cute apeearance and not realize what kind of creatures they relly are.
Thank you for sharing your story tho. I see that you took responsiblity of the lives you saved until the very end no matter what, and I give huge respect to that. It seems that you live in a place with wonderful nature, and you truly deserve to be there.
@@rengeorge9268
I had no say in the cats staying or going. My three kids that were all under age 5 and my wife thought they were so cute...
they actually were cute at the beginning, but then the reality over the years set in ..
actually, just looking at it from a monetary position, cats have cost me in excess of $200,000..
we were buying 50 pound bags of cat food and a case of canned cat food every 2 to 3 weeks.. I ended up with six heated houses, little A-frames I made that had carpeting/metal floor, 100 W lightbulb under the house for heat, on 24/7 six months of the year. including the vet annual visits and about $150 a month in food, the cats cost me about $3500 a year., that’s $35,000 over 10 years, it’s easily $60,000 over the 17 years..We never went on a vacation because someone had to feed the cats twice a day.
here’s where I really lost money
my mother died and left me two houses on 5 acres of flat land with a trout stream running through it. My mother lived in one house, my uncle lived in the second house. When my uncle died my mom rented the house out to a couple women cat lovers. They only had two cats
when my uncle died, my mom rented her country house out and moved back into her regular house closer to hospitals and family and things like that. Well when my mother died I inherited that property with the two houses. I went on to tell the tenants what happened. When I arrived, the tenants that were two women with two cats had already heard, they stole everything that wasn’t nailed down including all of the wall-to-wall carpeting, the refrigerator, the washer dryer, the dishwasher, the kitchen countertop, most of the drop ceiling panels, and they had the electric hot water tank which was about six months old disconnected for transportation, but I got there before they could get it. they had not paid rent for seven months, I never met them they did not have a lease I didn’t even know who they were. I just knew they were cat lovers because of the smell in the house
The second house that my mother lived in, a true cat lover lived in. Actually she was a cat hoarder. She was affiliated with a local animal friends place She took the cats that no one would adopt because she had a house in the country..
she was not home when I arrived, but I saw that she had cut a little hole in a big window about the size of a pool table for the cats to come and go. I looked in that window and I was horrified. There were cats everywhere. There were balls of cat hair throughout the room I was looking into which was the kitchen and into the living room. These balls of Catur were like tumbleweeds. While I was looking in the window I got attacked by fleas.. The smell was almost nostril burning.
to make a long story short, that woman had over 50 cats, and she had lived there for a couple years.
here’s where I lost the money
going through the tax records, my mother was paying taxes based on the value that State had set on her property. The total value that was being taxed which is usually about half of what the actual value is when you go to sell the place, was $194,000. Which means, the place would easily have sold for a quarter of $1 million...
because of the situation with the cats, and the smell in the house that could never be removed, and that woman was not cleaning up after the cats, I had advertised the property as is, and a total disaster.. I ended up selling the property with two houses on it for $62,000 to a real estate woman that wanted just the property...
it has been eight years since my mother died and I sold those properties. They are still unlivable because of the damage and the smell of cats
so I lost about $180,000 from my mothers property being destroyed by cats/cat lovers..And having all those feral cats that we ended up with on our back porch, the vet bills to have them fixed and get their shots every year, feeding them, running 600 Watts of heaters 24 seven for six months a year for almost 17 years... it’s safe to safely underestimate my loss from cats in dollars, as close to a quarter of $1 million..
when I think of all the things we didn’t do, all the new vehicles we didn’t buy, when I think of that much money could’ve paid for College for all three of my kids.. that’s more than I paid for my house which took me 30 years to pay off....if I had put a quarter of $1 million into an annuity, that would pay me $14,500 a year for life .. when you think of it in those terms, I must’ve been out of my mind to allow that to happen. But, I remember my wife and kids saying to me about the cats...
“ but they’re so cute”
@@Jodyrides you said it all right there...too many cats.
probably why you like watching this....
the True killers are the irresponsible cat owners.
Couldn't have said it better . My 4 are fixed stay in side . The colony cats in my area are trapped and sterilized . Feeding helps reduce the hunting by cats but the instincts can never be fully stopped . Only a fool would think so .
@Galahad says the guy using RUclips 🙄 you kill too just by living
Dobbelt standard or no standard at all right 👍
More like the haters of cats are dumb Australia ppl
Not only Australia mate, I love scrolling for youtube comments and for every retarded cat lover comment I decide to kill one more, so when I do pest control I like to think that cat slaves are responsible for their deaths, not me lol
@@fazekittyyt9887 and that means one for you buddy, thank you for protecting our local wildlife
A few years ago in Melb they banned cats from being outside, its made a huge difference to the number of birds.
Yes. I see it too when I visiting my cousin at there.
Well i would rathes see cats around .They do not compete for the fruit that i like
@@williampartridge7307 dumbass
If each feral cat lived for 9 years and had to kill 2 native animals each day to survive. The feral cat would claim 6570 native animals over the span of its life. Taking out 100 feral cats could possibly save 657,000 native animals, and killing 1000 feral cats would save over 6.5million native animals.
Those cat haters try to save mice for sure . After they kill cats, I hope the mouse population increase 1000% and destroy all of their crops.
@@CL-mp4vn there is no scientific evidence that shows cats reducing rat populations. Many cities attempted to introduce feral cats to reduce rats populations, but many of these projects failed, if not made the problem worse.
