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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

most place around me won't even let you adopt a cat if you don't say you'll keep it inside.

I've yet to see an animal shelter in my entire country that doesn't have this claws in its adoption contract. I haven't run an exhaustive search (there are over 4,000 shelters), but I've checked dozens.

You would think that every single animal welfare group agreeing that cats should be kept inside would be enough to convince people that maybe cats should be kept inside, but alas

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I assumed it'd be pretty much all of them, but didn't feel like researching to be sure. It's really surprising how so many lemmy users, who are generally very much on the side of science and research, will completely ignore the people who are experts in this subject and assume they know better from their own experiences.

I'm always surprised by how divisive of a topic this is.