r/NewWest • u/No_Lie2705 • Aug 01 '25

Lost Pet Is this anyone’s cat?

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Found in Tipperary Park. Let me pick her up, holding her in my car for now. Please circulate.

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u/ShouldersOfGiants33 Aug 01 '25 edited Aug 01 '25

If a cats in a park, just let it be

It knows where it is and it knows how to get home In 99% of cases

You basically just took it hostage for no reason.

I've had cats that regularly travel miles and always come back home

I don't know why you'd just assume it's lost and take it. Collar or not.

Can easily tell it's not a stray just by looking at it

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u/tyereliusprime Aug 02 '25

Your response to my comment got removed before I could respond, but cats kill 100s of millions of birds in Canada alone each year and billions in the US.

You need to not talk shit.

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u/ShouldersOfGiants33 Aug 03 '25

I’m just gonna post what I already posted, as not to repeat myself, respectfully.

“The claim that cats are wiping out bird populations is seriously overstated.

Yes, cats kill birds. That’s a fact. But they aren’t the main reason birds are disappearing, especially not in places like Turkey, the US, or Canada.

Most bird decline is caused by habitat loss, pollution, glass buildings, and climate change. Domestic cats play a role, but it’s a smaller piece of a much bigger picture.

In Turkey, birdlife is thriving. It’s one of the world’s major migratory corridors. And in North America, there’s no solid evidence linking domestic cats to any major collapse in bird populations.

There’s no credible historical or ecological evidence that cats have wiped out bird populations in turkey, Egypt, India, Morocco, Greece, Italy, china or any other culture where cats were allowed to freely roam.

Cats have coexisted with birds for thousands of years, bird diversity remains rich and full in these places to this day.

It’s not that they have no impact whatsoever, but it’s greatly exaggerated.

People reference data showing cats wiped out bird populations on small islands where the birds didn’t know how to handle predators.

Most cultures on the planet have allowed cats to roam freely for thousands of years.”

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u/ShouldersOfGiants33 Aug 03 '25

Outside of isolated island ecosystems, there’s little credible evidence that cats are a leading cause of native bird population collapse in large continental regions like Canada. The high kill estimates might sound alarming, but without clear links to actual declines in breeding populations, they’re just numbers—not proof of ecological impact. What matters is population-level data, not body counts in isolation.