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[–] Son_of_dad 18 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Murder local wildlife, cause property damage to neighbors, kill neighbors pets, spread disease. Roaming cats suck, and so do their entitled owners who think that everyone's property belongs to their pet

[–] Umbraveil 11 points 11 months ago (3 children)

While we're at it, let's get rid of birds that shit on everything, deer that eat our gardens, raccoons that get in our trash, skunks that dig up our grass ....

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They brought up how cats disturb the ecosystem and spread disease. You brought up how other animals can disturb people's capital. These two are not equivalent.

[–] 13esq 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Cats are natural in many parts of the world.

The Scottish wild cat for instance came to the UK across a land bridge 9000 years ago.

This thread is full of people that have probably never left America, regurgitating virtue signalling nonsense that they know very little about.

I understand that in some ecosystems that pet cats are devastating, but it's just not true for most of the world.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

There's an enormous difference in the natural occurrence of native wild cats and feral or roaming domestic cats.
No one is arguing against native wild cats being around, but against artificially introducing a mesopredator into the ecosystem.

[–] Son_of_dad -5 points 11 months ago

Right... Idiot

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I guess some cats love to piss on doors but I don't think much if any property damage is being done by pet cats. I don't think I have ever heard of a cat kiling a pet either.

Cats should be indoor only because they are murder hobos when it comes to wild birds and small animals.

Spreading diesease I can't comment on. What diesease do cats kept as pets spread?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Roaming pet cats scratch screen doors, destroy door mats, piss on doors, shit in gardens, kill wildlife for sport, fight other cats, catch diseases from other cats (pet and feral), get pregnant, get hit by cars, get mauled by dogs. All of these things happen even in countries where cats are “native”.

[–] Son_of_dad 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

My neighbors cats used to wreck my herb garden and such. One of them once tried to rip through my window screen to get inside my house and get my pet parrot. I would have made that cat disappear if he had gotten in, and his owner would have never known what happened, and that would be their own fault

Can you imagine if dog owners just opened the door at night, and let their dogs fuck off to do whatever? They'd rightly be charged and have their pets taken away

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

You got plenty of dogs owners leaving their pets with small children.

And those children getting mauled to death while the owner claims they would never do something since they are such a friendly family pet.