Comment on Australia wants to force cats to stay inside or give them a curfew because they are murdering so many other animals they are a threat to the country's biodiversity

• Alto@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Remember folks, adopt, don't shop. Not only is it just significantly more moral, mutts are far less likely to have health issues from inbreeding that will shorten their lives. You get more time with your four legged loved ones

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• Rhaedas@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And the pet stores that buy from those breeders.

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• CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean, if such a campaign is ever completely successful, along with one for capturing or fixing stray and feral animals, there would need to be some amount of breeding of them or they’d eventually go extinct. Perhaps with regulation on both practices that lead to unnecessary health problems (like inbreeding or breeding for harmful traits like squashed faces) and on numbers to avoid breeding more of a specific sort of animal than there exists demand for.

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  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Maybe add a safeguard to it, so that when local animal shelters are at 10% capacity the regulation is temporarily lifted or something. Realistically, it would never be totally successful anyway.

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• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Are you confusing ‘breeder’ with ‘pet mill’? Ghetto breeding was horrible to my family involved in animal care and salvation. Actual breeders, though, not so much.

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  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m talking about anyone who intentionally takes an unneutered male animal and an unspayed female animal and intentionally puts them together so they can make and sell babies. Especially inbreeders. The only purebred animal that I can understand is sheepdogs, because they aren’t bred for looks, they’re bred for intelligence.

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    • NuPNuA@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      All older breeds were breed for some use at some time.

      Greated there are some modern breeds that are done for looks only and now care for the dogs health which I agree is an issue, but preserving historic breeds has merit.

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• NuPNuA@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean, there’s responsible breading and irresponsible breeding. My mum has always kept setters of both the Irish and English varieties. The breeders she gets them aren’t just pumping endless dogs out for profit, they’re taking good care of the bitches.

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  • Alto@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Unless the shelters in your area are consistently well below capacity, it's still incredibly immoral

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    • NuPNuA@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      We don’t really have “shelters” in the same way as the US in the UK. As far as I know passes like the RSPCA and Battersea Dogs home aren’t at capacity, they don’t publicise that they are. The one thing we do well in the UK is love our pets.

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