i wonder how much that changes when you’re in an area that’s a native area of small wild cats and has been overrun by agriculture and domestic cats for 5000+ years. the cats have probably killed everything they could already. still, the concentration of cats that can live on garbage and well meaning stray cat feeders is probably too much even for those environments, degraded as they are already by increasing human encroachment
The pollution from their poop is environmentally destructive enough alone tbh. Same reason wolf poop is neutral to the environment but dog pop is a major biohazard, they harbor all sorts of foreign pathogens from cohabitation with humans and unnatural/processed food loaded in nutrients causing excess of nitrogen + changing how their guts evolved
Also 5000 years isnt nearly enough time for an ecosystem adapt to a non-native species,
i wonder how much that changes when you’re in an area that’s a native area of small wild cats and has been overrun by agriculture and domestic cats for 5000+ years. the cats have probably killed everything they could already. still, the concentration of cats that can live on garbage and well meaning stray cat feeders is probably too much even for those environments, degraded as they are already by increasing human encroachment
The pollution from their poop is environmentally destructive enough alone tbh. Same reason wolf poop is neutral to the environment but dog pop is a major biohazard, they harbor all sorts of foreign pathogens from cohabitation with humans and unnatural/processed food loaded in nutrients causing excess of nitrogen + changing how their guts evolved
Also 5000 years isnt nearly enough time for an ecosystem adapt to a non-native species,