Interesting...
If we only include big cats and bears, that's certainly true. There's around a billion dogs on Earth and a similar number for domesticated cats whether feral or pets.
Tigers - less than 10 thousand
Lions - Less than 25 thousand
Jaguars - around 170 thousand
Leopards - 250 thousand
Snow leopards - 5 thousand
But then if we include smaller wild cats...
Bobcat~2 Million to 3.5 Million North America
Leopard Cat~Millions (Stable) Asia
Caracal~1 Million+Africa & Asia
Serval~Hundreds of Thousands Africa
Ocelot~800,000 to 1.5 Million The Americas
The best guess including all wild (not feral house) cats is 100 million.
- even then it's way less than house cats.
Gemini says...
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When we remove domestic pets and livestock-adjacent scavengers from the equation, the number of wild carnivoran mammals (members of the biological order Carnivora) is estimated to be roughly 300 million to 400 million individuals.
While this sounds like a large number, it is starkly overshadowed by the nearly 1.6 billion domestic dogs and cats that now dominate the planet's carnivore population."
Although if you include snakes, birds, fish and other aquatic animals, that figure is probably reversed, although skewed somewhat due to the numbers of small rodents, birds, fish etc, compared to pet food which is often made from cows and pigs and other larger mammals.
I wonder if OP even thought of fish, whales, turtles, snakes etc?
*also spiders.
Apparently they are dedicated carnivores...and get this, their population on Earth is estimated at...wait for it...21 quadrillion.
Which is 2.6-2.8 million spiders PER PERSON.
And get this... spiders eat more animal matter each year than humans do...yikes.
