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And as Ella rightly pointed out, they have led to the extinction of birds.
Like the classic ones are lighthouse keepers on small remote islands where birds, slightest birds,
with only a few of them left, and they bring in a cat or two, maybe to keep down the mice or whatever, and the cats ignore the mice and kill off the birds and render them extinct forever.
So, you know, there is that.
And, I mean, I love cats.
I actually love cats.
Believe it or not, I actually judged cat shows twice.
I actually was asked what I judged them, and I did, and there were some stunning cats.
But I use it to kind of raise the idea that maybe you need to control and look after your cat a bit more to avoid killing all these pets.
And I've been at the end of trying to rehabilitate or look after maimed birds that have been brought to me for nearly 50 years.
I was called the bird man here in Cove.
And I would be brought the results of the maiming.
You know, it's not just killing.
They mean a lot more than they kill.
And they also, you know, they also frighten birds.
If birds are nesting and a cat is roaming through their territory, they go berserk.
And so they do cause a lot of problems for our wildlife population.
I mean, this is the problem with these incredible machines.