Government statistics that I have seen (not mine) are that cats live an average of 18 years and kill between 9 and 20 creatures every 24 hours. Do the maths. I have and use a trap. It is set now. If I catch a native animal I always release it. If I catch a cat, when I release it, it is not alive. We must save our wildlife regardless of the arguments about who started it, etc. That means we must kill all cats. EVERY cat in my trap is a feral.
how do the cats have been known to kill 1 billion mammals (how such a flat, broad number, and 'mammals' is so vague), but then they have semi-exact figures of 596 mill reptiles and 316 million birds??
@@Defender78 because for every reptile they kill, they kill 2 mammals, and for every bird they kill, they kill 3 mammals.
Mammals are the most common vertebrates. Moreover, there are an estimate of 70 billion mice and rats in the world. No wonder cats kill 1 billion mammals, most of which are rats.
However, I said "most". Because many other mammals such as wombats, opossums, rabbits, you name it, get killed by cats.
Many species, such as the *tiger of Tasmania* went extinct *because* of *cats.*
Most places in many nations have leash laws. Cat owners are the worst at NOT obeying leash laws. They let their cats out a night to roam freely. Very few dog owners do that, some, but much fewer. So, what do they think their cats are doing at night? If you're worried about your cat, put it on a leash! It's just that easy. We put our dog on a cable every time we let her out. It keeps her safe, and local wildlife safe.
@ what island are you talking about? No evidence to back up your claims lmao
@S.G Don't worry about this Lizotte creature. He sounds like a f...wit to me.
Or, you know, just don't own a cat at all if you're in Australia or Nz. Cats don't belong on leaches, that's stupid. Just don't get a cat if you're living in a country with fragile eco systems. It doesn't really matter here in central europe. There are no species that went extinct or are treatened because of cats here.
@@swordfish1986 amen. It really isn’t ‘just that easy’ to leash cats in comparison to dogs - and a comparison really can’t be drawn. Some cats will take to it - certain breeds or with a LOT of dedicated time and training - but it doesn’t come naturally to them, is very far from easy in most cases and a good proportion never do adapt to it.
Clearly a huge problem on kangaroo island and a very sad situation all round. I just wish they hadn’t featured a man in a cat hat flaunting cat-skin caricatures while saying “I value add to them” (sic). Talk about a way to provoke animal lovers and have the authenticity of the issue clouded by emotional reactivity.
Pat cats are also causing problems for people don't own cats. There doing there business in peoples back yard. Why should anyone who chooses not to have cats or pats in general, deal with the crap of people how do chose to have them. Be responsible and make sure that your pat (cats manly) don't cause problems for other people and the environment. Or don't have pats.
I'm a cat lover, but I know as a hunter who does conservation that there's a massive difference between anything domesticated and feral. People who hate hunting should really understand what conservation is, it prevents species going extinct by managing levels of all animals in an area so that numbers remain balanced
Theres a line though. between plain farmer protecting his crops or something and lunatic skinning cats. Guess which ones were trying to take doen
I agree I say kill them all people let them wonder at night I have chickens and rabbits and now three pits the pits love yo kill them and lay them at my back door love it !!!
That's right, nature does the same thing but in todays global climate and environmetn, nature sometimes needs a hand. In Australia where the problem is human caused, the unfortunate victims in the end are cats.
@Novus Ordo Seclorum Ω yeah yeah ur such an environmentalist 🤩
I am a cat lover and would never say what you did, nor would I suffer the scoundrel under your comment.
I made my cat watch this video.
He might turns on you first.
Ur not funny
@@trashbag6406 lol, no u XD RRRAAWR UWU 😹😹😹😹
lol funny
How can you “blur the line”? A feral cat is exactly that. Feral. Pets are pets and unless you want them ending up in a scope sight, lock them up at night. irresponsible cat owners are the issue here.
True. It's safer for the wildlife & the pet cat. Any animal in my neck of the woods that isn't indoors, on a leash or on its owners property is fair 🎯 game!
@Karl S Don't be so ignorant. They're doing things right now. It takes time, money, effort & education. Nothing just happens overnight. You don't just put the genie back in bottle when it's been let out. It's more of managing than extermination at this point anyway.
Illegal cat meat trade, convicts would do anything for little bit of dough. thats all there is to it. All the BS about ecosystem etc, feral cats are actually encouraged world over especially around farms. There are much larger and wilder species of small cats like serval and Savannah that roam freely in harsher climates with endangered species yet no threat to ecosystem. a domestic cat roams becomes a threat?! there are loads of simple humane tried and tested solutions, a simple as a bell collar or birth control. Either you lot are incompetent or murder is just in your DNA.
Unless you plan to eat what is in your scope you are a sick person and to endorse the killing is sick. Get some help
Don't go outside then, or you'll be tortured to death
There is no boundary, there are no native Australian cats, they are ALL feral.
not ALL cats are feral number 1 and number 2 there are many different cats in this world just like there are different humans in this world. get ur facts straight then talk
Saying Cats are _ALL feral_ is *_so stupid_* .
Cats are all feral in australia because aussies hate cats from beginning. They don't want cats as pet.
That is the reason feral cats population goes up.
Cat haters have no heart.
Karma will get back at you australia, mouse population will increase and will destroy all of your crops.
@@babinajim20 Well, ignoramus, let me put this to you: cats are native _nowhere_ in the wild. Not on any continent. Not in any country. They are a product of selective breeding by Man.
@S.G hmm, the definition of "feral" is more that they don't "know" or "socialize" with humans, so are unfriendly to said humans, however I do get your meaning, cats are always predators, that's what I love about my two :).
@@infinitecanadian not wanting to rattle your cage too much, but in fact cats are native in in the wild in Europe, Africa and Asia...
"Cat lovers" started this problem.
@xxaleenazxx Many cat lovers love their cats so much they're willing to trade wildlife for their obsession. I've seen comments of some people suggesting eradicating wildlife animals such as cougars, coyotes, or eagles in order to protect their cats from being attacked and eaten.
