🚀 go-pugleaf

On Dec 25, 2:39 pm, Jay Beattie <jbeat...@lindsayhart.com> wrote:
> On Dec 24, 5:11 pm, DirtRoadie <DirtRoa...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> > On Dec 24, 12:23 pm, Tºm Shermªn™ °_° <""twshermanREMOVE\"@THI
>
> > $southslope.net"> wrote:
> > > So we should celebrate contributing to the ecosystem's destruction by
> > > overpopulation?
>
> > A good cause is worth sacrificing for.  Tom, can we count on you to do
> > your part?
>
> And what about all those cats Tom owns? Too small to do meaningful
> work and too big for the deep-fryer -- and environmentally unsound
> (and I quote some blogger):
>
> It's true. A new study indicates your best friend may be a greater
> environmental risk than your car. Pet owners, listen up - here's how
> the greenies are plotting against Mr. Snowflake.
>
> Dogs and cats consume meat, a deeply inefficient converter of
> vegetation to animal protein. "Time to Eat the Dog: The Real Guide to
> Sustainable Living" by New Zealanders Robert and Brenda Vale, claims
> that a medium-sized dog consumes 360 lbs of meat and about 200 lbs of
> cereal a year*. To produce this load of nutrition requires over two
> acres of land - more than the equivalent of driving your car 6,200
> miles per year - including the energy required to build the car.
>
> A cat consumes the production of about a third of an acre, while a
> pair of hamsters is the annual energy equivalent of a plasma TV and
> even a goldfish consumes enough energy to power a cell phone for a
> year.
>
> That's a pretty hefty carbon paw-print for your pet to justify. Is it
> worth it? It seems pets act as anit-depressants, so if you factor in
> the prescription drugs that are not necessary, we may get some of that
> carbon-investment back.
>
> Of course there are the extremists who claim it's far worse than your
> pet's carbon footprint, there's the loss of biodiversity (your cat
> eats birds, lizards, mice, etc.) and the matter of fecal matter that
> gets into the environment, but overall, researchers claim that pets
> are an ecological disaster.
>
> 7.7 million cats in England consume more than 188 million wild animals
> that are hunted, killed and eaten by feline predators per year, or an
> average 25 birds, mammals and frogs per cat, according to figures in
> the New Scientist. Worse, your pet's poop gets into rivers and streams
> causing bacterial contamination in addition to tying up oxygen and
> killing fish and waterfowl."
>
> Seehttp://abcnews.go.com/Technology/pet-dogs-damaging-environment-suvs/s...
>

We have one that catches (and eats) birds.  She sometimes brings them
inside still flying.  Whjee!

Birds are plentiful around, thoughj, and she is what she is.  One day
a couple of bluejays dove and charged at her.  Those birds had me
ducking and running.