Don’t Let Your Cat Kill Birds
You won’t see it: many cats do not bring home their kills!
Cats kill billions of birds every year just in North America!
Go to stateofthebirds.org for more information, and work with your local community to adopt bird friendly ordinances.
Every year in the U.K., cats kill half of all baby birds!
33 bird species have gone extinct from cat predation!
Native bird species are declining at an alarming rate!
Even cats with bells and bright collars kill wildlife!
Keep Your Cat Indoors is not just for the birds. You cat will be safer from predators, roads and disease.
A team of 19 North American Scientists from several agencies including the U.S. Fish & Wildlife, the American Bird Conservancy, the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the Smithsonian Institution and other agencies compiled the State of the Birds Report from 2014. The results were peer reviewed by five separate agencies. This 2014 study showed that more than 2.4 BILLION birds are killed every year by outdoor cats, making it the single largest direct cause of bird deaths!
As of 2018, numbers reported from the Humane Society of the United States and PETA report an estimated 155 to 195 million cats in the United States alone. Of this number, approximately 70 million are feral; and many of the owned pets are “outdoor cats.” These numbers represent an explosion that started with a small population just a couple hundred years ago and are expected to keep skyrocketing, thus increasing native small animal deaths.
Even belled, collared or declawed cats kill; and most cat owners do not believe their cat could be one of them. This is a global wildlife crisis and will be solved only with education. It is also the simplest fix we have on this modern assault: Keep Cats Indoors. Cats are instinctive hunters, so it is not their fault. Owners need to be educated to save our native wildlife, including lizards and small mammals, and also to save their outdoor cats from death by cars, dogs, wildlife and disease. Consider a Catio (patio for cats) to give your pet the best of all worlds.
View More info about Cats & Birds from the American Bird Conservancy
