• Umbraveil@lemmy.world
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    1 年前

    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 …

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      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.

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        1 年前

        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.

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          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.

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      These people are fucking insane. Like they don’t go outside ever.

      Can you believe an ANIMAL killed another ANIMAL? 😱😱😱😱

      • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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        I have a pet parrot, a neighbors cat almost got through my window screen to attack my pet. That cat would not have survived, and then you can go “OMG A HUMAN KILLED A PEST” and we’ll see if you’re fair about it

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          You can leave that “S” out of “pest” and see how everyone would disagree with you.