Abstract
Cats and Conservationists: The Debate Over Who Owns the Outdoors explores the hotly contested debate surrounding outdoor cats, free-living animals, and humans’ role in nature—a debate grounded in conflicting science, ethics, and public policy goals. The authors attempt to sort out the data and values related to this debate and find common ground. However, in so doing, they create several false equivalencies. More helpful to those working on the ground to address outdoor cats would have been a book that, in sorting out the values and data, meaningfully compared the competing arguments.
outdoor cats, “feral” and stray cats, free-living animals, ethics, conservation, animal welfare, trap-neuter-return
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