Post #565257

2026-03-07 05:13 UTC

I’m glad you’re aware of the issue and I think it’s great that you’re involved in spay and release programs. However literally everything else you wrote is at odds with research that has been conducted. The British Ecological Society (one of the “non-american” countries you referenced above) has a great article on the horrific impact domestic cats have. I suggest you read it: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…/pan3.10073 To address some other problematic statements: The only real danger cats pose to local ecosystems is feral cats Every time you let your pet cat outside, there’s no guarantee it comes back. Feral cats aren’t a self sustaining ecosystem of felines that spring from the earth. Aside from that, you’re also impacting other humans. My neighbour’s cat shits in my garden every night, cat shit carries pathogens like toxoplasmosis that can cause pregnant women to miscarry and can literally make children go blind. The only reason I don’t sit out waiting with a pellet gun like I would for other pests is because I like the mangy bugger. My younger sister was also attacked while she was playing outside in our back garden by one of the neighbors cats. She still has the scar on her lip to prove it. Do you not give a shit about what your cat might be doing when you’re not being responsible for it? Imagine if I just let my dogs roam around the streets unsupervised. I’m guessing by your, Franky borderline psychotic response, I think you should really check yourself here. It’s too easy to make fun of crazy cat people for this to descend into petty name calling.

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@gmtom@lemmy.world 2026-03-07 15:02

The BES article you linked is more about conservation law than actual impacts and the studies it uses as example are primarily from places like north America and Australia where cats are invasive. In places like the UK cats have been here for literally thousands of years and used to be far more independent and reliant on hunting, so any damage they would have done to our ecosystem would have been done a thousand years ago. They mostly are self sustaining, which is why TNR is so important. And so do foxes and birds and rats and voles and every other kind of animal that passes through your garden. And I really want you to take a moment to appreciate you just come straight from arguing that outdoor cats are bad because they kill animals to talking about killing animals yourself. Once again, you’re a hypocrite and you don’t actually care about these animals you’re simply looking for an excuse to hate other people and feel morally superior to them. Cool and I was attacked by a dog that came off its lead as a kid. But if I tried to tell you that people shouldn’t take there dogs for a walk, even on a lead and you were a selfish person that doesn’t give a shit about other people because you take your dog on walks, you would just (rightly) think I’m crazy. Yes I do, I worry about him getting injured or doing something stupid, but it’s the same with kids, but we still let them play outside, because keeping them inside their entire lives would be incredibly cruel. Nah I’m good. I’m not the one making threats of violence over the internet. Also you literally started this with petty name calling, so it’s pretty rich of you to start clutching your pearls now lil guy.

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