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  2. Cat predation on wildlife - Wikipedia

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    In a 2020 study, approximately 300,000 domestic cats in Cape Town kill 27.5 million animals a year; this equates to a cat killing 90 animals per year. Cats on the urban edge of the city of Cape Town kill more than 200,000 animals in the Table Mountain National Park annually. Reptiles constituted 50% of killed prey, but only 17% of prey brought ...

  3. Cat burning - Wikipedia

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    Cat burning was a form of cruelty to animals as an entertainment or festivity in Western and Central Europe prior to the 1800s. People would gather cats and hoist them onto a bonfire causing death by burning or otherwise through the effects of exposure to extreme heat.

  4. Surplus killing - Wikipedia

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    A stoat surplus killing chipmunks (Ernest Thompson Seton, 1909) Multiple sheep killed by a cougar. Surplus killing, also known as excessive killing, henhouse syndrome, [1] [2] or overkill, [3] is a common behavior exhibited by predators, in which they kill more prey than they can immediately eat and then they either cache or abandon the remainder.

  5. How to stop cats killing birds and keep the peace in your ...

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    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.

  6. What to Do When Your Cat Is in Heat (Without Overstepping ...

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    All you gotta do is treat your cat like a queen while she’s in heat. By that we mean: 1. Do indulge her. Dr. Evan Ware, Medical Director of University Animal Hospital, says a cat in heat ...

  7. Why Pet Parents Should Consider Never Letting Cats ... - AOL

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    Outdoor cats can get bitten or scratched or even injured and killed by other animals. On the other side of the coin, outdoor cats kill roughly 1.4-4 billion birds in the United States each year.

  8. Wild animal suffering - Wikipedia

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    Wild animals can experience injury from a variety of causes such as predation; intraspecific competition; accidents, which can cause fractures, crushing injuries, eye injuries and wing tears; self-amputation; molting, a common source of injury for arthropods; extreme weather conditions, such as storms, extreme heat or cold weather; and natural disasters.

  9. Throat clamp - Wikipedia

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    A strong, large animal can easily kick and injure the predator from this angle. A social predator can use the standing throat clamp much more easily because there can be other individuals on the back of the prey, stopping it from kicking, which could lead to collapse, or using a throat clamp periodically to tire the animal out.