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It's Harambe all over again. (thelemmy.club)
submitted 20 hours ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 71 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

I love my cats, but they never go outside. Because I also love the birds.

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  • [–] 23 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

    In Australia there is an expectation that people keep their cats inside because those little murder machine are able to decimate a significant amount of our native fauna. I was shocked when I moved to the UK for a few years to find out that a typical requirement for getting a cat there through legitimate sources included committing to letting them roam outside.

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  • [–] 5 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

    There's no fauna left there anyways, best thing I can get you is dead chicken in KFC.

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  • [+] -24 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

    "Humans are destroying the planet and drive a lot of the fauna towards extinction. Let's blame..." spins wheel... "Cats."

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  • [–] 17 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

    Plot twist: They are there because of us! There are many reasons why biodiversity is rapidly declining. That doesn't mean that cats are not wreaking havoc on the local bird population:

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  • [–] 0 points 17 hours ago* (1 child)

    Why are US numbers way off the chart for cats and windows? Is the US overrun with cats and murderous windows? How do you make sure the windows stay friendly towards humans? Do you export bad windows to Russia?

    There are so many questions...

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  • [–] 7 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

    Because of population. It's basically this but comparing USA and Canada and showing it as a bar chart.

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  • [–] 3 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

    Adjusting for population the numbers should only be 10 times higher, 1.96 billion for cats and 250 million for windows. Cats are close to equal but I'm still concerned about your windows.

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  • [–] 5 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

    Yeah well cats aren't native to Australia, humans brought them here so that's on us, the common house cat is an apex predator here, cat owners need to take some responsibility for their murder machines or we end up with more 20 kg feral cats that can take out a kangaroo

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  • [–] 2 points 7 hours ago* (1 child)

    Nitpick, but cats aren't an "apex" predator in any environment. They are hunted by pretty much every carnivore at least as big as a coyote, including large birds of prey.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 hours ago* (1 child)

    They are in New Zealand, where the problem is worse than in Australia. New Zealand has zero native land predators. There are some birds of prey that can hunt invasive stoats and rats, but cats are effectively uncontested (with the exception of humans performing population control).

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  • [–] 2 points 2 hours ago*

    Fair enough, I should know better than to use absolute statements in nature and that does highlight the delicacy of small island ecology. (It's still true for Australia though which has enough dangerous animals for the domestic cat to be firmly a "mesopredator")

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  • [–] 24 points 19 hours ago (1 child)

    Guy who used to let his cat out here, the medical costs became too much for us at one point, so we no longer let that orange bastard out. He lost like 4-5 of his 9 lives to cars.

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  • [–] 53 points 19 hours ago (1 child)

    Maybe it's time people stopped letting their cars out.

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