Keep cats indoors
The State of the Birds Report 2014 tells us that 2.4 billion birds are killed by cats annually in America with 196 million more slaughtered in Canada. That is not even beginning to mention how many small mammals they kill. How do we solve this? Keep cats, an invasive non-native species introduced by humans, indoors. That’s it. I know we have feral cats and that complex problem is very difficult to solve. I have had cats my entire life and have rescued plenty of strays, dealt with colonies, seen many suffer horribly because they live outside and others perish due in grotesque fashion....
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We here at RTPI care a lot about advancing education as we work with children and adults, students and teachers, researchers and communities in a wide variety of programs and initiatives. You can see more here on our education page. We use our website and this blog, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and more to help advance this mission. One group that we have not worked hard enough to educate is one I plan to focus on going forward – the cats. Cats, or Felis catus as some of them prefer to be referred to as, are notoriously difficult students. They dislike having to sit through long classes...
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