Althought cats are seen as cute, cuddily animals in the eyes of society, scientists have determined that they are a lot dealier then people originally thought. Scientists from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and the Fish and Wildlife Service estimated that domestic cats in the United States — both the pets that spend part of the day outdoors and the strays and ferals that never leave it — kill a median of 2.4 billion birds and 12.3 billion mammals a year, most of them native mammals like shrews, chipmunks and voles rather than introduced pests like the Norway rat. The kill rates are two to four times higher than previous years. Cats are now the primary cause for such a high rate (higher than pestices and human activity such as automobile accidents). And to add to the damage they are causing, they are fighting with dogs and causing accidents when they dart under cars. There are roughly 80 million feral cats that are causing trouble in the enviroment. How to deal with the cats is causing trouble as well because animal advocates do not want to see posion being used yet we cant let the cats keep destroying wildlife. The solution? Adoption.
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