Reply #372: Uh, no, they haven't [View All]

This areas natural predators:

Bear - The California Golden Bear has been extinct for a century.
Mountain Lion - Cougars tend to not last long in urban areas. When one is spotted, they get tranqued and relocated quickly.
Foxes - The Valley Kit Fox is an extremely endangered species and no longer exists in this part of the state at all. They require wide open plains that simply don't exist in this part of the state any more.
Coyotes - Same story as the mountain lions. Since coyotes kill and eat housecats anyway, I think it's unlikely that the cats would be displacing them if they WERE allowed to migrate back into this area.
Wolverines - Have only existed in the extreme northeastern corner of California, hundreds of miles from where I live, for a century.

So yes, I can say with some certainly that my cats haven't displaced any of our regions natural predators. That job was accomplished by us humans.