![]() Our Garden for Wildlife program has more tips on how to provide cover for birds and other wildlife in your yard. If you use native plants, not only will they provide cover for birds, they’ll also offer food sources and nesting places. When you’re designing your garden or landscape include dense plantings of shrubs or trees, or a meadow or wildflower garden, where wildlife can hide. ![]() Provide Coverīirds and other wildlife naturally use dense vegetation to hide from predators. It’s up to us to prevent and solve the problem. We created domesticated cats and have imported them around the world in places they don’t belong and in numbers that often far exceed the numbers of native predators. Remember, it’s not the fault of the cats, which are just following natural instinct, but rather an extension of human impact on our environment. All of the other tips on this list are only going to be partially effective, and only address the symptoms, not the underlying problem of the negative ecological impact that our domesticated cats have on wildlife. It bears repeating that the only way to keep birds and other wildlife safe from domesticated cats is to keep cats indoors. Indoor cats live longer than their outdoor counterparts Keep Cats Indoors Here are some tips for keeping backyard birds and other wildlife safe from free-ranging domesticated cats. If you participate in our Garden for Wildlife program and have created a wildlife habitat garden for birds and other backyard wildlife, it is understandably both concerning and frustrating when cats show up and kill the wildlife you’ve worked so hard to help. ![]() Even if you keep your own cats indoors, your neighbors might not, or you might have feral stray cats in your neighborhood. ![]() If your cat goes outside and you can’t keep it indoors - which is the only 100 percent effective way to keep birds and other wildlife safe from cats - there are some things you can do to minimize the chances of it hunting wildlife. We recently published an article in National Wildlife magazine on the enormous, unnatural toll that free-ranging domesticated cats take on wildlife, along with a blog post about how to keep indoor cats happy and healthy so they don’t need to go outside. ![]()
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