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Posted by kurt d. on 16:02:14 05/25/14
In Reply to: Re: cats and coopers part1 (with the grace of the moderator) posted by josh
Josh, the horn study is pretty well known, and is great science, no question. But their real roamers were unnuetered males not owned or cared for by humans. They concluded that how much care and feeding a cat recieved from humans had a direct correlation to how much impact a free roaming cat had on it's environment. They also found that even the wildest cats never really left the human footprint. Studies like this one are great stuff, and are old school in every way, you go where the data takes you, not where you want it to go. I didn't post this to defend outdoor cats, I don't have a strong opinion on them one way or the other, really. I just tire of the loss paper being held up as factual everytime the subject comes up. Their numbers are garbage in, garbage out. I am always amused when I get whacked on here because I don't ascribe to the groupthink of the moment. I live by the theory that 19 out of 20 ideas you have stink, so a good skill is to sort them out as quickly as possible, and discard the garbage before you get attached to it.
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