The Egyptians embalmed cats as mummies and tom-cats also. The holy cows of India get hand-outs and feral cats have earned their keep.
"Grass fed livestock sure causes damage to the environment but that damage is not permanent ". Clean coal organic cow-food is Green vegetable environment grass-roots consumer rights.

biological warfare - I agree

I heard somewhere that there are an estimated 1.5 million feral cats here and they eat 3 small animals (birds, lizards, marcupials) each per night. Thats staggering.

"Fortunately, a tiger turning to human prey is rare.
A tiger usually makes one large kill every week. For India's 1,700-odd tigers, that adds up to more than 85,000 kills in a year.
If humans were part of a tiger's natural diet, and since there are people everywhere in India, a good number of these 85,000 kills would be humans.
The truth is, less than 85 people are killed or injured in a year by tigers here.The most comprehensive study of deaths due to tiger attacks estimates that at least 373,000 people died due to tiger attacks between 1800 and 2009, the majority of these attacks occurring in South and Southeast Asia."
Feral cats are breeding larger size beasts and may be forming into packs.