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Originally Posted by 58thecat
This as with anything in nature needs a balance....cant have 10 thousand cats running on a tropical island and not eat....balance is out of whack....in some areas the balance is just that...balanced.....and then the pendulum swings the other way very little cats and a infestation of mice, birds etc.....balance.
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That's the problem right now - not just Canada but worldwide. There is a significant decline in native songbird populations and the singular greatest mortality factor is cats. Free roaming cats.
I have two yard cats that help to keep the mice at bay - that and a 365 day/yr 24 trap "mouseline". Without the cats the trapline can't keep up. But it was especially hard this spring when a week after the bluebird pair returned the wife found his feathers strewn on the front doorstep. I still see the female around the yard but no other male has shown up and she didn't nest. When the barnswallows were about to fledge we locked the cats in the garage for four days - they are as hard on songbird populations as they are the mice. It is a problem, and ignoring the truth of it won't make it go away.