Post #544608

2026-03-06 01:07 UTC

Wild birds and mammals don’t get pet food and warm houses to sleep in. You have elevated a predator above the natural order. When his range is over hunted, your cat should starve or leave. However now he won’t. He’ll go home,get food and go back out to murder everything he can find. Imagine every single other cat owner giving their pets around you the same competitive advantage and you should be able to see the problem even in areas where cats are “native”. Next time I’m walking my dog’s I’m going to let them shit in your garden seeing as you have no problem with your cats shitting in mine. Maybe I’ll let them hunt your cat too. I don’t want my precious babies being bored. Except I won’t. Because I’m responsible and empathetic. You’re being incredibly selfish.

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@gmtom@lemmy.world 2026-03-07 03:23

Pet cats hunt a tiny fraction of what feral cats (and other animals that rely on hunting) do, precisely because they don’t need to hunt to survive. Even then, statistically the vast majority of animals they do manage to hunt are injured/ill/incompetive and unlikely to make it to the next breeding system even if they weren’t hunted, which can actually be beneficial to local ecosystems and animal populations as those animals won’t take up resources from members of the species that are likely to make it to breed. This is backed by evidence of pet cats ownership increasing while simultaneously the populations of their most preyed upon species are actually increasing too. The only real danger cats pose to local ecosystems is feral cats, which is (one of) the reason I’m an active part of a local trap, neuter, release program where I’ve helped neuter dozens of cats, so I’ve done way more to help the issue than I would be depriving my cat of going outside, and likely more than you’ve done. Plus windows kill as many birds as cats, both domestic and feral do, but I’m willing to bet you live in a building that has windows right? For the sake of your own quality of life, so are you not being as selfish as you accuse me of being??? But I’m guessing by your, Franky borderline psychotic response, that you will barely even read anything I’ve said, disregard it entirely and double down on being houlier-than-thou and threatening a random person on the internet. Because that’s how these things always gom

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