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Newgirlintown
Why the inverted commas around ryokan?
Newgirlintown
Which become quotation marks in the article.
wallace
And do the Ryokan guests still stay? I would not.
wallace
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g298219-d1109379-Reviews-Aratama_Ryokan-Beppu_Oita_Prefecture_Kyushu.html#/media/1109379/?albumid=101&type=0&category=101
Photos of the cats
GuruMick
Stray cats kill wild life, mainly birds.
It is a problem.
This is not a solution.
Desert Tortoise
What a wonderful thing they are doing.
I get tired of this lie. They keep rodents under control. Humans come with an ecosystem of vermin. Cats are unique in that they apparently domesticated themselves to us clumsy hairless bipedals, not the other way around. As far as can be determined cats were domesticated about the same time humans started to farm. Farms mean stored food and that attracts rodents. Cats figured out that hanging around human settlements would give them access to an abundant food supply and cats still have one paw in the wild.
Aside from a handful of small islands there is no data showing cats are affecting wildlife populations negatively. The 2014 State of the Birds report, published by the North American Bird Conservation Initiative, notes that “habitat loss is by far the greatest cause of bird population declines” [50]. Targeting free-roaming cats (another anthropogenic factor) not only raises ethical questions but can also distract from efforts to mitigate these other, more concerning, factors. Most of the studies are poorly supported by data. Read the link below please.
Ironically it is Japan's two native species of Leopard Cat that are endangered. Not bird populations.
https://www.felineresearch.org/post/issue-brief-wildlife-impacts-of-outdoor-cats
GuruMick
Desert Tortoise...data from Australia shows cats, wild mainly, decimating native wild life.
Lots of info. on this online.
Euthanize cats....its a winning strategy.
De sexing half way there...
ILoveDownvotes
Heroes.
Thanks for the article, found them on Google maps, I know where I'm staying if I ever to to that area.
Desert Tortoise
And as the link I posted shows most of these studies are nonsense. In any event these cats are indoors as are ours. The only thing they eat is commercial cat food.
Only if you are a sociopath. I have a deep and abiding hatred of those who would do harm to cats and dogs.
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All readers back on topic please.
BakabonPapa
This is great, but they have to be fixed or they'll multiply like rabbits.
GuruMick
"I have deep and abiding hatred " for straw man arguments.