Screening of 'The Messenger' to highlight impact of feline predation on songbirds
With spring officially here, there's plenty to look forward to. There's the weather, longer days, more outdoor activities – and with windows flung open wide (or is that just my house?), there are more sweet sounds of wild birds greeting the day. The latter is a joy, no doubt, but we humans aren't the only ones who find our feathered friends interesting. Our cats do, too, which is fine if they are kept indoors. Outdoors, they often stalk wild birds and yes, capture them and worse. In fact, in many articles that I've written about cats , there have been comments aplenty from folks in the Ann Arbor area asserting their displeasure at the numbers of outdoor cats roaming their neighborhoods and killing vast numbers of wild birds. Their feelings about outdoor cats are understandable, and the banter between commenters can get quite heated. The problem of outdoor cats offing vast numbers of wild birds is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg, a reflection o...