If you live in an apartment, just don’t get one
Reasoning edit: pets, especially cats, will leave a smell all over furniture. Cleaning becomes an even worse chore due to the fur. They also require “house training” in order to not chew/claw/destroy most stuff that’s lying around the house.
Cats are actually still a threat to birds of prey:
competition for food sources
direct threat to fledglings
cats carry pasteurella multocida, which is very dangerous to birds