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According to the Humane Society of the United States, as well as being kept as pets, cats are also used in the international fur trade,[198] for making coats, gloves, hats, shoes, blankets and stuffed toys. About 24 cats are needed to make a cat fur coat.[199] This use has now been outlawed in several countries, including the United States, Australia and the European Union.[200] However, some cat furs are still made into blankets in Switzerland as folk remedies that are believed to help rheumatism.[201]
Census
There are approximately 220 million domestic cats in the world, according to the International Federation for Animal Health Europe (IFAH).[202]
A few attempts to build a cat census have been made over the years, both through associations or national and international organization (such as the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies's one[203]) and over the net,[204][205] but such a task does not seem so simple to achieve.
Impact on birds
The domestic cat is probably a significant predator of birds. UK assessments indicate that they may be accountable for an estimated 64.8 million bird deaths each year.[133] Certain species appear more susceptible than others; for example, 30% of house sparrow mortality is linked to the domestic cat.[182] In the recovery of ringed robins (Erithacus rubecula) and dunnocks (Prunella modularis), it was also concluded that 31% of deaths were a result of cat predation.[183] The presence of larger carnivores such as coyotes which prey on cats and other small predators reduces the effect of predation by cats and other small predators such as opossums and raccoons on bird numbers and variety.[184] The proposal that cat populations will increase when the numbers of these top predators decline is called the mesopredator release hypothesis. However a new study suggests that cats are a much greater menace that previously thought and that feral cats kill several billion birds each year in the United States.[185]
On islands, birds can contribute as much as 60% of a cat's diet.[186] In nearly all cases, however, the cat cannot be identified as the sole cause for reducing the numbers of island birds, and in some instances eradication of cats has caused a ‘mesopredator release’ effect;[187] where the suppression of top carnivores creates an abundance of smaller predators that cause a severe decline in their shared prey. Domestic cats are, however, known to be a contributing factor to the decline of many species; a factor that has ultimately led, in some cases, to extinction. The South Island Piopio, Chatham Islands Rail,[183] the Auckland Islands Merganser,[188] and the common diving petrel[189] are a few from a long list, with the most extreme case being the flightless Stephens Island Wren, which was driven to extinction only a few years after its discovery.[190][191]
Some of the same factors that have promoted adaptive radiation of island avifauna over evolutionary time appear to promote vulnerability to non-native species in modern time. The susceptibility inherent of many island birds is undoubtedly due to evolution in the absence of mainland predators, competitors, diseases and parasites. In addition to lower reproductive rates and extended incubation periods.[192] The loss of flight, or reduced flying ability is also characteristic of many island endemics.[193] These biological aspects have increased vulnerability to extinction in the presence of introduced species, such as the domestic cat.[194] Equally, behavioral traits exhibited by island species, such as "predatory naivety"[195] and ground-nesting,[192] have also contributed to their susceptibility.
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