@@farfromillusion all tho i kinda agree with killing cats to help the ecosystem, well this is part a mother nature, if a animal cant protect its self it ether evolves or it dies, its part of life, this is whats meant to happen. I'm like 99% sure you use a lot of gas in your life which is global warming, this means your making polar bears die,but how are you suppost to use less gas? not use cars, but that makes life a lot harder so you do it anyway. We all do.
all tho i kinda agree with killing cats to help the ecosystem, well this is part a mother nature, if a animal cant protect its self it ether evolves or it dies, its part of life, this is whats meant to happen. I'm like 99% sure you use a lot of gas in your life which is global warming, this means your making polar bears die,but how are you suppost to use less gas? not use cars, but that makes life a lot harder so you do it anyway. We all do.
also humans brought cats to Australia
@@farfromillusion humans brought cats to Australia btw
I like cats as animals but i absolutely hate what they do to the other animals. Keep your cats indoors.
As a cat owner, I know that feral cats are a danger to domestic cats. I live in a rural area and have regularly shot feral cats that have fought with and injured my pet cats. I began keeping my cats indoors during the late 1990's.
True hero, a big respect to you. No reason not to kill feral cats just because you own domestic ones.
You are a fool. You seem to think cats are only good if tgey are domestic
It’s like Europeans going to Australia and start killing the aborigines
@@-Muhammad_Ali- you are not Australian. So shut up. Feral are invasive species and threatening native Aussie Species
@faloxaxs nobody care about rats. The rats not threatening native species.
I can understand some may argue taming the cats is more humane. Great idea. Except it takes forever to tame millions of feral cats. And the amount of the food to feed millions of feral cats is astronomical. That's why damage is done. So many feral cats need to eat some much food. No difference than the recent locust plague when they show up and eat everything edible for them in the path.
Thank you for putting this out there so more people can understand why there aren't many solutions to the problem!
The problem is. Taming a feral is almost not possible. It took many generations to domesticate them. So just catching em and trying to tame them isnt going to be easy
Truth
Complete eradication needed of feral cats
In Korea, the natural ecosystem is being destroyed because of wild cats. Cats that used to live in the city center move to the mountains and forests to eat wild birds and small creatures such as squirrels. The main reason this has happened is that more and more people are providing temporary shelters and food for homeless cats. Cats, which have grown in numbers due to their fertility, are eventually entering nature and disrupting the food chain.
remember cat owners letting your cat roam around freely without a collar marks it a feral and legally shot
yep. I do the same with dogs. any on my property are shot.
Wrong
Sicko
It is also legal to trap cats that are roaming and put them down
@ I'd guess his definition of feral is "any cat or dog that's on his land"😂
Sadly, no alternative ... 100% supportive
The cat in the hat ? Nah mate, the cat IS the hat !
TF2 reference? Maybe?.... ¿¿¿¿????
I get that reference
@@crunchbucket3derham951 shhhh let us have our fun party pooper
Good one!
I would pay top dollar for a hat like that
Who else wants to take a trip to Australia and have a little target practice
Texas has feral hog tourism now so why not. I think it would be great sport.
Sure start running puss
I'm game!!!
Sam Stoddard there's good shooting in the US
🙋
Why not set up huge feeding pits for these things to attract them to a large area then have 20 to 30 people sit there and pick off as many as they can? Do this all over the continent every few days for a year. Their numbers will dwindle pretty quick.
That's actually a pretty good strategy. Usually hunters for deer and boar put out food plots just like that, and I guess it's easier than having to walk around for miles looking for signs of cats.
That...actually is a pretty good plan
Its called ambushing them them ;)
I live in outback Australia and this idea, although good, just doesn’t work. We will soon have to start poisoning them
Cats are still classed as Feral in the UK, I have no qualms that the Australia's first people and the Torres Strait Islanders are hunting them, WE introduced them and we should be actively removing them.
Yes now they have to suffer because of us
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@@doaadaraz185 lets make a sport of it. Have a sanctioning body and all. Then we could have it on Wide World of Sports every Saturday right before Helicopter Pig Shootin League from Texas.
That would be nice. We need help
@S.G ...only if you like keeping prisoners.
Who else came here from the mice plague in Australia video?
mouse plagues have been happening ever since the introduction of house mice here, house mouse plague outbreaks are triggered by a period of dry followed by rain and a good crop yield which causes the mice to breed suddenly, when the grain is harvested the mice that were once hiding in the fields move in, house mice have multiple avoidance adaptions towards cats, native wildlife don't, cats are not efficient predators of mice but native dasyurid predators, raptors, owls and snakes are, but many of those are also predated by cats, there is no relationship between cat culls and mouse plagues, mouse plagues have occurred long before the idea of culling feral predators was even a thing, but there is a relationship between cat culling and a double in numbat and other critical weight range marsupial populations
Not me
"Turning cats into hats"
Lmao
Ten years ago I remember birds singing all the time. Now not a single bird plenty of cats through :(.
Where are you? We have a shitload of birds here. Especially predatory birds.
The Aus govt should encourage American hunters to come and help eradicate this menace instead of shooting animals in Africa
I kinda agree with that, reason for this is that trophy hunting can actually help conservation efforts (weird and horrible I know) I highly recommend a video about trophy hunting from Adam ruins everything. Good idea though hehehe.
Americans are too busy shooting feral hogs!
Don't see why, what's wrong with giving a few of their own people a couple of rifles, pay them to go out and do it, maybe give them their gun license if they want it afterwards or both pay and gun license...
the màkina grower , even better give employment to local Aussies
Who's here after the mice plague?
