Owen Murphy

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684 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 8 Jun

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The Claire Byrne Show · A Cat the most destructive, invasive predators in the natural world · 8 Jun 2026 podcast

and we're looking at invasive American mink, and they're a wild living species.

But cats that are out in the wild and living wild have a similar impact on birds.

So it's to try and assess what they're doing and how important that is.

There's a multitude of other factors, so nobody's jumping up and down and saying cats are the only problem and cats are doing this.

But they're one of the factors that are leading to the massive decline in birds around the country.

Yeah, I mean, any of those things will probably help because they will all help us to get a handle on how many cats we have in the country and what our cats are doing and how many are associated with households.

I mean, I don't like to advocate for extra costs on any household, but if there was a way of registering your cat and it didn't cost a fortune and it wasn't

to owners and people it would be a good step but I mean family members of mine moved home from America recently in the last couple of years and they mentioned catios and I said what but I mean there are patios that are enclosed that cats can go out so I mean in a lot of other countries it's normal for cats not to be free-ranging so you don't just let your cat out in the evening and goes off and does whatever it wants to do at night

your cat is either indoors or it's in some sort of a human-made facility that keeps it from having such a negative impact on the wildlife.

And I mean, we see New Zealand and Australia, some of these other countries that have a lot of flightless and ground nesting birds.

So over here, we have ground nesting birds that are doing very badly, but when they get to a certain age, they can fly.

You know, in New Zealand, they have these birds that get to a certain age and they still can't fly.

So I mean, cats are having an absolutely...

catastrophic impact on their population.

So in some parts of New Zealand I think that there's now a ban on free roaming cats.

I don't know.

I mean, it's possibly how do you enforce a curfew?

I mean, it's about changing people's perceptions.

And any time that I have this conversation with people, you know, people get very sort of heated saying about cats and cats have been here a long time.

And, you know, there's a lot of other things happening and other things have impacts on birds.

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