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Recommended by: Madis Leivits
Illustrating photo: Arne Ader
Translation: Liis
 
Black cat
 
The Toronto Wildlife Center http://www.wildlifecenter.org/
together with a number of partners has launched a useful web page:
http://www.keepanimalssafe.ca/  explaining the effects of cats on wildlife.
 
In America it is estimated that cats kill billions of creatures each year, moreover also rarities in addition to the more common species. Cats don’t hunt these animals just because they are hungry but because they kill prey by instinct and as we all have observed, play with it before the kill.
The problem is current in Estonia too: there are proportionally more stray cats than in the US, in urban as well as rural environments.  Driving in Estonia you see cats sitting at the edges of fields and roadsides more often than you see foxes or raccoon dogs.
  
The  web page mentioned above can be studied at the addresses below, and you can spread the information to cat owners in your acquaintance.

http://www.abcbirds.org/abcprograms/policy/cats/index.html



 

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