I am. After having a bunch of idiots spam my replies to people who think introducing more invasive species will solve the mouse problem in Australia.
It's about as smart as being a firefighter and thinking that the solution is to fight fire with fire. No, you're just introducing more fire.
Many of them think they know better and have no idea what a problem invasive species are in Australia or how fragile Australia's ecosystem really is.
Mee
@@Thor.Jorgensen At least, that would keep the livestock of the farmers safe.
@@manik_abdallah You mean cats would?
No, they wouldn't. Right now there are more feral cats in Australia than there have ever been before, and they have had no impact on the population of mice.
The population of both house mice and cats in Australia has both increased, not decreased. Cats contributed nothing but in killing native species.
I'm a cat lover myself but I don't mind this since feral cats r a pain in the ass for native animals
Respect
all tho i kinda agree with killing cats to help the ecosystem, well this is part a mother nature, if a animal cant protect its self it ether evolves or it dies, its part of life, this is whats meant to happen. I'm like 99% sure you use a lot of gas in your life which is global warming, this means your making polar bears die,but how are you suppost to use less gas? not use cars, but that makes life a lot harder so you do it anyway. We all do.
You're not a cat lover.
@@katula14 Are you?
@@suchomimustenerensis5302 Yes I love cats wholeheartedly, why do you ask?
House cats are tiny tigers that live in your home. They are not domesticated.
By definition, they are domesticated though.
@@thecaynuck4694 No, they do not. CGP grey has a video on domestication. Cats are solitary and do not typically recognize any sort of leadership. We call them domesticated, but if a few kittens were born in the wild and met a human later in life, they would not see them as a friend or owner. They're quite aggressive. But dogs are a different story.
@@arandomguest0089 So then that would mean they are "wild animals" and can live in nature naturally.
@@thecaynuck4694 Yes...in their former home environments...in foreign environments, they just kill a lot of small organisms, even for fun, and that's no bueno. That means they are not "domesticated", They are only "tame".
@@arandomguest0089 they dont kill for fun. the pray is a sacrifice for the dom cat in the group and often is that "cat" the human owner. because cats are like dogs, live in a group and one of them is the leader. so you can train a cat like dog. at least is it at my case for 4 cats
I didn't realize what a problem Feral's were until I saw this!
5:21 Turning cats into hats 😂😂😂
It's not that funny bro THAT CAT IS DEAD AND YOU THINK ITS FUNNY
think feral cats need to be eliminated
@@mister_fantastic_official yummy cat
Ngl cat hats made from feral cats sounds nice
@@mister_fantastic_official they’re not pets they’re feral they’re being killed for good reason and that is that they’re killing loads of native animals I mean honestly did you not even watch the video?
Cats have the highest catch rate in the world, out of any animal. It's almost 40%, if you were the size of a mouse, your cat would hunt you down. When you play a game with you cat, it's mostly catching something, like a razor or some twig little toy. You're making you cat a better hunter without even realizing it.
These people are just trying to protect the animals that are native to their country. Cat lovers around the world threaten throw death threats at them. Grow up.
Feral dogs in India either or released pet snakes in Florida keep your damn pets indoors
40% is not even close to the highest hunting success rate of any animal
@@scatman9166 I think the dragonfly is above 90%.
I am grateful for these hunters of feral cats. My tiel's relatives come from Down Under. I want to see them live on as a species.
Then I hope you enjoy your mouse soup now :)
I hope you love jerry and mickey
They destroyed ferel cats...and now suffering from plague ....nature op
It’s not nature. Both cats and mice are introduced species. Also mice plague has always been a problem since the mouse was introduced to Australia in the late 1700s.
@@LadyScaper "Both cats and mice are introduced species" You complain about introducing. If the ancestors of the current Australians had not been introduced to Australia... they would not suffer from rats right now.
@@LadyScaper That the British prisoners brought over after they were thrown out of England. You all just love to kill things off eh? Welp, now you will poison them, which will poison your water supply and food supply. Great job!
NYC has so many stray cats but still have a major rat problem so cats do not solve or lesser the rats population much.
Seeing this makes me glad to live in Canada. Feral cats are eaten by wolves or coyotes. They don't last long here. wolverines and fishers help with that too.
Australia, you need beavers there! They can do wonders to revers desertification
Natural cycle. Lunatic mental people who skin and torture for fun isnt natural.
@RATHALOS me when I cry^
@@bigperry1521 but the cats aren't part of the natural cycle of Australia are they?
You might want to look into what introducing beavers did to southern Argentina... It's not pretty.
@@bigperry1521 they don’t torture
I came here after I saw the video of Australia's mice plague.
Yeah me too.
mouse plagues have been happening ever since the introduction of house mice here, house mouse plague outbreaks are triggered by a period of dry followed by rain and a good crop yield which causes the mice to breed suddenly, when the grain is harvested the mice that were once hiding in the fields move in, house mice have multiple avoidance adaptions towards cats, native wildlife don't, cats are not efficient predators of mice but native dasyurid predators, raptors, owls and snakes are, but many of those are also predated by cats, there is no relationship between cat culls and mouse plagues, mouse plagues have occurred long before the idea of culling feral predators was even a thing, but there is a relationship between cat culling and a double in numbat and other critical weight range marsupial populations
People in a nutshell
**Killing cockroaches* people:Meh
**Killing feral cats** people:OMG THAT'S ILLEGAL :((((((
all tho i kinda agree with killing cats to help the ecosystem, well this is part a mother nature, if a animal cant protect its self it ether evolves or it dies, its part of life, this is whats meant to happen. I'm like 99% sure you use a lot of gas in your life which is global warming, this means your making polar bears die,but how are you suppost to use less gas? not use cars, but that makes life a lot harder so you do it anyway. We all do.
