There is a place that is about to issue the world's first ban on cats
This happened in a small New Zealand town called Omaoyi. Australia has had several previous cat hunts.
What kind of heinous crime has the impression of a cat that is usually "lazy and cute"?
Why do you want to be a "cat-free land"?
The local council of Omaoyi requires cat owners to do three things: sterilize the cat, implant a chip, and then register it.
"We can't control the existing pet cats, but we are forbidden to have new cats in the future."
Some people are not convinced: I don't give my cat a chip, what can you do with me?
Then you must look after your cat, if you don't leave the house, if you go out of the house and be caught, what awaits it is a needle of euthanasia.
Before a cat is euthanized by injection, its owner finally says goodbye to a kiss
After half a day, why ban cats?
The answer is for the birds. Cats can kill birds to eat, even if the domestic pet cat, every day cat food, cat canned feeding full, can not stop its mouth to eat wild game ah.
Because of the presence of cats, some of New Zealand's endemic endangered birds have no way to survive.
This is because New Zealand is a geographically isolated island country, native birds and reptiles have never seen anything in the world, and have developed some childish habits, such as some birds can not fly, nesting on the ground.
A chestnut-breasted plover lies in a nest on the ground
Before Europeans landed in the 18th century, there were no cats in New Zealand. Wait for the cat to come and take a look: Good fellow, this meal has been fed to the mouth, can Lao Tzu still let you go?
On the riverbank, a wild cat is stealing eggs from the bird's nest
New Zealand is home to a number of unique and fragile animal species, and extinction means disappearing altogether.
Unfortunately, cats do not have biology textbooks and have not learned to protect biodiversity.
How lethal are they?
The remains of a feral cat and 107 dead short-tailed bats
Brush-tailed rabbit rat mutilated by a feral cat
Rabbits, birds and eggs, mice, bats, lizards, and all kinds of insects are all home-cooked dishes for cats. As of now, the cats have completely killed 9 species of birds in New Zealand, and another 33 species have pushed the cat to the brink of extinction.
Here are 9 species of birds that have been eaten by cats to extinction:
▲ Chatham honey-sucking bird
▲ Chatham fern warbler
▲ Chatham buzzard
▲ North Island Sandpiper
▲ Raoul Island White Plumed Petrel
(Pictured is the white-plumed petreel, the extinct Raoul island white-plumed petrel is a subspecies of it)
▲ Laughing Owl
▲ Stephen Island Heterophyll
▲ Stephen Island Partridge
▲ New Zealand bush wrench
The proposal for a ban on cats is still soliciting opinions from residents.
It is expected to be introduced at the end of October.
The parties also debated:
Cats are more dangerous than you think
A research team in Australia once performed an autopsy on a cat, and the results were found in the cat's stomach:
Australia has a total of 3.9 million pet cats, compared to China with 58.1 million in the world and the United States in first place.
How much do Americans love cats? It is estimated that even in the urban belt and rural areas, the total number of pet cats in the United States is as high as 76.5 million. With a population of 320 million, there is an average of one pet cat per 4 people!
Mara once led a team of scientists to investigate domestic cats in the United States.
Note: The domestic cat here is the name of the species, not the "cat at home", so it includes both the "master" who is offered in the house and the nameless stray wild cats on the street.
The findings are shocking, with estimates:
American domestic cats kill 2.4 billion birds each year,
12.3 billion mammals were killed.
The latest study says that 29 percent of the animals killed by domestic cats each year and 11 percent of mammals are blamed on pet cats that roam outside. And the 80 million stray cats in the United States are the main force to kill these animals.
The University of Georgia in the United States has launched a project, but it is specifically for pet cats. They placed the VCR on the neck collar of pet cats and monitored where they were going.
Even the cute pets who eat and drink spicy every day have not lost their wild instincts in their blood. The video camera shows them wildly preying on red-clad cresteds, frogs and voles.
In addition to this, their outdoor activities include: licking antifreeze and sewer sludge, hiding in the street, fighting with big dogs...
In the United States, wild animals threatened by cats include foxes, possums, raccoons, skunks, coyotes, minks, eagles...
The one who has to ask, is it difficult for a cat to eat an eagle?
Although the cat does not fight directly with the eagle, the problem is that the cat snatches the food of the animals, including the eagle, in the process of preying on mice, hares, and birds. If you don't have enough to eat, your ability to survive will naturally come down.
There is also the problem with diseases carried by cats, this time marine mammals. The parasite follows cat droppings into the ocean and invades the bodies of marine animals. Dolphins, seals, sea lions, sea otters, are all victims of cats.
Mara said it is precisely because the cats are cute that people take them for granted.
What to do? Animal protection groups have come up with a trick in three steps:
Trapping – neutering – release.
Release is not blind, where the catch is put back, than mass euthanasia humanity, right?
But the environmentalists don't do it, saying that you guys are not fooling around, trapping – neutering – releasing them, so tossing and turning, not only can not reduce the number of ownerless cats, but to make people who do not want their own cats more fearless, this is not equivalent to indirectly encouraging people to abandon cats?
It is not unreasonable for environmentalists to be impatient, as the trap-sterilization-release system has become more and more popular, and now there are more than 500 stray cats in Austin, the capital of Texas, which is going to kill them.
Environmentalists vs. animal protection activists
Around the cat, environmentalists and animal protection activists have not less to fight.
In the eyes of environmentalists (such as collins and Mead's gang in the previous article), those who are not watched, the domestic cats wandering on the street are equivalent to invasive alien species, each one is a cruel killer, trampling on the ecology, very scary.
terror? On the other hand, animal protection workers are anxious: In animal shelters, is it more terrifying than the euthanasia of millions of stray cats and dogs every year?
Veterinarians leave paw prints on wet clay for euthanized pet cats
Environmentalist: Cats are fate, birds are not fate? Are you used to your cat, and no other animals are alive? I love to listen to a Chattam honey-sucking bird chirping, let the cat eat the extinction after the can no longer hear, are you responsible for learning for me?
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Remains of an owl that was killed by a wildcat on Stewart Island, New Zealand. The parrot was urgently evacuated from Stewart Island to prevent it from being preyed upon by cats
There was disagreement, but at one point the two sides agreed that pet cats should not be allowed to run around casually under any circumstances.
They say that cat owners who insist that cats should be free are irresponsible and simply not really "good for the cat." Mara made an interesting analogy: "Letting a cat out is like driving a truck on a bike lane." Damn. ”
No matter which side you're on,
Such debates will not stop for a while.
At least, don't underestimate your cat from now on.
In another world,
It has dominated and will continue
Dominates the fate of many species.
What kind of thing does a cat do that will make you can't help but punish it?
Or are you happy to do whatever it does wrong?
Editor's arrangement: CPL Oga VV
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reference:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-45347136
https://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/pests-and-threats/animal-pests/feral-cats/
https://pelentiniresearch.wordpress.com/2012/07/05/hooray-moreland-ccs-feral-cat-trap-neuter-release-proposal-scrapped/
http://www.wildthingssanctuary.org/cats--wildlife.html
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