I HATE

[AKA_Monet]

So my husband and I got into this discussion about domesticated animals knowing when to stop breeding and limit their populations naturally, like wild animals do... The issue is "predation"--domesticated animals are not predators.. Yes they may bite and attack without warning--but the tracking and seeking food like real predators do, does not happen in domesticated animals. They just have sex and make litters of babies... That is all they do--more mouths to feed. They do not stop. That is why all the animal people are saying please, please, please spay and neuter your pets...

As far as predators go, their populations are controls at neonate stage. Maybe 1 out of 10 neonates survive to juvenile stage. Most get killed, eaten or their ecosystem changes. That is why some major predators have problems.

Also we humans have stuck some interesting stuff in our environments, it not that hard for certain predators to learn how to get food without having to hunt or catch it... I dunno, but from what I hear, there are fewer predators that like "live kill" than there are that straight out scavenge for food. Basically, the predators we all know and love, are lazy and like to scavenge their food rather than catch it...