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by XorNot 2746 days ago
The problem is this doesn't delineate very well between the feral and urban populations. While feral cats are enormously destructive to some ecosystems, and irresponsible pet ownership is obviously going to contribute to the feral cat population, it's far less clear that urban domestic cat populations contribute to ecosystem damage in any serious fashion - because far more damage was done when we went and paved over hundreds of sq miles of that ecosystem to build a city there.
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These feral cat populations came from what used to be domestic cats, which got out and bred.

Nobody is claiming that humans haven't caused damage to the ecosystem. But you're just spouting a whataboutism when we _know_ that cats are also incredibly damaging when let to roam free.