This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.City councils often tote their environmentalist ways, doing thing like approving bike lanes, supporting green infrastructure and reducing their water use. But bike lanes don’t save bird lives. Until recently it seems, cities have been willing to look the other way when feline friends are the culprit.
Oil companies, meanwhile, have to payThere is little justice in Canada if you’re a city bird. If we went after roaming cat owners like we did oil companies — which would be the conservationist thing to do — perhaps it would start to level the playing field. Right now, outdoor cats are an environmental externality being taken less seriously than carbon. Climate change is bad, but fewer and fewer birds get to experience it every year because of irresponsible pet owners.
Sounds like Jamie just finished her high school creative writing class
Cats also kill rodents that spread disease.
This writer is irrelevant
Jamie missed out on the millions of evil rodents killed; or the dozens of people shot in Toronto each year for that matter. Perhpas city council does have better things to do.
The rats in the city are a menace fix it
It's also much safer for them. Pet fencing is also good, preferably in a reasonably sized lot or yard.
Louie disagrees with this proposal big time.
The rats and mice will surely support leashing the cats! What an absurd, ridiculous wokie idea.
Also, toxoplamosis is spread mainly by birds, not cats. Even the author's linked article says that. Birds also spread Avian Influenza. Boy, how many of these nutbar cat-haters are there?
Directly from the so-called study: 'In total, cats are estimated to kill...' That's estimated, and they're saying feral cats, not house cats. There are other studies that rebuke these findings and lay the blame on deforestation and mirror-glass skyscrapers.
People kind are a menace lock them up.
.22 LR = solution
I actually have lease my cat to keep the bird shit off her paws. Let’s not even get started on the geese. But she’d prefer to be inside, she thinks Toronto is becoming too dangerous, so there’s that.
A menace? Really? With all that is going on in the world, outdoor cats are the “menace” we need to worry about? Wow.
Any advocates out there ever have mice and rats? No? Thank a cat.
Wait until you see the outdoor RAT population...then you'll change your opinion.
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ever heard the saying 'like herding cats'...gunna put a bounty on all the feral ones too?
Catphobic
Cats in some cities are seriously MENACED themselves by COYOTES. In Vanc.,coyotes travel to the most urbanized 'hoods for sitting-duck easy meals of pets,including in yards.Coyotes are an INVASIVE SPECIES,1st arriving toBC coast 1980s. My cat goes out only w/me w/him.Coyotes,OUT.
Now I know the World has gone crazy!
Between April of 2019 & March 2020 8500 Canadians died awaiting healthcare procedures. Let's, also worry about the thousands of people that needlessly die each year thanks to the broken healthcare system.
Correct.