Cats Are Evil
You know what animal makes a good pet? No animal.
Dogs will bite you to death and then eat your corpse. Snakes will asphyxiate you, escape, infest the Everglades, and eat all its mammals. Pet parrots perpetuate a trade that upends ecosystems, and hamsters pass you dangerous zoonotic diseases. But perhaps the worst pet of all, environmentally speaking, is a cat.
Domesticated cats started out as parasites on human civilization. Unlike other species, and admittedly to their credit, they domesticated themselves. When humans started growing grain, the crops attracted rodents that attracted cats. Wild cats evolved into housecats, and they were quite useful for thousands of years, killing disease-ridden rats and mice and protecting our food stockpiles. But now that we have industrial farming, reliable food storage, and mostly mouse-proof houses, cats are mere parasites again. Playful and often affectionate parasites, sure, and adorable when young, but a scourge on the landscape.
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Morgan points out that your cat “is actually a friendly neighborhood serial killer.” He may sound like some wretched, obsessed Jonathan Franzen character, but his Cats To Go project isn’t meant as a caricature of environmentalism. He’s asking people to pledge to neuter their cats, keep them indoors, and not get any new ones.
Cats are a globally invasive species. They kill millions of birds each year in Wisconsin alone. Cats feast on endangered North American ground-nesting birds such as the California clapper rail, least tern, and piping plover, any one of which is cuter than a laundry basket full of kittens. A study in the D.C. area a few years ago showed that in some neighborhoods (neighborhoods in which a lot of people who really ought to know better let their beasts roam free), outdoor cats eat basically all juvenile birds as soon as they fledge.
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http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/01/new_zealand_eliminate_cats_they_kill_endangered_bird_species_and_shouldn.html
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...and while I agree with all of that as basically true, I also won't give up my kitties until they are pried off my cold, dead corpse. After they've eaten the choice bits.
I get into this argument on a fairly regular basis with a former student of mine who is a DU regular and avid birder. Avian diversity exists solely to keep cats amused and well fed. "Nasty little feathered lizards, precious. We bites they little feet. We sucks they little bones."
...an asteroid failed to complete!
Also look at all the Predators of birds that no longer exist because of either urbanization or environmental displacement.
Don't tell me that our cats are responsible for bird destruction. Our Bird Feeders are active in our yard and our cat is an indoors as all ours have been...but, neighborhood cats roam and the birds seem to be pretty successful in dodging them. Sure...a few probably got caught but it's not like we live in New Zealand with armies of Feral Cats here in US.
It's disgusting going after our House Cats and even Barnyard/Feral who also take care of vermin and keep population under control. Trying to shove off Enviromental Distruction of bird sites and blame it on our CAT Population sounds like another Hatched up RW Hate Meme to me. I see it erupt here and there on the Net the last couple of years. And, it's sad to see it, everytime. It needs to be pushed back on.
So there's that.
Kitties ... 
And, I believe this is true for all pet owners... Sadly their more vicious, preditor instincts are tamped down on with the good food, treats, toys and entertainment we provide them so we don't see their "REAL LIVES" if they weren't with us.
but, then again...what would we Humans be if we were back to "Hunter/Gatherers?"
We'd look pretty bizarre to humans today. 
The whole Interwebs would fall apart without them!
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You gotta send this to SCE for the Sunday Lolcats!
If posted in the Lounge, it would look like a well used scratching post.
Bunny Rabbits get torn up worse by other predators. Don't blame this on Kittehs.
It ain't their fault when they have so much help. 
the rest of us have them as loved pets we give affection many treats and pampering to.
But, cats are programmed to be who they are and to HUNT.
You let yours roam...they are going to do what they do. I don't want mine doing that...so they are pretty much imprisoned in the treats and environment they depend on from me. I don't have a problem with your choice and many feral cat lovers and feeders know that they can't be domesticated but still love them...and those of us with domesticated do what we do..because it pleases us.
Different strokes for different folks who love cats and figure out ways they want to live with them. Whatever works.
Ugh...
Do you think it's a feral cat or one that was abandoned. Since you said it wanted to come in ..would make me think it was abandoned.
It was one of the saddest things I've seen. The parents flew out of the way during the attack. I severely scolded my cat. I then watched the parents flitting about the yard chirping madly while desperately looking for their beloved baby for the next hour at least. Sad, very sad.
cat might kill you and eat your dead body.
