US cats kill 1.3 to 4 billion birds each year, up to 22 billion mammals, and hundreds of millions of reptiles and amphibians, according to estimates AlamyThey are the killers in our midst: savage creatures who go for the neck and then tear their victims to shreds. You may know them as Mog, or Tibbles, or Mr Pickles, but left to their own devices cats are responsible for the deaths globally of tens of billions of songbirds, mammals and reptiles and lizards. The carnage they wreak in the natural world is driving some species to the brink of extinction. Feral cats, indeed, ought to be poisoned. That is the message of Cat Wars, a new book by the…

Source: The Times September 20, 2016 23:03 UTC