Jamie Sarkonak: Outdoor cats are a menace — leashing them is the least we can do

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Jamie Sarkonak: Outdoor cats are a menace — leashing them is the least we can do
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They kill millions of birds a year, multitudes more than the oil and gas industry

This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.City councils often tote their environmentalist ways, doing thing like approving bike lanes, supporting green infrastructure and reducing their water use. But bike lanes don’t save bird lives. Until recently it seems, cities have been willing to look the other way when feline friends are the culprit.

Oil companies, meanwhile, have to payThere is little justice in Canada if you’re a city bird. If we went after roaming cat owners like we did oil companies — which would be the conservationist thing to do — perhaps it would start to level the playing field. Right now, outdoor cats are an environmental externality being taken less seriously than carbon. Climate change is bad, but fewer and fewer birds get to experience it every year because of irresponsible pet owners.

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