Domestic cats kill millions of wild birds each year. This predation represents a significant source of mortality for birds around the world, and is a major threat to a number of declining species. Indeed, cat predation has been implicated as a major cause of extinction of numerous species of bird, small mammal, and reptiles. Over 1.4 billion birds in the United States alone are estimated to be killed or injured by domestic and feral cats each year, and 75 million in the United Kingdom.

Telling an entire country to change their diet is quite a grandiose call to action. To be realistic, it is obviously not all Americans that need to change their diet. But first of all, let’s understand why Americans need to change their diet. Did you know that per capita, Americans consume the most meat yearly? Do you know how consuming animals instead of plants affects climate change? This article will explain.

Cats, dogs, parrots, fish, snakes, spiders, lizards, gerbils―people love pets for lots of reasons. Once one has identified the kind of pet one wants and is willing to properly care for it, the Golden Rule in selecting a particular animal is to be sure that it was not taken out of the wild.