It is not okay for cats to kill all the neighborhood birds.

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78. No, and neither is the primate Homo sapiens sapiens - except in sub-Saharan Africa

Humans and cats (both from Africa) have lived in a mutually beneficial symbiotic relationship for approximately 10,000 years. Not being great travelers on their own, cats are only where they are today because humans brought them along as they expanded their range causing environmental devastation not only because of their accompanying dogs and cats - but because of disruption of entire continental wide ecosystems by planting crops, felling forests, building cities, introducing herd animals and deliberately - for food, for sport, and by accident - exterminating entire species.

It seems ludicrous to complain about cats in general when we look at the direct devastation our own species has caused: Indeed, we are currently poised on the brink of another massive global extinction event caused by our pollution of the planet's very atmosphere.



If one has a recurring problem with a particular cat owned by a particular neighbor then one should deal with it directly - as, indeed, the author of the article is doing: By taking the cat to the county animal shelter.