Shocking numbers of birds are killed every year by feral and free-roaming cats in the United States and worldwide. Houston Audubon endorses the efforts of Audubon leadership at the national level to work with scientific, conservation, and animal welfare communities to address this problem.

Houston Audubon is also a member of the American Bird Conservancy and supports its CATS INDOORS! program. See the following websites to learn more, and please keep your cats indoors -- for their sake as well as for the birds.

For more information:

• Cats: on the Audubon web site.
• Domestic Cat Predation on Birds and Other Wildlife: PDF prepared by the American Bird Conservancy.
• Cats Indoors! The Campaign for Safer Birds and Cats: on the American Bird Conservancy web site.
• Trap, Neuter, and Release: Bad for Cats, Disaster for Birds : American Bird Conservancy video posted on YouTube, 8/31/2009.