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The 1 to 4 billion animals killed by outdoor cats every year: X_X
Not to mention all the outdoor cats that are themselves killed or horribly injured.
I know a guy who went through 5 cats in a few months because he was getting them, letting them out, and they were getting hit by cars since he lives on a super busy road that has heavy semi traffic.
It really reminds me of that one joke "I keep having to buy a new car because my neighbors dog keeps eating it" " it sounds like you're just feeding cats to the neighbors dog"
Dude just didn't seem to grasp simple addition that his new cat + outside in a bad area = squish
Sounds like Pet Sematary.
What, he was like "huh Snuffy hasn't been around for a few days. Welp, time to get a new cat I suppose!" every two weeks?
The only cat I've had that I've felt okay with letting roam was a stray that came to us declawed, so he was mostly harmless. We still ended up making him an inside cat because we caught him sneaking into the neighbor's house to steal their cat's food and poop in its litterbox.
Declawed cats are a coyotes favorite meal. Big enough to feed the kids and cant even fight back
Not a lot of coyotes in our neck of the woods, but the little orange moron kept writing checks with the neighbor cats that his disarmed front paws couldn't cash, so he was always coming back with scratches. One of the other reasons we stopped letting him out.
That is an oddly specific culinary preference for a wild animal to have.
Easy to catch fattened meals are a pretty clear cut preference
Is that how that works though? I don't know anything about Coyotes, but I know things generally know better than to fuck with cats.
.......... Are you asking if a coyote can eat a cat?
Do you understand they hunt deer? Theyre not really worried about a cat with clawless arthritis, horn and hoof wounds are much bigger threats.
Predators dont know better than to not fuck with cats, most of them know to grab them before they get up a tree.
Declawing is cruel. It's basically cutting off your first knuckle.
I would never do it to a cat, but when this particular one wandered into my then-girlfriend's house one night and decided he lived there, he was already declawed. He never seemed to suffer too badly from it, fortunately.
But what if he was a guest there? Maybe the neighbour's cat told him "make yourself at home?" Did you even ask him? Psh ...
We actually found out when my wife was over visiting, and he came in through the cat door, locked eyes with her, froze, and slowly backed out of the house. 😅
Yup, fuck your outdoor cats.
Absolute environmental disaster, they need to be spayed and neutered and occasionally culled by any competent local government.
You'll also need to ban pet cats from walking outside without a leash. Our cats were neutered, didn't stop them from killing any mice or birds they could get their paws on.
The reason they need to be spayed and neutered instead of outright killed is because culls don't really work on animals that reproduce that quickly. Whenever a spot opens up for another cat to make its territory, it gets immediately claimed. There are a ton of research papers that show spaying and neutering is more effective at lowering stray populations, and that euthanization is more costly on top of being less effective.
I was talking about the cats that are kept as pets, not stray cats. I guess it varies from country to country, but most cats walking around outside in Norway are pets (~90%). Reducing the stray cat population to zero wouldn't fix the issue of cats killing all the small wildlife unless pet cats are also kept inside.
I wasn't saying anything against neutering cats.
If the cat never exits the home then idgaf honestly, but if it escapes then it should be eliminated in the most effective way possible. That is my stance, an unattended cat is a stray for all intents and purposes.
Wow that's cruel. Someone's cat gets loose, they can't find it yet, and you think it should be killed. Good job killing Fluffy because he escaped.
But letting it slaughter little birds is not cruel, somehow? A manmade pest with no beneficial role to nature is somehow much better to you than functioning ecosystems? If a cat gets out, the owner has made a mistake and will now deal with the consequences.
You mean allowing those cats to follow their instinct doesn't compare to a human making a rational decision to straight up kill someones cat because they slipped through a door?
Who would have thought?
Do you also kill your spouse when they eat a steak?
I'd say we take this one step further and declaw, spay, neuter, and keep a lot of people on a leash.
Oh no, the horror.
I miss the internet where people could laugh at a silly comics instead of writing and upvoting this.
They're projecting. There is an industry killing billions of animals which is also very bad for the environment and ecosystems. If only they could be as passionate about that as about someone else's cat…
Who says that they're not?
Statistics.
Didn't expect Lemmy to turn Reddit this fast 😅
"Who cares that I club seals? Johnny next door clubs 50 walruses. Sure theyre both going extinct now, but he gets 50 a day! I only get 1!! How could you care that Im clubbing seals with all those dead walruses?"
Exactly the poor logic you'd expect from someone who didn't go to college. Apparently most of Lemmy…
Im a professional ecologist, there, animal abuser.
But go on, keep telling me how you failed middle school bio so hard that you know better than the global scientific community
Lol 😝 You're full of shit. Sad thing is you don't know it yet.
Mate, we're old enough now to have to actually fix shit instead of waxing lyrical about our youth. Let's work together, and still have a laugh.
I'm glad to know my outdoor cat kills animals
Do you get off on animals going extinct? What is wrong with you?
"Outdoor domestic cats are a recognized threat to global biodiversity. Cats have contributed to the extinction of 63 species of birds, mammals, and reptiles in the wild"
Pretty fuckin low on the priority list to be honest. Cats have been doing this forever. Humans are way worse.
Yeah in their natural habitats, humans are the ones that brought cats with them enabling them to hunt species to extinction. Cats could not have done it without humanity's help.
Cats are part of the human problem. If you cant reason that bit out, you 100% should not be responsible for another living thing, and probably need regular supervision from an adult to keep you from hurting yourself
Agreed, lol. These people are way too sensitive about pests and birds dying.
Wheres your chaperone?
Why are you proud of lacking empathy for other living creatures? Are you hollow inside? When will you become part of figuring out a balance, instead of being proud of the problem?
Humans kill much, much more animals.