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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We had a free roaming cat that brought several families mice. When we moved we would get calls to make sure he was ok. He lives indoors now, but if our neighborhood allowed it he’d be outside. Not on topic but another viewpoint. He was once an alley cat - I adopted him once he asked to be a pet. [/quote]

Adopting cats is great. Letting them roam free is not.

The cost of those families of mice is several other small mammals, fledglings and birds a week. And, read the Wikipedia link—cats really aren’t effective at rodent control. Better to get a mousetrap.

And that’s without getting into toxoplasmosis and the annoyance to your neighbors. 
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No. Wikipedia is not a valid resource. Your cat hyper vigilance is manic.  [/quote]

The Wikipedia links to peer-reviewed studies. Cats are pretty useless as rodent control.

What’s manic is the TNR people and lazy cat owners who think fluffy has a right to poop on my lawn and kill the birds at my feeder. Nobody would accept this from dogs. You people need to be called out. [/quote]

This is so angry and weird. No one acts that way and you can’t read minds. Stop. [/quote]

What’s weird about peer-reviewed studies that prove that cats are useless at controlling rats and mice? Are you anti-science? Get a grip.

You TNR and outdoor cat people want to ignore the extensive damage Fluffy does to the ecosystem and to neighbors’ yards. You can call it whatever you want—head in the sand, deliberate ignorance, a bizarre obsession for cats at the expense of other wildlife and neighbors. Doesn’t matter what you call it. It’s so weird—and so wrong. [/quote]

Can you answer ops question? [/quote]

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