One of Nova Scotia's leading environmental
groups is encouraging cat owners to keep their pets indoors to keep more birds
alive.
"When it comes to birds, we don't
necessarily think about it but there's a large number of birds that are killed
by cats every year," said Mark Butler, the bird conservation co-ordinator
at the Ecology Action Centre.
"The estimate in Canada is about 100
million birds a year are killed by cats."
The Ecology Action Centre and the Hope for Wildlife
Society have teamed up to create the Allied Cats program and spread the
message.
"As a cat owner you don't want to think of
your pet as the one that's causing any destruction because they're like family
and you don't want that to be the case," said Veronica Sherwood, the owner
of two male cats and part of the Allied Cats program.
"I was hearing more and more from friends
of mine in the birding community that we were losing a lot of songbirds as a
result of cat predation and feral cat colonies and cats being outside, taking
the birds."
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