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Do you react the same way to people using pesticides or mole traps? A pest is a pest is a pest. If you want the moles to stay safe, don't let them into your neighbor's yards. Same goes for cats. That's why I keep mine inside.
Yeah, sure, I'm not like "crash through their backyard wall and encourage the behavior" but also fuck people who act entitled as fuck and macho, just out to harm other living beings because they entered an imaginary zone next to their assumed home.
That's not why people kill pests. If you find that your house is infested with cockroaches, do you just let them be because you don't want to seem entitled?
Edit: also
But you're making fun of people for acting "macho" for defending their property from destructive animals. Lol
I will bet my left testicle that someone is gonna read this comment, and think I'm calling cats cockroaches. 100% guaranteed.
Intentionally missing the point, are we? Poor bait fam. Troll elsewhere.
I don't think I missed your point at all. You were expressing derision at people who kill pests. I asked how you feel about pests in your own home, and you didn't answer.
You... You think somebody let's moles onto people's yards? A pest is just an animal doing it's animal thing. It's humans that think their thought up idea of property gives them the right to kill another beeing.
How do you misunderstand my comment this badly? No, but people are letting cats into people's yards. Cats, like moles, are pests, and homeowners can deal with them like any other pests.
If you want to protect a mole, don't let it into someone's yard. If you want to protect a cat, don't let it into someone's yard.
Yes, and cats doing cat things makes them pests.
I just watched my cat torture a mouse the other day. Bit down on its head and popped it's eye, opened its gut, and left it twitching on the floor. Why do you think humans have a monopoly on killing animals? At least we have some justification for it, and typically try to do it quickly and painlessly.
Don't get me wrong—I'm not in favor of killing cats. I'm actually in favor of their survival, which is why I'm saying that you shouldn't let it wander off unsupervised into a place where it's likely to get killed.