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HOW MANY BIRDS AND OTHER ANIMALS DO ‘OUTDOOR CATS’ KILL?

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It’s a no-brainer that cats who are kept indoors are safe from the many dangers
that roaming and “indoor/outdoor” cats face every time they set paw
outside—infectious and deadly diseases, speeding cars, and cruel people, to name
just a few. But keeping cats indoors makes life easier and safer for birds and
other animals, too. Cats who are left outside unsupervised kill animals in
colossal numbers—an estimated average of 14.7 billion birds and other animals
every year in the U.S. alone.



If you allow your cat to roam outside, they may occasionally bring home a mouse
or bird, but that’s just a fraction of the animals they actually maim and leave
to suffer and die. And when you multiply that by the estimated 154 million cats
in the U.S., the death toll adds up.

According to a Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute study, roaming cats
are responsible for the deaths of an estimated average of 2.4 billion birds and
12.3 billion mammals every year in the U.S. alone.

Yes. That’s BILLION with a B.


CATS KILL SQUIRRELS AND OTHER SMALL MAMMALS

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That massive death toll makes cats a bigger threat to wildlife than nearly any
other human-linked cause.



Another study found that cats kill far more animals than their guardians
realize. In that study, cats wore tiny video cameras around their necks, which
documented that they killed an average of 2.1 animals every week, but brought
home less than one out of every four.



Cats often “play” with their victims, prolonging the animals’ terror and
suffering. Moreover, cats don’t always kill animals outright, sometimes leaving
them maimed and suffering from horrific injuries.



Feral cat colonies are especially deadly. Native birds and small animals aren’t
equipped to deal with the large concentration of non-native predators that comes
with such a colony.


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CATS KILL BILLIONS OF BIRDS

© Native Songbird Care and Conservation

Cats will kill whatever they can get their paws on, including endangered birds
like piping plovers Florida scrub-jays, California least terns, and many species
of hummingbirds, who are already facing an uphill battle for survival.

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Migratory birds are especially vulnerable when they’re trying to rest during
exhausting journeys of hundreds or even thousands of miles.

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Fledglings may spend days on the ground before they’re able to fly, making them
easy victims for free-roaming cats.




CATS DON’T BELONG OUTDOORS

In order to be responsible, conscientious neighbors to birds, squirrels, and
other wildlife (who were here long before most of us and our cats), we need to
get serious about the following:

 * Spaying and neutering cats (and not just our own—help friends and neighbors
   get their cats sterilized, too)
 * Cracking down on people who abandon cats, which contributes to feral cat
   colonies
 * Supporting animal shelters that maintain an open-door policy (i.e., accepting
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   cats)
 * Encouraging public officials to pass laws requiring that all cats be spayed
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 * Keeping cats safe indoors

Check out our tips on keeping cats enriched inside and allowing them to explore
the outdoors with your supervision in a secure enclosure or with a leash and
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