Keep your fluffy murderballs inside the house. This means your cat and your deranged sex toys.
Do not look directly at Fluffy Murderball
Do not taunt Fluffy Murderball
when i was younger and living with my parents i actually attached a camera to see if our outdoor cat killed anything
for like 2 months it was just this lazy fucker laying under a porch
In that case it's simple enough to net off an area for the cat to be outside.
Using an example like this is no different than someone going out and claiming that they didn't wear a mask and are still healthy.
It's still a serious problem and your anecdote doesn't change that.
oh yeah no im definitely not saying it isnt an issue. im just saying put a camera on your cat to see if its an issue for you
had a semi-stray cat that could make a six foot vertical leap and catch a sparrow in it's mouth. he would do this several times a day. these things are apex predators
I once watched my cat do that to some sparrows that were chilling on top of a six foot stone wall. Motherfucker ran all the way up it, then used the last of his momentum to dive down onto a bird, biting down on it's neck in one swift motion before bringing it back down with him as he fell. I swear it looked more like a shark attack than any mammal hunting style. I love cats but holy shit they really are nature's perfect killing machines. Little xenomorphs, one and all
these things are apex predators
Gonna be that guy here. No, they aren't. Not small cats, anyway.
Edit
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_cat
Feral cats are prey of feral dogs, dingoes, coyotes, caracals[54] and birds of prey.[9]
Doesn't this just mean they have no natural predators? I've always heard that cats were considered apex.
You don't know what the term means then.
Nothing hunts feral cats.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_cat
Feral cats are prey of feral dogs, dingoes, coyotes, caracals[54] and birds of prey.[9]
Almost nowhere though. Certainly not in the urban areas where all of those predators have been eliminated by us.
Most of the country (and world) is not urban, so that's actually mostly everywhere.
Wish I did, then maybe something would solve the cat problem.
Just keep your cat inside, it's not difficult. If the owner lets it out they've put it and the native animals around it in danger.
Letting a pet cat outside reduces its lifespan just by risk of being hit by a car, being poisoned, being caught in animal traps, etc.
That cat also kills several other animals, each with just as much value as a cat. Endemic species that actually belong there.
No, the mouse has more. It isn't invasive and actively destroying the environment due to being introduced into a foreign habitat by humans.
Sentient creatures deserve rights? Like the right not to be killed by a species we introduced with nothing to stop its spread.
Real leftist hours huh. Good on you, you piece of filth.
You're not a leftist, you're a psychopath with no empathy for living creatures outside of the ones you own and that exist to give you joy.
Yes, nothing more Maoist than unleashing a plague to kill native birds.
Id love to see how much of the cats genociding birds is corporate propaganda
Tbh that makes some sense. "It wasn't our poisoning of the atmosphere, it was your damn cat."
Many outside the beltway don't know this, but Sesame Street is right next to K Street
Love to see a thread even on Chapo go right towards "let's not do anything about this problem, it's globalist agit prop."
why would they need to when outdoor cats already have half the life expectancy of indoor cats
EDIT: whoops I said outdoor twice the first time
Truly that post should be used as the gold standard of posts henceforth on that site. Someone referred to outdoor cats as toxoplasmic homicide rats and I had to sign off for the day lmao
They're literally killing off all the monk seals in Hawaii, the toxo gets in the water and they keel over and die.
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/toll-toxoplasmosis-protozoal-disease-has-now-claimed-lives-12-monk-seals-and-left
Toxo only breeds in the bodies of domesticated cats.
(edit: I should also note that monk seals are the most critically endangered species of seal, and the Hawaiian monk seal only lives in Hawaii. Once toxo kills them all, they're gone.)
Damn. Yeah, toxoplasmosis is no joke. Slightly unrelated but still relevant, my grandma fuckin died because she got a stroke and then - while in recovery at home - got scratched by one of her young cats and developed cat scratch disease, which then infected her liver.
That's horrible, fuck. There's fears toxo affects humans in ways we don't understand yet too. Man that's a shit way to die, I'm sorry to hear that.
Yeah I was really upset about it when it happened over a decade ago, but as I've grown older I've come to the realization that she probably would've preferred being taken out by one of her beloved cats rather than suffering another 5-10 years with the after-effects of the stroke. Glass half full or something, I guess.
I guess. Opt me in for a mid-sleep death, not a liver failure cat scratch.
I love cats. I love them more than dogs. My cat still killed a pet bird yesterday that was in our family for years by somehow getting a paw inside the cage.
Bird lives matter too.
That's horrible, I hope you're doing alright. What was your bird's name?
My family has never bothered to name most of our birds. RIP unnamed diamond dove, now only one diamond dove survives
(Yes I do feel terrible about having a stronger attachment to Minecraft pets than the real birds my family has had throughout the years)
Diamond doves are beautiful birds! Did you have some sort of aviary for them or just kept them in a cage?
The bird is caged, and I am aware that it's downright evil to have a bird all by itself without anyone or anything to socialize with. I might just get a little mirror so it doesn't go insane.
Mirrors can have some weird effects on birds, they'll get into obsessive or aggressive behaviors with them, I'd search around about that.
That's parrot advice though, I can't say about doves.
Really I'd just look out for a bigger cage on local marketplaces/ buy one off of Amazon and give them some simple toys. Check out r/PetDoves, there's a number of threads and examples of people's setups there.
i do wonder if a toxoplasmosis pandemic is resonsible for a lot of dumb human behavior. like does it really affect people, seems like no one has a clear answer!
Well, you'll be glad to know that with climate change - the parasite has been found in places like the artic, which were once too cold for it to thrive
Or maybe it doesn't do much of anything at all to humans and what we're seeing is attributable to just plain old greed.
Or long term effects of lead poisoning. Now there's something that we know affects humans.
We have a blue tit nest box, and this year's fledging was a disaster because of having to protect them from the neighbourhood cats. I wouldn't hurt one but it's a bloody pain in the ass.
They were but but it did lead to two of the three fledglings dying before they'd got out of the garden since we couldn't leave them out overnight 😠
If you wouldn't trap the invasive species that is killing your endemic wildlife, you have succumbed to liberalism.
I am el chapo, I speak for the birds, which you seem to go after like balls to a turd!
Many people who "love animals" just like their presence but do not care for their wellbeing.
sounds like my roommate and her six month old dachshund, who one of her hookups referred to as 'the most spoiled, petulant dog I've ever seen in my life' and added that its behavior was a reflection of the owner. I didn't like the dude at all but when she told me he said that to her, suddenly I had a desire to become his best friend
A friend of mine had a cat like that; he referred to it as his "part-time cat."
Any rat-faced bastard who comes after this feline I claim as a companion will be getting a mouthful of .50 Action Express delivered straight from the fluteless barrel of my Mark XIX Desert Eagle.
This violates no terms of the goddamn code of conduct. I know my rights.
We need GMO cats that fear the sun. Keep them indoors for half the day at least.
GMO pets are a good idea actually, breeding the murder out of them would fix a lot.
They're literally releasing GMO mosquitoes in Florida to eradicate them currently.
That cat is out of the bag.
