Selfishness

Benefits for cats: No FIV infections, no car injuries, safe temperatures, no fights, no parasites.

Benefits for wildlife: no murder, fewer vectors, no loss of habitat to cats

Benefits for community: no roaming cats triggering sensor lights/setting off other pets/damaging property with claws, no toxo transmission, no digging up poo while gardening/losing plants to cat piss

Cons to cats: Keepers must provide entertainment

Cons to keepers: Exercise the level of basic responsibility every other keeper of pets is expected to, or parent with children.

Issue: Controversial??????????

I think this is the the thread with the highest ratio of downvoted top level comments to upvotes ones I've ever seen on Lemmy

The discussion here has gone a bit off the rails, and it's reached the point where discussion is no longer meaningful. As such I am locking this thread. If you believe you have something meaningful to contribute to the broader discussion create a new post.

In my neighbourhood in the city, there's some people who take their cat out in the park on a leash. I've done it myself. Though I also let one out on his own. He got spooked by a reindeer and then stayed inside for a whole day lol

Mainly they were indoor cats though. I don't think mine killed anything