The government's feral cat plan has familiar echoes in a threatened species strategy unveiled in 2015 by the then environment minister under the Coalition, Greg Hunt.
One is that they hunt themselves. They hunt at a lower rate than a feral cat, but because pet cats live at really high density in towns and suburbs, the predation toll per square kilometre is actually much higher than it is out in the bush.
Modelling Legge has done for the Invasive Species Council suggests that roaming pet cats kill 546m animals per year in Australia, of which 323m are native.
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