• deweydecibel@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Realistically, outdoor cats don’t travel much. They just hang out in their neighborhood, chill in their favorite spots, etc.

    Cats have their territory and that’s where they spend their time, doing cat things. It’s just that an outdoor cat’s territory isn’t limited by walls.

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      10 months ago

      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

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        It’s entitled of YOU too think that the land, plants, wildlife, and ecology these creatures have lived off of for millennia belong to you. We all share a planet, it’s not up to humans to be the arbiters of who can have what and how much and at what time etc etc .

        Cats may not be sapient animals, but they are sentient.

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          Blah blah blah, legally your cat is your PROPERTY. And if your pet becomes my pest on MY property, it will be dealt with as such. I don’t live in the wild, I live in my home on my property, keep your shit bag cat off of mine.

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    My cat’s quality of life was dogshit indoors. She had bad allergic reactions all the time, would stop eating, Vet bills piled up with no explanations. I let her roam the neighborhood now, shes happy as a pig in shit. Her weight is stable, shes not breaking out in rashes all the time, and she entertains the neighbors. Cry me a river about all the mice and bunnies she kills.

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      YOU are directly responsible for the extinction of animals. I hope you are proud of yourself.

      “Cats have contributed to the extinction of 63 species of birds, mammals, and reptiles in the wild”

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        YOU, as a human, are infinitely more responsible for hundreds of extinct species so stfu

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          You do realize Humans are the one who spread cats across the globe right? The extinctions caused by outdoor pet and stray cats wouldn’t have happened if human’s hadnt have brought them with them you absolute ham sandwich.

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    10 months ago

    Outdoor cat: “today I killed 300 birds and permanently altered the local ecosystem”

    Indoor cat: “hehe I shit in a box”

    • CashewNut 🏴󠁢󠁥󠁧󠁿@lemmy.world
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      And so begins a new battle in the eternal war between Americans with indoor cats and others with outdoor cats.

      It’s pretty difficult to actually find an indoor cat in the UK. In the US it’s common.