Cats should stay inside. They live a lot longer inside as they don’t come into contact with risks like other cats, predators, stray dogs (family lost 2 cats this way), diseases and parasites from birds and rodents.
They should also stay inside because house cats kill for sport and they kill between 1-4 Billion birds in the US every year, driving some species into threatened, endangered, and even extinct status.
I get your point and I do not advocate to let cats freely roam outside because of their impact on local wildlife but by this logic wild animals should all be kept in zoos as they live a lot longer there.
but by this logic wild animals should all be kept in zoos
Domestic housecat is not a wild animal any longer. It’s closely related to wild species, but it is different. It’s a domesticated animal, meaning humans changed it over generations. This is the same for dogs, cows, pigs, chickens and most other animals we keep for food or work.
We don’t and we shouldn’t let domesticated animals loose in the world intentionally, barring a few exceptions for controlled grazing. They no longer have a place in the ecosystem and releasing them in sufficient numbers could greatly upset it as we’ve seen with domestic cats.
Especially since domestic cats don’t need to hunt. People who let them out provide them shelter and food. Therefore the only reason cats get out is to prey upon local wildlife for entertainment. That’s akin to letting your dogs out to run around in packs murdering any squirrels, rabbits or cats they find. Or letting your sheep or cows wander from your farm into the local town where they cause problems with traffic.
There is no reason to let your domesticated cats out to wander except for a misplaced sense that they “should”.
Like most things in life it’s not so black and white. Some domestic cats don’t hunt when let outside. Also most cats like going outside and by your argument you may as well keep them in a cage as that is plenty of shelter and food.
Lol. They like it? That’s your excuse? Pathetic.
Go fuck yourself
Lmao. Keep going. you’re only getting more pathetic.
By that logic, Humans should be locked up too. We kill for sport and have lead so many species to extinction or endangered status.
Their bird kill is exaggerated
They unfortunately kill tons of birds, accounting for three quarters of non-natural bird deaths. :/
Non-paywalled National Geographic link: https://archive.ph/Ysy0C
The problem with this is that the US is notably one of the worst countries to let a cat outside, but because the US dominates the western internet everyone who speaks English gets scolded for leaving a cat outside even if if they have other bigger local environmental problems to solve instead.
Personalty for my local area i would much rather have we stop having grass gardens because there is a lack of diversity of local plants, or to stop driving cars because roads are creating floods.
People who call themselves “mother” or “father” to a pet creep me out.
People who get creeped out by what other people choose to refer to themselves as creep me out.
Costs you zero dollars not to be a dick about it.
Same goes to you with your original comment
Yeah, so I was told.
I’m just giving you back the same energy you came here with 🤷
I call them my furry friends. I am perfectly aware of how that sounds.
I like to think of pets as my friends, but deep down I can’t help but feel they are my prisoners. I don’t have pets anymore.
Costs you zero dollars not to be a dick about it
I wasn’t being a dick. It creeps me out. What do you care?
