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ChazInAz

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9. Picture a world without them.

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Sat Feb 9, 2013, 12:42 AM

Feb 2013

Without those stone-cold killers, we'd be buried in starlings, rodents, assorted bugs...you name the vermin, our purring beasts keep their numbers down.

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Adorable Killers: The Shocking Truth about Cats [View all] marmar Feb 2013 OP

Puuurrrrrrrr ! virgogal Feb 2013 #1

Our Masters ..... oldhippie Feb 2013 #2

Still? theKed Feb 2013 #3

OMFG!! Is there a conspiracy going on against cats worldwide????? DinahMoeHum Feb 2013 #4

You know, I got the strangest feeling of Deja vu when I saw this thread. ScreamingMeemie Feb 2013 #6

Here's a little piece to counter the hysteria. Blue_In_AK Feb 2013 #10

Seems so, and I understand from the group Alley Cat Allies, that they are being killed whathehell Feb 2013 #11

The bad PR cats have been getting now is promoting killing them glinda Feb 2013 #5

All I know is that once in a while a poor, unfortunate mouse somehow breaks into our house.... WCGreen Feb 2013 #7

Keep your cats indoors. Zoeisright Feb 2013 #8

+1 Remmah2 Feb 2013 #19

Picture a world without them. ChazInAz Feb 2013 #9

Cats are poor at rodent control; a rat terrier is much better FarCenter Feb 2013 #13

I dunno, it's been said that just the SMELL of a cat DinahMoeHum Feb 2013 #16

Kittehs! Godless little killing machines. TwilightGardener Feb 2013 #12

Cats belong indoors. Anyone who sufrommich Feb 2013 #14

And cats caused the Bubonic Plague because they were familiars obamanut2012 Feb 2013 #15

I Use A Collar w/ 3 Bells otohara Feb 2013 #17

LOL! "Most murderous predator on the planet"?? That would be the human, not the cat. flvegan Feb 2013 #18

Paging the Gipper... slackmaster Feb 2013 #20

Steaming pantsload. Agriculture and urban sprawl, deforestation of habitat all done by humans Ikonoklast Feb 2013 #21

Cats are pets and as such should be treated the same as a dog. TheProgressive Feb 2013 #22

So I'm reading that a German publication that is PCIntern Feb 2013 #23