Although wildlife managers recognize the beliefs of many concerned stakeholders, including advocates who use strong emotional appeals on behalf of cats, it remains that free-ranging and feral domestic cats are an invasive species spread by humans (Lowe et al. 2000) (Figure 1).
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Sep 12, 2021 · In general cats tend to be an “invasive species” in heavily human-occupied areas, where the humans are the real invasive species to the ...