A biased study on cats and wildlife published this week in Nature Communications is just another veiled promotion by bird advocates to ramp up the mass killing of outdoor cats.
Some of the research cited is more than a half-century old; discredited researcher Nico Dauphine, who was convicted by a D.C. jury for trying to poison cats and then fired from her job at the Smithsonian, is also cited.
“This so called “˜survey of research’ seems just another misguided attempt to draw attention to the decline of wildlife by manufacturing a fake debate. The study conveniently sidestepped the primary culprit of decline of wildlife populations which, of course, is human activity including habitat destruction. The authors also neglect to mention that their proposed “˜solution’ really endorses continuing the same failed policies of the last century which call for the mass killing of cats. Tens of millions of healthy cats have already been killed in animal pounds and shelters, at great taxpayer expense, without achieving anything. A policy of just more killing can never be the right answer,” said Becky Robinson, president and co-founder of Alley Cat Allies.