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>muh folk belief!
cats do nothing. zero reason to roam.
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001502661
>the rats soon disappeared and were not seen running about as before. A little careful investigation, however, showed that they were nearly as numerous as ever, but much shyer, keeping out of sight. At the end of the year, notwithstanding the killing done by the cat, the number present had not decreased, as not enough had been killed to dispose of the annual increase. After the cat had been in the barn six months, I set eleven old rusty traps one night and got six rats; two sprung cats and got away. This one night’s work of old and rather ineffective traps equaled six weeks’ work of the cat.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cats-are-surprisingly-ineffective-keeping-urban-rat-populations-check-180970428/
>Over a 79-day period, feral felines killed just two rats, instead opting to hunt less challenging prey

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1375794
>From a 1951 study of scat in a Baltimore neighborhood, only 7% contained evidence of consumption of rats. The cumulative predation of cats in the study area only accounted for about 20% of the mortality necessary to keep the population stable. That is, rats were reproducing five times faster than the rate of cat predation

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0005794
>Again, researchers in Baltimore found that rat populations rebounded quickly from removals of half the population, which cats never remotely approached. They did document cats killing rats up to 500 g, but found the same pattern of most kills being <200 g.

https://cales.arizona.edu/pubs/adjunct/snr0704/snr07042l.pdf
>results of a study published in 2004 by Hawkins, et al. stated: The presence of homeless house cats that received supplemental food had a negative impact on native California rodents and birds. Native rodents and birds were less abundant and the exotic house mouse was found to be more abundant

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