Previously published estimates of the number of birds and mammals killed by owned cats
are probably too large by over one billion animals. We estimated a median of 640 million …

Unfortunately, good data to answer this question are scarce. Current estimates of pet cat
populations in the United States vary from 58.4 million (AVMA 2018) to 94.2 million …

US animal shelters are now killing fewer cats and dogs than at any time in the past 60 years–
–nearly 300,000 fewer in the most recent scal year than just one year earlier, and just 8.6 …

In this article, I list all the estimates I could find for numbers of vertebrates that are farmed or
kept in captivity for various purposes. I also describe some groups of captive vertebrates for …

Domestic cats are estimated to kill billions of small mammals and birds each year. In certain
areas of the world, it is not uncommon for either feral or free-ranging cats to have high …

On January 29, 2013 the peer-reviewed journal article titled" The impact of free-ranging
domestic cats on wildlife of the United States" and written by Scott R. Loss, Tom Will, and …

It's estimated that there are around 70 million dogs, and more cats, in the United States. In
2012, 36.5% of US households owned at least one dog, and 30.4% at least one cat (AVMA …

Anthropogenic threats, such as collisions with man-made structures, vehicles, poisoning and
predation by domestic pets, combine to kill billions of wildlife annually. Free-ranging …

Recent reports suggest that US domestic cats contribute to killing billions of birds and other
mammals each year (Angiers, 2013). People's motivations whether or not they allow their cat …

Accurate information about the number of cats living outdoors and how they respond to
different kinds of management are necessary to quell debates about outdoor cat policy. The …