Birds in city parks benefit as coyotes stalk cats. But, hey, it’s best for the cats too-
Feral and stray cats (free roaming cats) are known to take a huge toll on birds, and the number of these small predators is burgeoning. There are perhaps as many as 40-million in the US alone. The number […]
Continue Reading →Study: “The impact of free-ranging cats on wildlife in the United States-“
The Wildlife News has reported earlier on the large number of birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibian, the common cat, felis domesticus, kills. Because cats are so highly regarded by many as pets, a look at their side effects on wildlife makes for intense […]
Continue Reading →Our popular, small, non-native predator kills billions of small animals a year directly and indirectly by disease-
There are close to 80-million pet cats in the United States and over 50-million feral cats — felis domesticus. Unlike other pets that eat meat, cats are pure carnivores. Fortunately, the meat for most the pets comes from […]
Continue Reading →Common human brain parasite Toxoplasma gondii doesn’t just make rats like cats-
It works like this. The protozoan Toxoplasma comes to maturity inside a cat and the cysts are expelled in cat feces. Any cat that lives part of the time outside may be infected. The parasite doesn’t hurt the cat, however.
A rat or […]
Continue Reading →Here is a real threat-
Although anti-wolf people try to scare us with the seldom caught Hydatid disease which is almost entirely spread, by dogs, fox, and coyotes, here is the latest on a very important threat from scat — domestic cat scat — toxoplasmosis gondii.
I have mentioned T. gondii a number of times. […]
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