{"id":183541,"date":"2013-01-29T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T00:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/01\/29\/we-love-those-little-fuzzy-murderous-psychopaths\/"},"modified":"2013-01-29T19:14:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T00:14:00","slug":"we-love-those-little-fuzzy-murderous-psychopaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/01\/29\/we-love-those-little-fuzzy-murderous-psychopaths\/","title":{"rendered":"We Love Those Little Fuzzy Murderous Psychopaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/J4TjMRa.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/J4TjMRa.jpg\" width=\"290\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Awww!!!  It&#8217;s so cute!!!<\/i><\/div>\n<p>A new study has revealed that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/01\/30\/science\/that-cuddly-kitty-of-yours-is-a-killer.html?hp\">cats are merciless killing machines cutting a wide swath through indigenous wildlife<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">For all the adorable images of cats that play the piano, flush the toilet, mew melodiously and find their way back home over hundreds of miles, scientists have identified a shocking new truth: cats are far deadlier than anyone realized.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In a report that scaled up local surveys and pilot studies to national dimensions, scientists from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and the Fish and Wildlife Service estimated that domestic cats in the United States \u2014 both the pet Fluffies that spend part of the day outdoors and the unnamed strays and ferals that never leave it \u2014 kill a median of 2.4 billion birds and 12.3 billion mammals a year, most of them native mammals like shrews, chipmunks and voles rather than introduced pests like the Norway rat.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The estimated kill rates are two to four times higher than mortality figures previously bandied about, and position the domestic cat as one of the single greatest human-linked threats to wildlife in the nation. More birds and mammals die at the mouths of cats, the report said, than from automobile strikes, pesticides and poisons, collisions with skyscrapers and windmills and other so-called anthropogenic causes.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Peter Marra of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and an author of the report, said the mortality figures that emerge from the new model \u201care shockingly high.\u201d <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I loves my cute little black hearted merciless killing machines.<\/p>\n<p>They are so cute.&nbsp; Squeeee!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awww!!! It&#8217;s so cute!!! A new study has revealed that cats are merciless killing machines cutting a wide swath through indigenous wildlife: For all the adorable images of cats that play the piano, flush the toilet, mew melodiously and find their way back home over hundreds of miles, scientists have identified a shocking new truth: &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1079,1132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-pets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}