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LETTER: Domestic cats are a threat to wild birds

Keep your cats indoors for safety and disease protection, this writer says
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Allowing domestic cats to roam freely outdoors poses a danger to birds, this writer warns.

Editor,

We live on Kent Street, where our yard is now filled with fledgling birds: finches, sparrows, wrens ...

A national study averages 100 million birds killed by cats every year in Canada.

Domestic cats are not native to our ecosystem, and allowing them outdoors negatively impacts other wildlife species as well.  We always kept our 
cats indoors for safety and disease-protection.

Right now, there is a black-and-white cat sitting under our feeder, just hoping a baby will fail to get airborne.

Our posters have been ignored.  I plan to trap and take it to a shelter. PLEASE keep cats indoors!

Susan Lindenberger, White Rock