Friend, #AlbertBates wrote this: "Cats have contributed to the #extinction of 63 species of birds, mammals, and #reptiles in the wild and continue to adversely impact a wide variety of other species, including 124 at risk of extinction, such as Piping Plover. Feral and domestic cats kill an estimated 1.3 to 3.7 billion birds and 6.3 to 22.3 billion mammals annually in the US every year, where #songbird populations continue to decline.
2.48 million tons of raw fishery products go to the cat food industry per year. Add dry pet food & 13.5% of the total 39 million tons of wild caught forage fish is eaten by pets. It may seem innocuous because these are considered, at least by the fisherman, as “waste products,” but in fact, that by-catch is a critical food source in the marine food chain. There is a vast, unseen genocide underway. We are destroying the oceans to feed Tabby." https://peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2019/05/what-is-your-climate-pawprint.html #cats#catsofmastodon#pets#dogs#dogsofmastodon