All this bird-killing nonsense about cats is truly idiotic.
I tell you who kills trillions of birds:
It's the government with entire programs of killing billions of birds every year for some inane "environmental" or agricultural reason.
http://worldtruth.tv/usda-admits-extermi...-and-bees/
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/...nloads.htm
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/wildlife_damag...lac031.pdf
I can remember about Stalin doing that on a grand scale killing trillions of birds in order to protect the crops only to result in an explosion of the insect population. But I am sure that pesticides are killing way more small birds than all of the above measures.
Also what kills billions of birds - among those big ones are the stupid ineffective windmills (15.000 of those already inactive) - all of those exist because they are subsidized by the taxpayer via higher energy bills.
Stray dogs cannot run loose of course, because they band together and start hunting and killing - and they very quickly are hunting men as well as Australian examples have shown - those things are not comparable to cats.
And yes - feral cats should be caught and neutered - then released - they catch plenty of animals like rodents which are actually destructive to the agricultural process - there is a reason why cats have been employed deliberately by agricultural societies for millennia now. I wonder if we have forgotten about those things in our society who is obsessed about killing and spray-killing everything.
One of the first psychopathic signs is the killing and torturing of small animals / pets. There are reputed to be sects out there who "harden" their kids by taking in pets and then forcing the kids to kill those pets. It truly creates wonderful human beings out of them.
I am sorry to disappoint you, but we humans are not natural meat eaters. Of course similarly to the gorilla we will kill and hunt and eat meat, but these are not natural feral abilities or even tastes that we observe in our young that indicate that looking at a bunny or cow we want to kill and eat it. Yes - cats are such creatures and had we evolved from those, then I am sure you would see 5 year old girls killing small rabbits from time to time with their bare hands. Humans need to learn that animal-killing part and most of us don't enjoy it for a good reason. You don't see children naturally jump at bunnies and kittens in order to eat them. Those that do enjoy killing for nothing other than amusement are walking down a dark path.
Now I don't consider everyone a psychopath for doing it, because a lot of it is customary and there is the survival aspect (also I don't want to be a hypocrite for eating meat, but not killing it personally) - still that scene where a VETERINARIAN kills an obvious house cat for fun and then posts pics of her "prey" on social media for giggles is truly staggering in it's mindlessness and stupidity. It does not even matter if she tortures and eats cats in her basement, how on earth could a vet believe that it is a good idea to do so in public and be proud of it?