Dorkly's kinda meh....

Is this news? I mean, other than the number being somewhat higher than expected, is this even remotely shocking to someone?

There was a big fuss about a solar power plant that annually burned 10 000 birds (or some similar number). Animal rights groups flamed and foam-mouthed. Well, cats murder orders of magnitude more birds. Nobody fights for a ban on cats

yeah it is yeah. nobody had conducted such a study before. It might never have been considered or occurred to anyone before how much of an impact our love of domesticated cats has had on the ecosystem's fauna.

this is indeed really worrying and now that it's put that way it seems almost obvious with us being this many on earth and having that many cats the consequences are of course proportional.

Really? look at how often a cat brings a murder home and extrapolate that to all cats and you wouldn't be far off, wouldn't you?

well we might never have thought of doing that. humans are really dumb sometimes...

From the image: "21% of your cat's victims are brought home" - so I guess you'd have ended up with a massive under-estimate.

Only 1 in 3 cats murder, and only 1 in 5 are brought home. So if you assume that all cats murder and just assume that only 1 in 3 brings em home (which makes more intuitive sense), that makes me off by a factor ~2.

Even 1.5 billion or, assuming only 1 in 3 cats murder and all they murder is brought home, a couple of hundred million is still a MASSIVE bodycount.

x'D