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

• plant_based_monero@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean even if they would rather be outside, they live longer inside, they are healthier and they would have better deads

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• nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We’ve selected for treaties that make some of them better at being indoor companions or mouse hunters.

  Hairless cats for just one instance.

  These aren’t wild animals.

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  • Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Okay, sure, but that doesn’t apply to the vast majority of cats. Your average house cat is much more a wild animal than a dog for example and it’s quite ridiculous to think they’d prefer being indoors.

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• Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No.

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• Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I could literally leave my back door wide open and Cerys would not step foot out it. She hates the outdoors. Punkin’s stuck his nose out a few times, but it holds no real interest for him and Misha - who was an abandoned cat that literally decided to move in with us and has lived an extensive part of her life as an in-out cat could not give a shit about going outside.

  Needs are met - food, safety, security and entertainment - they’re very happy.

  But all of that is downright irrelevant. We are talking about an introduced species that wreaks unimaginable ecological damage. Why the almighty fuck would a cat’s fee fees override that? Not to mention the cat safety issues. I mean i’m sure punkin would be ‘happier’ with his balls intact merrily raping and impregnating his sister and mother but that shit ain’t happening either.

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