homes looking for shelter or food that the expansion of human settlements has taken away from them. Animal overpopulation can be directly traced to humans. Often times in our society, humans adopt pets without preparing for all of the responsibilities that come with that pet such as a cat or dog. When the pet becomes too much work, people often let the pet into the wild. If these pets are not spayed or neutered, the pets make babies, and then the parents and babies come into neighborhoods, looking for food. You may not think having wild cats in your to people it isn’ t, but are forced to eat and birds. This can certain as hawks that
“ When the animals and humans meet, the results can be dangerous and sometimes deadly.” neighborhood is such a big deal, which to other animals it is. These wild cats other small animals such as squirrels mess up the order of the food chain in environments, leaving the animals such normally eat squirrels, left hungry. Over
population of naturally wild animals can also be an issue, an even bigger one.
" Sometimes the encounters result in injury or death. For example, deer--a species whose numbers have skyrocketed in the absence of natural predators--cause tens of thousands of traffic accidents every year as they attempt to cross U. S. roadways. Such accidents, which almost inevitably kill the animals involved, claim the lives of roughly 150 drivers per year and injure thousands more.( Animal Population Control)" The natural predators that normally help naturally control these animal populations have been hunted, and are no longer limiting the deer population. In order to control animal populations, there are a few options: birth control, capturing and moving animals, or hunting. This is where the controversy comes in.