@@DTermination71 cats are not native to Australia.
people:
Omg the cat killed the rare animals for food we must demolish them!
Also people:
*oH YeAH I WoULd LiKE tO DeSTrOy A WHole EcoSySTeM,WhO cARes!? thEy JusT sOme MinDleSs aNImaLs*
Cat in a nutshell
*killing mice. People: it’s a god gift to protect us from plague!
*killing birds. people:it’s devil in furs!
@@DTermination71 that's kinda dumb tbh
There are 32 feral cats housed in my friends neighborhood there few Song birds now. Black Birds monitor the cats from the trees. They call out and warn the other animals. Her English garden was magical/ Enchanted with the different songbirds. Now they stay away or are dead, I know this because when I weed I find little piles of Feathers with a bird's head. In the morning the Birds sang so loud it would wake you up. Sit in the garden with the Sweet predawn air having Tea watching and listening to the Birds. Great way to start the Day. All gone now.
Here cats are protected as pets. So hunters cant shoot em. Lots of owners sadly go with the: but my cat doesn't kill I keep it well fed mentality or the: its just natural for cats, you cant keep em inside all the time. Same with causing issues with pissing and crapping everywhere.
Dont get me wrong I like cats. In the home or in a fenced off yard. Our dog and indoorcat get along quite well. But our dog gets proper mad at strange cats in the yard. And I will never stop her from chasing them out. If she ever catches one... Oh well its just the dogs nature right?
Why do we call them "street cats?" Call them what they are; "invasive species." You never here Floridians using the term "street python"
@KillerR59 True, but they're still invasive, and they still interfere with native wildlife. They all have the same effect on biodiversity.
@@UmeshKumar-um7ze Not fully. If you eradicate all the feral cats, the numbers of rats would go really high. Imagine all the disease that rats brings. Cats exist for a reason. They do help to balance the ecosystems.
@@cathaaaa7236 I`ve seen rats size of a cat. You really think they will hunt them ?
Cath Aaaa We don’t need to use feral cats for rat control. Other animals like dogs or even ferrets can kill rats as well.
@@cathaaaa7236 Tell that to the 33 species that were hunted to extinction by invasive cats.
In Australia cat owners a just selfish .
And you're just selfish to
@@lorimcclaskey6535 one more dead cat because of your comment, I will name it lori in your honor...thanks for keeping our local wildlife safe!
@@lorimcclaskey6535 Typical cat lover. They are stupid they don't even use the correct _too_
Biggest issue is that they are difficult to shoot. They are small, agile, and primary seen at night. I personally have only shot two whilst out hunting deer. And believe you me when i see them they can't get a bullet fast enough.
This is a reminder to keep your pet cats indoors/on leash. While they may have not gone feral, they’re still a danger to native wildlife wherever you live. It’s irresponsible, and harms native wildlife. It’s sad there are still cat owners who prioritize their cat’s “happiness” over their neighborhood ecosystem, and then make up stupid excuses.
Back in the native range of cats (Sub Saharan Africa ) there population was kept in check bye lions cheetahs leopards wild dogs ratels and hyena’s eating them pretty rarely, they avoided most bye being nocturnal.
Dingos are the only predator left and they technically arent originally native, the only true native predator Australia had was the thylacine but humans killed them off.
@@bowl3864 Only the European wildcat and the Eurasian lynx.
The native range of the domestic cat ancestors is the middle east, not sub-Saharan Africa, that's a different subspecies.
Them: I am an animal lover
Me: That's nice, what animal?
Them: Cats and dogs
Me: 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Double standards.
btw are you the one who killed 2 people for owning cats?
Its okay if you're a cat or dog lover, as long if you approve the removal of invasive cats or dogs.
The lines are not blurred between feral and domesticated cats. One is out in the wild and one is on your property.
Exactly, I don't see why there is even a debate on this.
@@rengeorge9268 because that's not what feral means, people let their domesticated cats roam free outside. Also cats that have been abandoned can often be socialised again. Also whether you think people should be allowed to let their cats run around outside is a different issue
Cats that are not under control are feral. Dead meat.
Got rid of the feral cats and now they have a mice plague.
Wrong. They've been having mice plagues for over 150 years. Cats do not help remove any mice from Australia.
mouse plagues have been happening ever since the introduction of house mice here, house mouse plague outbreaks are triggered by a period of dry followed by rain and a good crop yield which causes the mice to breed suddenly, when the grain is harvested the mice that were once hiding in the fields move in, house mice have multiple avoidance adaptions towards cats, native wildlife don't, cats are not efficient predators of mice but native dasyurid predators, raptors, owls and snakes are, but many of those are also predated by cats, there is no relationship between cat culls and mouse plagues, mouse plagues have occurred long before the idea of culling feral predators was even a thing, but there is a relationship between cat culling and a double in numbat and other critical weight range marsupial populations
@@Thor.Jorgensen don't you watch the video?, at 4:28 you see clearly the cat eating mice
@@nyancat6566 I repeat: Cats do not help remove any mice from Australia.
Can you count the number of mice? Can you determine what species of mice they are? Are they native Australian mice, or are they the invasive house mice?
And regardless of what anecdotal evidence you can put forth, over 388 native Australian species are destined to go extinct unless cats are made completely extinct in Australia.
And don't you worry. Cats will still exist in the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Africa.
Dohhh! 🤦🏾♂️
I detest what cats do to our wildlife here in Washington State..
My sympathy to everyone in Australia!
What do they do? I’m not from there
I’ve dispatched 14 from my property in the 9 months since I moved in
Good man, would love to help you if that’s possible
Anyone who thinks that their cute little puddy tat doesn't kill anything around the home is dreaming.
