it's you, take a shower
Why does my room smell like canned cat food? Does dust smell? Could it be mold?
While I must admire a man such as yourself, I still won't back down. Yes, I was factually incorrect on some parts, still cats pose are a huge ecological catastrophe. Nor was I incorrect on the part of violent nature of cats.
Especially free-range cats are a huge problem and contribute to many unnecessary harms to small mammals, birds, lizards etc. Over just a couple hundred years the rabid outbreak of cat populations have made animals extinct. In some cases only one cat was enough, which speaks volume on how dangerous things cats are. Keeping a outdoor cat is basically the same as you throwing your cars waste oil to a nearby stream.
They are rabid breeders and humans voluntarily helping the populations will just help these populations to grow. We should immediately take control of this problem, maybe even outlaw cat ownership all together. My words may seem weird now, but eventually we will meet some unforeseen breaking point, where the cat populations start causing huge cascade effects. If nothing else we need to limit the cat population to reasonable levels but I don't really know if that is possible.
Pic related, it's the bird species that only one cat was able to extinguish.
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/the-obituary-of-the-stephens-island-wren/
Well, giving a single predator a monopoly in an ecosystem leads to very unstable and unpredictable swings in general. If cats have to compete with other predators, or even stay wary of bigger predators (something that's now rarely a case, as those also pose a threat to humans and are thus removed), they are kept in check - what you're describing is what happens when they aren't. And cats also have a nasty habit of hunting for fun and not even eating their prey. Of course, if they know they'll get fed somewhere anyway they don't have to conserve energy.
