Welcome to Search Engine, I'm PJ Vote. Every week on the show, we answer a question we have about the world, no question too big, no question too small.

This week, what are we going to do about all these cats?

But it's after some ads. about all these cats. The Daptras meds. And so I recently learned that the Polish Academy of Sciences has declared that cats are an invasive alien species.

Invasive species are foreign species who are introduced to an ecosystem and rather than benignly adapting to it cause damage and

disruption. The Burmese pythons who terrorized the Florida Everglades, the

feral hawks who wreak havoc through Texas. But there was something strange about hearing that cats had been added to the ranks.

It wasn't just Polish scientists making that determination, though.

Globally, there appears to be some sort of cat backlash brewing.

It's 10 p.m. do you know where your cat is?

In Iceland, cats have been put under curfew.

One city has imposed an outright ban on outdoor cats.

For controversy has erupted in Canterbury over a children's hunting competition.

In New Zealand, a contest was announced where children would compete for a cash prize for killing feral cats.

Hunters under 14 are being offered $250 for whoever can kill the most feral cats.

Although the condust was shut down in the face of not terribly surprising criticism.

Once you start paying attention though, this conversation about cats, it seems to be happening everywhere.

There is a cat problem in Southeast Memphis.

There are cats are over running one neighborhood in Dana Beach,

the I-Reed home of tonight.

A cat by in Cherokee County where neighbors are seeing not one, not two,

people living in a Central Baker still neighborhood are calling it a

stray cat crisis in 23 ABCs John

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