> "Mark Earnest" <gmearn...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:4b2dnbEowftVhGzXnZ2dnUVZ_tKdnZ2d@posted.internetamerica...

>> "Kelly Greene" <kg1...@wildred.net> wrote in message
>> news:hcqv0i$ri6$1@solani.org...
>>> All creatures not able to cope with cats since they have no evolutionary
>>> experience with them.

>> Too bad for them.  Cats are top of the food chain.

> Cats are *NOT* at the top of the food chain. That's been explained to you
> already. Coyotes, hawks and fox all eat housecats.  Are you unable to
> learn? A learning disability perhaps?  The birds were here first and are
> an important part of our ecosystem.

>>> And you feel it's kinder to have them die of starvation, dehydration,
>>> disease, cruel people who poison them...... you're all heart and part of
>>> the reason the suffering continues. It's people like you who keep the
>>> shelters full unwanted animals.

>> Kelly, get real.

> No, you get real.  You're living in some fantasyland, some dream world of
> your own.

>> Cats have been around for thousands of years, and in some stretch for
>> millions of years.

> But here in America. They're not native here and you should know this
> already.

>> And all through history we have no historic or even fossil record of cats
>> overruning the human population and causing an ecological problem.
>> If cat reproduction never caused a problem in the past, why do you think
>> it would cause a problem now?

>> If it did, don't you think evidence of this would at least be in our
>> ancient
>> literature?

> Because disease and predation and man kept down their populations as we
> still do. How can you be so ignorant of the facts?