When tom is gone, jerry have all the fun. 😁
The new doctor Seuss. "The cat IS the hat".
Cats by law should only be bred by licensed breeders and no cat should be sold by breeders unless it's been desexed.
Either that or ban cats completely.
This is actually mandatory here in Belgium since a few years. Although you still see lots of free kittens up on facebook and the like because people cant be bothered to neuter the cats they allready own. And hence those cats arent neutered or chipped either. When people find a cat they bring them to the pound. Where it gets chipped and neutered.
@@jeroengoetstouwers8574 chipped？
"don't introduce speciest that aren't native to an area "
Aborigin's : "are you kidding me?"
To be fair Aboriginals want introduced animals gone too.
@@Joshdyisdifh you miss the joke🤷
My neighborhood has a problem with stray cats because of one nearby crazy elderly lady, who, according to her son-in-law, "adopts" every free cat and kitten she can, then purposefully underfeeds them in the mistaken belief that these poor cats will catch more rodents. I've been forced to buy a trap; but, some cats won't enter a trap.
Just topped by cane toads as our most destructive feral. I say that because cats can be controlled somewhat by hunting, trapping and baiting and toads can't. Hate them with a passion but still could never be cruel to them.. .22 to the head not cruel ! One sad thing I saw on Harry's Practice was Cathy Freeman complaining about her cat bringing home wildlife ! " My country " but I'll let my cat run free at night ! Remember cat lovers, the moment they step off the veranda they are feral !
Exactly right. ANY cat that gets into my trap is feral. ANY domestic pussy cat let out of the house is a killer. Why are cat lovers so blind?
And I hate you with a passion
@@lorimcclaskey6535 Good. Then you know how we feel about animals that kill our wildlife. Stupid woman.
Cain toads can be controlled to some degree but not enough of us running around with a 22 or pellet gun.. there used to be heaps of toads around here but not so many these days
@@markshort9098 a 22 is fine, but a pellet gun is definitely not humane..
Barry Green is a legend at killing these thangs.
He probably single handedly saved millons of animals just by doing what he does. Massive respect for him
@DOOK_NUKEM_4D he's saving native animals from feral cats
I'm addining an additional comment to my previous one. The last cat shot on the property prior to my parents selling it came in at over nine kilos!. Its fur matted, no ears (probably due to fighting with other cats) One of the nastiest, most aggressive things I've seen. My Jack Russel wasnt scared by any dog!; but! He kept his distance from that thing! We have a serious problem......
9kg yikes!! Good job, keep it up!
Uffff 9 kg? Honey, bring me my .50 rifle
Can i help i hunt deer in vic
Have to cull it.
barry green you da man ! 1400 cats ! you should get an award
I guess if I ever move to Australia, my cats will be forever indoors
Your cats should always be indoor. They are invasive everywhere not just Australia.
Your cats should be forever indoors wherever you are.
At least at night time. I converted a disused aivairy into a comfortable catotel where they had food, shelter and a good amount of space, for night time and for when we went out for an hour or more. No more vet's bills for attending to infected cysts from when they fang each other during their 2 a.m. parliamentary sessions.
I know people attaching little bells to their collars. Don't know if it helps.
Ronald van Kemenade doesn’t work for long, they eventually learn how to move and stalk prey without letting the bell ring.
2021: mice population increased, eating farmers crops, accompanied with drought and covid19. Are we going to welcome another black death? It happened because of cat massacre which led to mice overpopulation in the past. Really, don't mess with nature. Everything is balanced for a purpose and try to LEARN from history.
Ik ik, I was just looking for this comment
We do da same with mice. GG
@Kingshuk Monsur
Plan B set a bounty.
"2021: mice population increased." Wrong. The mice population has been increasing ever since 1788.
"Are we going to welcome another black death?" Wrong. The black death came with fleas and other parasites that rode on the backs of mostly rats, not mice.
"It happened because of cat massacre" Wrong. As I said, the mice problem started in 1788. It didn't just happen yesterday just because you saw it on the news.
"Really, don't mess with nature" Finally, something right. Don't introduce species that aren't native to an area. Neither house mice nor cats are native to Australia. Don't mess with nature by introducing them to Australia.
"Everything is balanced for a purpose and try to LEARN from history." Start by picking up a history book first.
mouse plagues have been happening ever since the introduction of house mice here, house mouse plague outbreaks are triggered by a period of dry followed by rain and a good crop yield which causes the mice to breed suddenly, when the grain is harvested the mice that were once hiding in the fields move in, house mice have multiple avoidance adaptions towards cats, native wildlife don't, cats are not efficient predators of mice but native dasyurid predators, raptors, owls and snakes are, but many of those are also predated by cats, there is no relationship between cat culls and mouse plagues, mouse plagues have occurred long before the idea of culling feral predators was even a thing, but there is a relationship between cat culling and a double in numbat and other critical weight range marsupial populations
I've always believed feral cats should be removed from the environment and over the years i've done a lot of removals
Many people do, just "forgot" they did it 😂
fine. make sure you do it humanly
@ blah blah blah. They kill much more you "intelligent" person.
Im a cat owner but I suppor the. Eradication of feral cats in Australia
It seems like the amount of rats and rabbits might be why they’re also loosing a war against all those feral cats
Devastating, oh my. Humans introduced them into the habitat and through the centuries the problem escalated to such an extent it turned into a continental eco-tragedy, true chaos, oh my.
