Cats are an introduced species that do not belong in North America, and relatively recently their population has soared.
Like I said, native bird species have lack defenses against cats, who are extremely versatile predators. They are the most abundant carnivore in North America, and there's nothing natural about that.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/29/sc...pagewanted=all
Yeah I know you'll just reply with some stupid flippant response, but think about this: in surprisingly violent Mediterranian Europe, millions of migratory song birds are killed by human hunters just for fun.
If you think it's reprehensible for some adult men to go around shooting small birds for sport, to the point of threatening these species with endangerment, people are doing the same thing here with their cats as proxies.
As for meowing "not being natural" and "something only kittens do," adult cat behavior is basically kitten behavior not switched off. For instance, that "kneading the dough" sort of motion that cats do when they're coming in to cuddle is what kittens do on their mama cats to encourage milk flow.
Yeah, adult wild domestic cats don't meow so much, but hey, cats and dogs have to do things with humans that they wouldn't have to with other members of their species.
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