• maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    There isn’t really anything here that would prey on a cat. Australia is pretty harmless comparatively. No bears, no ‘big’ cats or wolves of any kind. Crocodiles are limited to the tropics and most of Australia is not in the tropics. Nothing like anacondas and cats are too quick for snakes anyway. There are sharks but they pose no threat to cats. For all the press Australia gets about dangerous wildlife it’s actually a pretty chill place. The cities are pretty devoid of bugs if you live in a flat or keep your garden litter down, even more devoid of bugs since I was a kid (mostly due to massive logging in regional areas and overdevelopment in urban areas).

    I would think cars would probably be cats biggest killer, especially in urban areas.

    • shameless@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      So true. There are multiple videos around where it shows that cats have reflexes faster than snakes, if a snake can’t take down a cat then what chance does anything else stand… Unless, hear me out… We introduce bigger cats to eat the smaller cats, they can sort of “invade” the smaller cats territories, then once they are done we can surely remove the bigger cats.