04:24 lol so this is why "mice plague " is happening
I watch documentary about cats in Turkey (they got so many cats there), and on the comment section say most Turks never see mouse in their entire life or rarely, i hv cats at my backyard and 2 days ago i saw one of them chase a freaking snake, my cats is a hero for that
@@staypetty9903 yes true they hunt mice for fun , but they hunt birds too which is bad
@@evergreen3291 turkish cat is too lazy to catch birds, they just sit in front of cafe while staring looking down at you.
Try reading a map
I use to have rats every night in my kitchen, since I adopted a kittie my house is totally free of it, never see one.
The flies were eating that man
Because his house is a den of Beelzebub, naturally.
Cats should be kept indoors if you care about them
Yes!! That’s exactly it. I love cats and I so understand the Derek cat problem that’s going on. If I had a cat I would keep it in my home forever till it’s last days. I don’t get how people let them roam.. like yea I feel bad if the cat wants to be outdoors but at that point then I’d have to give it up and let go.
1 year later : mice plague in Australia.
I'm shocked, absolutely shocked 😲
Exactly. Next up, the geniuses are now going to poison themselves to kill the mice! Just brilliant! 😂
If this continue, Black Death 2 might be happen
HAHAHA! Well deserved. Rabbits, mice, rats.
@Decus @MrMojo Risin mouse plagues have been happening ever since the introduction of house mice here, house mouse plague outbreaks are triggered by a period of dry followed by rain and a good crop yield which causes the mice to breed suddenly, when the grain is harvested the mice that were once hiding in the fields move in, house mice have multiple avoidance adaptions towards cats, native wildlife don't, cats are not efficient predators of mice but native dasyurid predators, raptors, owls and snakes are, but many of those are also predated by cats, there is no relationship between cat culls and mouse plagues, mouse plagues have occurred long before the idea of culling feral predators was even a thing, but there is a relationship between cat culling and a double in numbat and other critical weight range marsupial populations
@@Lord_of_Snels To say that cats are not efficient hunters of mice is simply and completely false. In addition one can't just look at the number of mice killed per animal, but by the animal population as a whole. Cats breed rapidly, snakes and owls do not. Plagues occur due to exponential breeding under the conditions you've described, and another suitably prolific and rapid breeder is necessary such that the population curves of the predator species do not lag too far behind that of the mouse population in the early stages of a plague. Owls and snakes can hunt as many mice individually as they like, their numbers will not swell with mice numbers in short order the way they need to for sufficient downward pressure on mouse numbers to be maintained.
Wherever crops such as wheat have been produced, mice have been a problem, and wherever mice have been a problem, cats both domestic and feral have been utilized to manage that problem. This has been true for 12000 years since the dawn of agriculture. That Australian farmers haven't recognized this frankly puzzles me.
Now I recognize that cats are an invasive species in Australia, but so are mice, and if you try to limit the numbers of one of those invasive species but not the other invasive species that is its main prey, then you just swap the numbers of one invasive species for another. Cull feral cats if you want, but only when mice have been fully and completely eradicated from the continent, which let's face it, isn't going to happen because it's essentially impossible. The damage was done when they were brought over, now it must simply be managed.
Could this explain why Australia now has a severe mice plague?
BINGO!!! LOL 😂
Yesssssir
no, not at all, mouse plagues have been happening ever since the introduction of house mice here, house mouse plague outbreaks are triggered by a period of dry followed by rain and a good crop yield which causes the mice to breed suddenly, when the grain is harvested the mice that were once hiding in the fields move in, house mice have multiple avoidance adaptions towards cats, native wildlife don't, cats are not efficient predators of mice but native dasyurid predators, raptors, owls and snakes are, but many of those are also predated by cats, there is no relationship between cat culls and mouse plagues, mouse plagues have occurred long before the idea of culling feral predators was even a thing, but there is a relationship between cat culling and a double in numbat and other critical weight range marsupial populations
It’s not because of culling feral cats.
@@Lord_of_Snels what a bot, pasting the same bull everywhere.
tell me a raptor that is able to prey on rat and other mice and yet a cat can kill.
owl? Owls kill cats, not the other way around. Foxes kill cats, coyotes do, raccoons might.
Europe went through this centuries ago. If no cat is truly native to Australia then do what you have to do, but stop the bull about cats hunting them all.
And still there are cat lovers that call cats “Angels”.
Keep your cats inside people, I do, and they live very happy lives.
Give them toys and attention, good food and they will be extremely happy, and not able to exacerbate the already out of control feral cat problem, remember, these are African wildcats and we dont have the same predators they do in Africa to keep them in check!
To think this could have all been avoided if cat people where responsible and didn't let their cats roam free. Its a pet it should be on a leash if going outside.
Australia : now mouse vs man
Feralcats: I am not surprised
mouse plagues have been happening ever since the introduction of house mice here, house mouse plague outbreaks are triggered by a period of dry followed by rain and a good crop yield which causes the mice to breed suddenly, when the grain is harvested the mice that were once hiding in the fields move in, house mice have multiple avoidance adaptions towards cats, native wildlife don't, cats are not efficient predators of mice but native dasyurid predators, raptors, owls and snakes are, but many of those are also predated by cats, there is no relationship between cat culls and mouse plagues, mouse plagues have occurred long before the idea of culling feral predators was even a thing, but there is a relationship between cat culling and a double in numbat and other critical weight range marsupial populations
@lord of snails well said
I've been binge watching these,had no idea of Australia's varied feral animal problems.Also didn't know there were no barbers😄
There are barbers, I know of at least 2 in WA.
You can sometimes find barbers in the cities and towns, but not in the outback. If they go out there, the feral cats eat them.
