There are ENOUGH pets for ALMOST everyone in the US!!!...

Scientists estimate that between 60 and 160 million feral cats roam the United States. A recent letter to the editor at NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune claimed cats are the "answer to New Orleans' rat problem," and suggested increasing their local numbers. Scientific studies, however, say otherwise.



Feral, free-roaming cats have been documented by dozens of studies to be indiscriminate killers of wildlife and the cause of at least 63 species extinctions, according to a 2016 analysis of invasive species impacts. But while the evidence of their hunting prowess is overwhelming, there is little proof that cats are effective at controlling urban rats, which studies have shown are not their primary prey.

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