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That Cuddly Kitty Is Deadlier Than You Think – NYTimes.com

Please keep your flipping cats indoors.  In a report that scaled up local surveys and pilot studies to national dimensions, scientists from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and the Fish and Wildlife Service estimated that domestic cats in the United States — both the pet Fluffies that spend part of the day outdoors and the unnamed strays and ferals that never leave it — kill a median of 2.4 billion birds and 12.3 billion mammals a year, most of them native mammals like shrews, chipmunks and voles rather than introduced pests like the Norway rat.

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A domestic cat with a European rabbit. Domestic and feral cats are significant predators of a wide range of prey species, including rabbits. Photograph by James Morton.

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