Have lived in Outbackistan (outback Australia) all my life. Cats numbers are hard to reduce as they are very difficult to shoot and poison. They are the most efficient killing machines and I wish we could eradicate them
My Bengal cat has such a high pray drive she spends her whole waking ours stalking birds from the windows. Shes never been outside and wouldn't ever unless I had a secure cat run. She would cause so much damage if allowed to roam
The cats are not at fault, it's humans who have released domesticated cat's into the wild. I have no problem with the Australian people killing these feral cat's. I myself have a cat but never allow it to roam outside the house. Some people are just not responsible, they should not be allowed to have pets or children. 😁
It is true that we humans are to blame for having brought them to that country / continent ... and that is why it is our obligation to also end that plague brought by the colonists a long time ago now. Regardless of how this came to be, those wild cats must be exterminated.
praise to the ABC for showing this
Barry your fantastic think of all the wildlife you've saved good on yah
Now are how they going to deal with those demonic mice and rats swam
mouse plagues have been happening ever since the introduction of house mice here, house mouse plague outbreaks are triggered by a period of dry followed by rain and a good crop yield which causes the mice to breed suddenly, when the grain is harvested the mice that were once hiding in the fields move in, house mice have multiple avoidance adaptions towards cats, native wildlife don't, cats are not efficient predators of mice but native dasyurid predators, raptors, owls and snakes are, but many of those are also predated by cats, there is no relationship between cat culls and mouse plagues, mouse plagues have occurred long before the idea of culling feral predators was even a thing, but there is a relationship between cat culling and a double in numbat and other critical weight range marsupial populations
@@Lord_of_Snels
Cats are not efficient predators of mice?
What?!
@@think-islam-channel bro these stupids won't understand. There cruelty is 100% ok and legal for them. They think they are smarter than God and so they suffer the consequences.
Remember when china killed sparrows back in 19's, they had to face locusts attack. God will always punish them for killing innocent and hell is prepared for them.
Keep your cat in house.
You stay in your house forever and you will see how you will feel
i put my cats in the house forever because they wont go anywhere
I had no idea about the toxoplasmosis. I hate cats even more🤬
@KillerR59 Wrong. Domestic cats can get it too. I was a vet tech in the Army and I caught toxoplasmosis (sickest I have ever been in my life). I was only around pets in the vet clinic.
And I hate you too
@@lorimcclaskey6535 Its just the feral cats not the domestic ones being culled because they are a threat to extinction of natural wildlife. Don't get ya nickers in a knot they're not coming for your pets.
@KillerR59 toxo is carried by rats and mice as well and human's can get it also
New Jersey, used to have a colony of feral cats in my neighborhood, after the cats were cleared out I started seeing wild rabbits in my area.
Feral cats make great hats
Barry Green, you are my absolute hero. What an Aussie legend.
5:00 the aussie tiger king starts here
Wow that's a ridiculously high number of feral cats...
Yeah it's a better estimate of 2 million, 6 million is a bit exaggerated
I'm a New Zealander, I like cats and HATE ferals.
I started shooting ferals, but one day I nearly shot my neighbours cat.
I now live trap, hose down the locals (including my own), but shoot the ferals.
The problem is most people have NO IDEA as to how many native birds and
reptiles are killed by just ONE cat.
Catching and neutering is NOT the answer!
Unless a cat is WELL fed 95% of cats will still kill.
Like dogs, cats need to be under control in their property and if taken out
need to be on a leash.
Wow! I had no idea that even in remote areas there are still cats.
If predictor and prey evolved together, prey can usually withstand predation. If not, predictor must go.
Frank, what is a predictor?
Feral cats in Texas I believe only may be a problem in the city. Coyotes keep them in check in rural areas.
There are a ton of feral cats in my rural neighborhood. Always trying to get my free range chickens, it's super annoying.
@@bullfrogjay4383 Kill them, then. No reason to hesistate. Kill them like you kill mosquitos.
Introduce the coyote to aus?
@@j-5087 Good idea in concept, bad idea in practice. Coyotes will cause a lot more chaos and destruction with feral cats than anything else.
Well, I know where my charity donations are going from now on.
Excellent
How many native Animal's do politician's kill?
Two words: Mice Plague
Illegal cat meat trade, convicts would do anything for little bit of dough. thats all there is to it. All the BS about ecosystem etc, feral cats are actually encouraged world over especially around farms. There are much larger and wilder species of small cats like serval and Caracal that roam freely in harsher climates close proximity with endangered species and civilization, yet no threat to ecosystem. a domestic cat roams becomes a threat?! there are loads of simple humane tried and tested solutions, a simple as a bell collar or birth control. Either you lot are incompetent or murder is just in your DNA.
@@monadgreyman9094 do you live in Australia?
@@tonyromano6220 why, do you want to "kill" me as well?
Feral Cats carry : Salmonella, Toxoplasmosis, Rabies along with numerous parasites such as Ringworms etc. etc.
There’s no discussion to be made here, get lost.
I can’t “kill you” but I would be more than happy to smack you between your eyes.
(you can choose to remain ignorant and try to justify and white wash your crimes) but the reality is that Cats are one of the only species who existed since the time of Dinosaurs. They exists on every continent and climate. And the reason they are able to do that is by "sustainable"
hunting of their pray. If their pray were extinct, so would they. That's how nature made them (unlike dogs and other animals who kill in a frenzied and for sport), they only take what they need, one pray at a time and too after several unsuccessful attempts. Hence, cats aren't used for rat/mice/hare culling like dogs and ferrets. They are the most humane hunters, nearly always going for the throat of the prey and only eat when it's passed, unlike dogs and other animals who start eating prey alive. They are also the most naturist and hygienic hunters always burring their waste in the ground fertilizing it in the process to assist the growth of vegetation which in turn encourages grown of other wildlife.
about time the uk woke up tp the issues cats cause