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[–] 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Im so mad with people not willing to put down feral cats, the live of a single cat is worth more than the live of the hundreds of wild animals that it will kill in its lifetime? Fucking not, but some people are delusional and only think in the cute cat pics. They say ignorance is bliss

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    TNR works absolutely fine at reducing feral cat populations. The issue is not that people are not killing enough cats, it's that getting a cat spayed or neutered can be expensive and therefore inaccessible to a lot of people, and a lot of dickhead liberals just expect poor people to not have pets if they can't keep $10,000 USD in the bank at all times to cover emergency vet expenses (legit shit you'll see bandied around as advice for "responsible" owners). An effective response would be offering free spay, neuter, and chip services for all pets, alongside people keeping their pets indoors, and maybe offering stuff like pine litter for free to address some reasons why people might want their cat to be outside.

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  • [+] -8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You're an entitled speciist! If cats are good at hunting, it's just nature's way of creating balance and it's none of your goddamn business to prevent that. In my personal opinion people like you (entitled speciist scum) are redundant and we don't need you on planet Earth.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    CATS WERE NOT NATIVE TO AUSTRALIA IN THE FIRST PLACE!

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  • [+] -8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Neither were 99% of australians, you illiterate dummy.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And we can decide to not decimate the ecosystem. Cats don't know any better.

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    It is similar to the Dodo bird. Humans(Dutch settlers) brought Dogs and other predators to the island(Mauritius) where Dodo birds lived. Over time, the dogs and humans overhunted the bird to extinction. dogs were good guides and predators, same thing with the cats we brought to Australia. Humanity has done unfixable damage by bringing species that would not know better.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm not really sure what your point is.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    We brought the cats in the first place

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Still not sure how that applies to what I said

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It is similar to the Dodo bird. Humans(Dutch settlers) brought Dogs and other predators to the island(Mauritius) where Dodo birds lived. Over time, the dogs and humans overhunted the bird to extinction. dogs were good guides and predators, same thing with the cats we brought to Australia. Humanity has done unfixable damage by bringing along species that would not know better.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Okay? I'm still not sure how that applies to the conversation

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If you follow the chain… We brought the cats. By saying they did not know better and we do know better, We should have known about how invasive species can dominate ecosystems and wreck everything around them. In fact, In Pennsylvania, they have to kill Spotted Lantern flies(from asian flights) because the spotted lantern flies would eat all the plants that native animals depend on. This is why food is inspected on flights(the risk of foreign diseases/parasites). The native species on their land did not adapt to foreign predators. We did not know better(like the cats) and now we do.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    It is similar to the Dodo bird. Humans(Dutch settlers) brought Dogs and other predators to the island(Mauritius) where Dodo birds lived. Over time, the dogs and humans overhunted the bird to extinction. dogs were good guides and predators, same thing with the cats we brought to Australia. Humanity has done unfixable damage by bringing species that would not know better.

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  • [+] -19 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I definitely think one pet is worth hundreds of wild animals. I even believe that one pet's happiness is worth the lives of hundreds of wild animals.

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    Buy biodiversity is more important than the happiness of all those pets. Something should be done if this is a real threat to the ecosystem.

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