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How to stop cats from exterminating wildlife?

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Re: How to stop cats from exterminating wildlife?

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I wonder how such a joke questions sometime end up in the top of Ask HN. While serious and relevant ones (like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33693376 And others much better) drown with near zero attention.

It's a serious problem, wildlife is disappearing because of millions of cats: too many predators in the wild. If you develop a product that stop cats killing everything, people will probably buy it. You know, ecology and climate change are in the air at the moment. I'm asking here because people have products idea and know how to develop products.

Re: How to stop cats from exterminating wildlife?

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1) How is cats killing animals such as birds and mice actually a problem? Do we have a shortage of birds or mice? For the most part, even if they're domesticated, I'd consider cats eating things as part of the natural food chain in the way that nature designed. 2) Suppose you could solve this "problem" and you could design a device that emits some sound and makes cats' hunting fail. Have you considered the far reachi…

Yes, wild birds and rodents are massively disappearing. The problem is there are too many domesticated cats hunting in the wild, to the point of exterminating wildlife. Insects are massively disappearing too. Not because of too many birds, because of too many pollutants in their environment. Scientists noticed the cat problem and I'm trying to find a solution on this website.
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