Regarding Kiwis, cats are bad, dogs are worse and stoats & ferrets are evil.http://www.doc.govt.nz/conservation/native-animals/birds/land-birds/kiwi/threats/
lol, way to split hairs!:-PFeel free to post some links to factual information about cat attacks on Kiwis, other than the Northland Brown Kiwi, being worse than dogs then.(Though I would point out that you never differentiated them in your previous posts.)
Other parts of New Zealand don’t share the problem to the same extent. Northland is losing kiwi in far greater numbers than other places.
One loose dog could decimate the Whakatane kiwi population.
In 1987 a German shepherd was abandoned in Waitangi State Forest. She was hungry and killing kiwi was easy and fun. In just six months she killed about 500 kiwi, more than half all the kiwi in the forest.
The most dangerous are stoats, which feast on the young birds. Kiwi chicks can resist stoat attacks once they weigh about 1 kilogram, but this is not until they are 40 weeks old. Other predators include dogs, feral cats and even wild pigs, which dig up kiwi burrows. Weka are known to eat kiwi eggs.
Kiwi are also vulnerable to being hit by cars, drowning in swimming pools, fish ponds and trenches and capture in animal pest traps set on the ground.
But dogs don't eat native species of NZ like cats do.
Some folks think their dog/cat/snake IS their kid!
So just like dogs then.
