Hmm...

Maybe Fred isn't so strange after all...


Natural Born Killer?

Cats kill "not only for sustenance, but also seemingly for the sheer pleasure of it. 'Even when fed regularly by people,' Temple and Coleman wrote, 'a cat continues hunting.' ... Various studies credit alley cats with up to 28 kills [of birds] per year. Farm cats, Temple and Coleman observed, get many more than that. Comparing their findings with all the available data, they estimated that in rural Wisconsin, around 2 million free-ranging cats kill at minimum 7.8 million, but possibly upwards of 219 million, birds per year.
That's in rural Wisconsin alone."

-Alan Weisman, The World Without Us