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Comment on Keeping pet cats indoors would save millions of native animals and billions of dollars. So what's stopping us?

naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Benefits for cats: No FIV infections, no car injuries, safe temperatures, no fights, no parasites.

Benefits for wildlife: no murder, fewer vectors, no loss of habitat to cats

Benefits for community: No digging up poop while gardening, no roaming cats triggering sensor lights/setting off other pets/damaging property with claws, no toxo transmission, no digging up poo while gardening/losing plants to cat piss

Cons to cats: Keepers must provide entertainment

Cons to keepers: Exercise the level of basic responsibility every other keeper of pets is expected to, or parent with children.

Issue: Controversial???

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TheHolm@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Try to keep non de-sexed cat indoor. I tried, no way it can work. In the end poor boy lost his balls.

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- Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  Try to keep non de-sexed cat
  
  I’mma stop you right there. No, don’t do that.
  
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- naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Balls vs literally thousands of wildlife. What a hard decision?
  
  Letting a desexed cat roam is literally hatred for this land. Do you want more feral cats? desex pets, it’s again basic responsibility.
  
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