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[–] [email protected] 110 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Remember kids, keep your cats indoors. Unless you live on a farm, outdoor cats are either dead cats, or pests.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Oh I got into a "discussion" with my neighbour who's friend said she was cruel for having indoor cats.

I said her friend is thick and should be ignored, because she is and she should be.

Well the neighbour decided instead to give her cats to the Shelter and now has indoor dogs.

I don't like my neighbour, she's stupid with stupid friends, and cruel to animals.

In other news, one of my indoor cats is 19 years old.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My cat just sits in my backyard all day

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Eh even on farms they're not the most effective

Sure cats sometimes catch mice, but you know what else also catches mice and is actually native to wherever your area is? Owls.. Owls that are being chased off by said cat.

Let your local raptors do their job people.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I'm in the 'Twitter posts aren't memes' side on this. Not even feeling slightly baited by the rage.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

/c/[email protected] - opens in your local instance

[email protected] - opens in it's home instance

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (16 children)

This was my family when I was a kid. We never had a cat for more than 2-5 years because there were coyotes and pumas out there. Except for one cat who lived to old age. I think we had a dozen cats during my childhood. I remember thinking they were happier with their freedom, even though it meant their lives were short.
I know better now. I still think cats are happier when they can go outside, but it's not worth the risk to their lives and also the lives of the local smaller wildlife.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

We let our cats in the garden supervised if they want but they're indoor cats otherwise. One will go out for a short time and come back in if we go in, and the other one has absolutely no interest in going out and would rather cosey up on my pillow.

They're both elderly but have been that way since they were kittens/rescued.

We got them harnesses so we could take them out and see stuff but they weren't all that into it.

We have puzzle games and plenty of toys for them. The oldest loves a puzzle and can out maneuver our dog at them, but the younger one has a single braincell and is as dumb as a box of rocks. She's happy just to sit to your lap and get pets.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

Just make the coyote to be your pet at this point

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (18 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How bad it is depends on where you live, but yeah, for a lot of reasons most of the world probably shouldn't have outdoor housecats. As the article you linked pointed out though, most of the damage is being done by feral cats, and well... that cat's out of the bag, so to speak.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Feral cat populations are created and maintained by outdoor non-feral cats. Lots of people who don't keep their cats indoors also don't get their cats fixed either.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (8 children)

then we should set out a bunch of coyotes,
to keep the feral cat population in check.

what could possibly go wrong?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sure, we could try it in Australia first. They love that kind of thing. It always goes great for them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Nah the coyotes would just all get eaten by the spiders

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Australia already has dingos, which are like coyotes except they eat babies instead of cats.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

You paint a whole house and nobody calls you a painter, but you eat one baby...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"So, we set coyotes loose to catch the cats. Then what? We get a wolf to eat the coyotes? Then we get a tiger to eat the wolf!? WHAT EATS THE TIGER, DAD - TELL ME THAT!"

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

The number of birds killed by cats per year matches ironically the number of animals us humans kill per day for food if we include marine animals. 😄

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Yep, I can't believe the hypocrisy either, pretty much all major cities require that dogs be on a leash or in a yard. Cats though? Can't have them on a leash! Are you crazy!?! 😱

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's almost like cats and dogs are different animals or something.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Yeah, dogs tend to have larger territories than cats when allowed to free-roam, so cats have an easier time adapting a smaller space, hence why they tend to make better apartment pets. Feral cat colonies (which are caused and maintained by non-feral outdoor cats that haven't been fixed) are also larger on average than feral dog packs when they form, amplifying their negative effects on the local ecosystem further. Free roaming cats also have a huge environmental impact, are a major threat to native wildlife, and are the most invasive species in the world. While free-roam dogs do hunt and do also have an impact on the environment, they don't kill native animals on the same scale as cats. Cats will kill even if they're not hungry and don't intend to eat, and free roam cats eat more often in a day than free roam dogs do (up to ~12 times a day for cats, while dogs might eat once a day or even once every 2 to 3 days depending on food availability). Even more reason why we should keep both dogs AND cats inside.

If you want to give your cat more space to work with then leash training, catios, and cat-proof yards are great options! In my neighbourhood a lot of people tie their cats out on leads in their front yards as well. Everything we do for dogs to give them more space without letting them roam free we can do for cats as well, because even though they're different animals, they're both capable of being trained, supervised, or kept in some sort of enclosure.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You're right, dogs don't kill billions of birds a year!

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (10 children)

What happened to using punctuation?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sells the joke better. If you split the sentence into clauses, using commas, then you give the brain a little rest and it would get to the punchline before you read it.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just lost my very beloved barn cat to a suspected coyote attack.

It really sucks. He was a feral cat not deemed suitable for a home and he went from hissing at me for weeks to a total cuddly love...with a wild wall climbing streak.

He knew love, friendship, a warm bed and a full belly but the guilt I have is all consuming. He lived a great life but man...my barn feels very sad and quiet these days.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

It really sounds like you gave him a great life that nobody else would have. Without you they would have died a feral cat only knowing struggle within the unending fight for food and warmth. With you they got to know love and got to leave all that struggle behind. You did good.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Coyotes love him, kids despise him

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

coyotes gotta eat too...

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