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CAT PREDATION INJURIES TO NATIVE WILDLIFE
Most of these were fatal to the animal.
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Newborn Grey Squirrel. Cat puncture bites on back
and base of tail. He died.
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Eastern Cottontail Rabbit. Bite from cat punctured his
heart the other went through his jaw.
Imagine the pain it was in?
Did he deserve to die like this??
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American Goldfinch fledgling. Cat caught. Right wing
fractured at elbow joint, where a cat had it in its mouth and carried it
home. This songbird had to be euthanized. Its eyes are glazed and
swollen likely from infection caused by the bacteria in the cat's mouth.
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Newborn Eastern Grey Squirrel after a cat got through
using it's claws to flip it up in the air. It died within an hour
of our receiving it into care. The shock alone was enough to
terminate it's life.
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Juvenile Virginia Opossum. Degloved (skin torn off)
by a cat in a fight for food. Horrific injury. After nearly six
months of painful treatment she was finally healed enough to be
released. Six months is one fourth of an opossums'' life span in
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Two American Robin fledglings - on the ground learning to
fly. Until the neighbourhood cat got them that is. The robin
on the right had both wings fractured, and the robin on the left had
puncture wounds through his chest wall. They were mercifully
euthanized. The finder decided to keep them for a few days and fed
them bread soaked in milk. The cat is still roaming the
neighbourhood.
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We will continue to
add photos to this page to document the damage that cats do to wildlife.
The above photos are just a small sample. Many of our earlier photos were
from a Polaroid camera, degraded over time, they aren't suitable for scanning
into digital images. With the advent of digital cameras, we have the
ability to better document this problem now.
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Every single tree and patch of ground it roots
in;
every stream,
pond or lake
is 'home' to
a wild animal.
When you
look in the eyes of these displaced, sick and
orphaned animals
you understand and you see that they are the
helpless victims
of habitat loss.
What is our personal responsibility?
To mitigate
the damage we have done.
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