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Outdoor Cats’ Impact on Birds
Natalie Angier of The New York Times wrote a great column about the huge threat to wild birds posed by cats that are allowed outdoors. Cats that are allowed outside typically live three years less than ones kept indoors.
The good news is that we rarely see "free range" cats at the Celery Farm.
Link is here.
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Three years less! I’m putting mine outside today!
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Good article–but Natty, less purple with your prose, please! 🙂
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Betsy Thomas
Three years less! I’m putting mine outside today!
Tom Burr
Good article–but Natty, less purple with your prose, please! 🙂