Letters May 21: Cats on the prowl; sleepless nights after Vic West arson
300 to 400 million! Think about it: that’s around one million per day, a billion every three years. Are there enough small birds in Canada to sustain this slaughter? I think that, at that rate, we would have run out of birds some years ago. I recently read an article in the Guardian, called “Meaty meals and play stop cats killing wildlife,” about a scientific study done in the United Kingdom, the premise being to understand why some well-fed (but not all) housecats hunt. Their estimate was that cats kill around 100 million animals annually in the U.K., of which 25 per cent are birds....
Source: timescolonist.com