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Avian influenza is a zoonotic agent.The most common way a cat can obtain H5N1 is by consuming an infected bird. This has been studied in the 2006 and 2007 cases in Germany and Austria, where the strains between the cat and the infected birds were not different between the species. [8]
Larger cats, including captive lions, tigers and panthers, have also died as a result of eating meat contaminated with bird flu. So, too, have wild California bobcats and mountain lions.
Despite this, cat rescue groups sometimes release unadoptable feral cats into rat-infested neighborhoods under the pretext of giving the cats "jobs" as rat control, as is being done in Chicago and Brooklyn; the cats will largely ignore the rats and instead will beg for food from people or eat garbage and whatever small wildlife they can catch.
MORE: Oregon house cat died after eating pet food that tested positive for bird flu. Cats infected with H5 bird flu can develop severe illness that can include neurologic signs, respiratory signs ...
On Dec. 2, the Wild Felid Advocacy Center of Washington temporarily closed after its cats began experiencing an unknown illness. On Dec. 6, animal health officials confirmed the presence of bird ...
Domestic cats may at times become specialists as bird-killers if other prey is unavailable. Some carnivora, including the red fox and martens, are known for engaging in surplus killing of birds. Kruuk (1972) observed that four red foxes killed 230 black-headed gulls in one night in a single colony at the Cumberland coast while fewer than 3% of ...
Whatever your views on outdoor cats, it’s unavoidable that indoor cats are safer to birds – a study from 2013 found that domestic cats kill billions of birds and mammals each year.
Toxic insects, primarily beetles, in the diets of these toxic birds are the most common sources for the bird’s toxicity. In the New Guinea bird species of Pitohui and Ifrita, the beetles of genus Choresine, natively known as nanisani, are pivotal food sources, and toxin sources, of these birds. [6]