• Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    6 days ago

    cats have been allowed outside for over 1000 years

    That’s simply not true. There were never as many outdoor cats as there is today and cats used to have natural predators everywhere to keep environmental balance which is lost today. Keeping all of your pets indoors (or at least backyard) is the only ethically viable position.

    • pulsewidth@lemmy.world
      27·
      6 days ago

      Downvoted by people who don’t like facts. There isn’t a country in the world with a domestic cat population that wouldn’t see a huge benefit to their native wildlife by keeping those pets inside or in a pet run. But people don’t like the change or the effort of doing so, so they ignore this inconvenient fact.

      • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
        20·
        6 days ago

        Indeed, pet owners simply don’t want to hear the truth which is incredibly irresponsible.

        Even if you really must let your cat out there are things you can do like colorful collars with an attached bell which:

        The BBScc reduced the number of birds brought home by 37% (probability of reduction of 88%). The number of mammals brought home was reduced by 54–62%, but only with the additional bell (probability of reduction of >99%)

        https://zenodo.org/records/15210938

        I’ve never seen a cat owner who cares enough to even do that when we have clear evidence this works. The naturalist argument of “oh they are local animals” is such an irresponsible cop out where they can’t even bother to put a collar on to diminish the damage. It’s inexcusable laziness, nothing else.

        • Tiger666@lemmy.ca
          9·
          6 days ago

          Do you live in a building? Like something that was built by humans?

          Then you have killed more animals than any cat will ever kill. Your continued use of any kind of lodging is killing animals.

          Please stop living inside a man made structure and help destroy said structure so birds can live and take back their habitats.

          After you do that, I will stop letting my 15 year old cat outside.

          Have a great life!

            • Tiger666@lemmy.ca
              3·
              6 days ago

              It’s OK, I thought what you wrote was not worthy of my time either, but then I decided to educate actual intelligent people, so I responded.

        • Crazyblu@lemmy.zip
          1·
          5 days ago

          Strap a collar so that your cat ends up crazy or hanged surely there wont be any animal cruelty after that right guys right ??

      • kreskin@lemmy.world
        3·
        6 days ago

        We really are a bunch of dumb apes, and we are doomed as a species. Its just a matter of time.