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Review by Seth Rogovoy
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Review by Seth Rogovoy
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Invasion of the Bird Snatchers
3.22.11
I love cats. I like them so much, I have one that's the size of three of them (23 pounds of lovable, purring fur). But the truth is, in North America, cats are an ecological disaster, an invasive species responsible for the deaths of half a billion songbirds a year, as reported in today's New York Times.
That compares with just half a million birds killed by wind turbines, which are often opposed for the supposed threat they pose to birds. Let us hear that excuse against wind power used no more (unless at the same time it's coupled with a call for a ban on cats).
But more importantly, please keep your murderous felines indoors. If they must kill, at least let the victims be disgusting, awful, disease-carrying rodents.
This does raise the question, however, what gives with the birds? Why are these winged creatures, who can FLY, after all, so defenseless when it comes to the sly feline predator?
The answer, of course, goes back to what it means to be an invasive species. North American birds have not yet been naturally selected to defend themselves against Satan's henchmen imported from the East (aka cats, if you're a bird).
Also, birds are a bunch of bird-brained idiots.
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