Comment on Keeping cats indoors is a rare solution where everybody wins

• Goodie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The question is how?

  Taking outdoor cats and making them indoor is pretty cruel.

  It seems easiest to first require all cats to be regged/microchipped, and a few years in start a “cats born after X date must be kept indoors and not roaming.”

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Every damn time. “waaaah but outdoor cat” an outdoor cat has a lifespan about a tenth of that of an indoor cat. Outdoor cats are quite happy to be indoor cats if you invest the barest modicum of effort into making an environment that meets their needs rather than just going “baah fluffy murder mittens wants to go and kill natives and if I don’t let him he makes noises at me”

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  • trk@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Taking outdoor cats and making them indoor is pretty cruel.

    ???

    Source needed

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    • Landbuffalo@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Have you ever tried to stop a cat that has had outdoor access for years from going outside?

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      • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        YES. IT’S NOT HARD.

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    • Goodie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      While it can be done well and with kindness to the cat, its also very easy to do with cruelty.

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      • trk@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That links content does not match the title you’ve given it.

        Keep your cat inside.

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  • princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Where do you live, in Australia or NZ, that doesn’t have a requirement that all Cats (and Dogs for that matter) be registered and microchipped?

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    • Goodie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Its all lf new zealand. Regional councils may have different rules.

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      • princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Wow, that’s disappointing. In Victoria, both have been required since I was really little. I remember taking our cat & dog into a free council clinic to get them chipped. There’s also been a dusk to dawn cat curfew for about a decade. I thought NZ would at least be as progressive as my state on the issue.

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• Salvo@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m surprised by this.

  Considering that NZ is the country where one individual is responsible for an entire extinction, and modern NZ is one of the most progressive countries in the world.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyall's_wren

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  • batmangrundies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m sorry but New Zealanders generally make Aussies look like Woodstock-era hippies.

    They are very conservative generally.

    I wish people would stop putting NZ on a pedestal. They have ceded often to agricultural interests over environmental concerns resulting in untold damage. The damage they have done to their soil and waterways is apocalyptic.

    I always giggle at the idea of Billionaires “escaping” there not realising the soil is completely depleted already and the water table is poisoned by agricultural runoff.

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