The solution, the study's authors imply, is the continued
mass killing of cats in our nation's shelters.
Not exact matches
By it's very definition, NO -
KILL is effective in stopping the
mass extermination
of cats and dogs in «shelters».
Studies show that the animals caught by predators are generally weaker and more diseased than those
killed by manmade sources.6, 7 One study found that «birds
killed by
cats had significantly lower
mass, fat scores, and pectoral muscle
mass scores» than birds
of the same species
killed by cars or windows.8 These studies indicate that
cats are catching what some biologists refer to as the «doomed surplus» 9 — animals who would not have lived, and so whose death does not affect overall population levels.
Moreover, what the PETA's self - serving press release doesn't say is that PETA in addition to
killing thousands
of animals, PETA continued to champion the
mass killing of pit bulls and community
cats and continued to defend poorly performing shelters.
To get at this critical issue, Baker et al. compared the physical attributes (e.g., muscle
mass score, mean fat score, etc.)
of 86 birds
killed by collisions (e.g., with cars, windows, etc.) to those
of 48 birds
killed by
cats.
Although the authors point out, «the relationship between body
mass and quality (i.e., likelihood
of long - term survival and therefore reproductive potential) in passerines is complex,» they nevertheless conclude that the birds
killed by
cats «were likely to have had poor long - term survival prospects.»
Look at these blogs, numerous since the Stevenson trial: All this talk
of killing, poisoning, calling
cats criminals for walking on plants to pooping in gardens, and calling for their deaths... what about birds, pooping on our windshields, on our sidewalks, taking down airplanes, causing the avian flu that
killed 50 million people 80 yrs ago, and preparing to do the exact same thing again... still are
cat people joking about putting about poison bird seed,
mass extermination
of birds...
1957 — 1960 FoA became the leading force for preventing the births
of too many dogs and
cats and their
mass killings in shelters by administering a nationwide low - cost spay - neuter program to help rescue groups and pet - owners avoid the high costs
of altering.