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108 points

The 1 to 4 billion animals killed by outdoor cats every year: X_X

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Humans kill much, much more animals.

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-31 points

I’m glad to know my outdoor cat kills animals

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-13 points

Agreed, lol. These people are way too sensitive about pests and birds dying.

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3 points

Why are you proud of lacking empathy for other living creatures? Are you hollow inside? When will you become part of figuring out a balance, instead of being proud of the problem?

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4 points

Wheres your chaperone?

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21 points

Do you get off on animals going extinct? What is wrong with you?

“Outdoor domestic cats are a recognized threat to global biodiversity. Cats have contributed to the extinction of 63 species of birds, mammals, and reptiles in the wild”

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-19 points

Pretty fuckin low on the priority list to be honest. Cats have been doing this forever. Humans are way worse.

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I miss the internet where people could laugh at a silly comics instead of writing and upvoting this.

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3 points

Mate, we’re old enough now to have to actually fix shit instead of waxing lyrical about our youth. Let’s work together, and still have a laugh.

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“Who cares that I club seals? Johnny next door clubs 50 walruses. Sure theyre both going extinct now, but he gets 50 a day! I only get 1!! How could you care that Im clubbing seals with all those dead walruses?”

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10 points

Who says that they’re not?

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53 points

Not to mention all the outdoor cats that are themselves killed or horribly injured.

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The only cat I’ve had that I’ve felt okay with letting roam was a stray that came to us declawed, so he was mostly harmless. We still ended up making him an inside cat because we caught him sneaking into the neighbor’s house to steal their cat’s food and poop in its litterbox.

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6 points

Declawing is cruel. It’s basically cutting off your first knuckle.

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13 points

Declawed cats are a coyotes favorite meal. Big enough to feed the kids and cant even fight back

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4 points

But what if he was a guest there? Maybe the neighbour’s cat told him “make yourself at home?” Did you even ask him? Psh …

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22 points

I know a guy who went through 5 cats in a few months because he was getting them, letting them out, and they were getting hit by cars since he lives on a super busy road that has heavy semi traffic.

It really reminds me of that one joke “I keep having to buy a new car because my neighbors dog keeps eating it” " it sounds like you’re just feeding cats to the neighbors dog"

Dude just didn’t seem to grasp simple addition that his new cat + outside in a bad area = squish

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3 points

What, he was like “huh Snuffy hasn’t been around for a few days. Welp, time to get a new cat I suppose!” every two weeks?

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Sounds like Pet Sematary.

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11 points

Yup, fuck your outdoor cats.

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14 points

Absolute environmental disaster, they need to be spayed and neutered and occasionally culled by any competent local government.

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21 points

You’ll also need to ban pet cats from walking outside without a leash. Our cats were neutered, didn’t stop them from killing any mice or birds they could get their paws on.

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Oh no, the horror.

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The reason they need to be spayed and neutered instead of outright killed is because culls don’t really work on animals that reproduce that quickly. Whenever a spot opens up for another cat to make its territory, it gets immediately claimed. There are a ton of research papers that show spaying and neutering is more effective at lowering stray populations, and that euthanization is more costly on top of being less effective.

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