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Originally Posted by daveyrach
According to research done on the amount of prey caught by how many cats were studied cats only catch and kill 0.3 animals per week each and that includes all animals be it rabbits, birds, moles etc.
Also cats are actually killing less and less as they do not need to due to humans feeding them and the astronomical amount of food which is thrown out in the UK, they do not have to hunt anymore.
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So with 9 million pet cats as a conservative estimate in the uk...it doesn't take a genius to figure out that is an astounding number of kills per year.
It is a very real problem and your figures only serve to prove that. A five month study of 964 cats in 600 households actually showed that 14,000 animals were killed in that period. Less than 1000 cats killing a recorded over 14,000 creatures in 5 months is not funny!