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This misleading book advocates the removal of cats from the outdoors "by any means necessary"
A book published by Princeton University Press contains dangerous and inflammatory content that advocates for the murder of cats.
_Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer_1 by bird advocate Dr. Peter Marra, head of the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, and writer Chris Santella is a tirade against outdoor cats.
The book’s extreme pro-bird and anti-cat views can be summarized in one horrific quote:
“From a conservation ecology perspective, the most desirable solution seems clear—remove all free-ranging cats from the landscape by any means necessary.” (Cat Wars, pp. 152-153)
This proposal flies in the face of decades of animal rights and welfare legislation, giving carte-blanche to animal abusers who would kill cats and claim they were doing it to protect bird populations2.
The book even recognizes that it is “difficult to identify with any precision the relative impact of a mortality factor, such as the free-ranging cat, to all birds that make these journeys over such large spatial areas and wide expanses of time […]” (p. 57). Despite the lack of concrete evidence indicating cats are the sole or even primary reason for the decline in bird populations3, Cat Wars advocates for the destruction of outdoor cats.
This unregulated, “by any means necessary” approach ignores the effectiveness of Trap, Neuter, and Return (TNR)4 programs for managing feral cat populations and the important role they play in preventing a “vacuum effect5” of prey species overpopulation. According to Cat Wars, any cat found outdoors is a problem and should be “removed.”
These extreme views are too dangerous to be ignored! We can’t let Marra, Santella, or the Princeton University Press get away with or profit from the deaths of all outdoor cats.Join the boycott against Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer and the Princeton University Press and speak out against the book and publisher to your family and friends!