Do NOT visit New Zealand if you are a bird lover!!! You will be in for an awful shock!!! In terms of native wildlife, forget it -- most of what you see will be domestic and feral cats prowling their cities and countryside in search of birds and other animals to torture and kill. They are everywhere!! New Zealand has one of the highest rates of cat ownership in the world, and at the same time the slackest and most irresponsible laws dealing with cat control. In fact there are no laws. Cats are completely uncontrolled, no rules whatsoever concerning licencing, de-sexing, micro-chipping, the wearing of bells, vaccination, or the movement of cats. And, unlike any other type of pet owner, cat owners cannot be held legally responsible in New Zealand for anything that their cats do to wildlife, private property, public health,etc. Cats kill an estimated 27 million birds annually here in New Zealand, which is over half a million per week, or roughly 75000 per day. Per capita, New Zealand wins the award, We trounce the UK where, with a population of 60 million, only 75 million wild birds are killed annually by domestic cats. In the USA where the cat problem has led to drastic control measures in many areas of the country, cats kill around one billion birds per year, still less than half the NZ rate on a per capita basis. Research shows that, worldwide, cats kill as many as 4.1 billion birds annually, on top of all other wildlife they kill. Scientists now acknowledge that cats have ...
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