For anyone who missed it, here’s Washington Post columnist Charles Lane’s take on the recent study identifying cats as a major culprit to bird deaths:What shall we do with these killer cats?

He raises some interesting points:

“Scientific though it may be, the report is not contradiction-free. It brands cats an ‘invasive’ species, imported to North America by humans and unchecked by natural predators. Yet three of the 11 most-victimized bird species in the study are also invasive: the house sparrow, the rock pigeon and the European starling.

In my book, that means every time a cat takes out one of those winged pests, it’s a case of justifiable avicide.”

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