I agree, but the point is that domesticated cats aren’t invasive in the same way as they are across the pond. They are effectively the same species as european wildcats and have the same prey.

What’s your source on that? That’s news to me but I can’t find it anywhere on the RSPCA website.

https://www.rspca.org.uk/adviceandwelfare/pets/cats

There’s a lot of wild cats that live across europe, which is why the advise you get in the states is different because over there, cats are more of an invasive species which its prey haven’t evolved with.

We have many species, but here’s one example which has been around for 170,000 years: European Wildcat