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If you let your cat roam, you're shit. Not only do they die, but they kill wildlife, other pets, and cause property damage. No other pet owner feels entitled to everyone else's property being their pet's playground but cat owners.
Cats on the street have an average lifespan between one to 5 years, pretty sad.
This must be a cultural thing because cats wonder all over the place in my country. No one has a problem with it.
They quite literally only stated facts, so you're not really saying anything useful.
Your country might also just be your own sphere, if people don't have problems with these obvious issues and zero concerns for their cats health then maybe they should change.
Except for the preface stating the opinion that people that let their cats roam are shit.
That's quite an annoying comment to make but it does make them sympathetic to me, obviously you can't judge these people if they don't have the knowledge not to do it.
I don't think that's how cats work, as they're perfectly happy and can absolutely thrive inside which has probably also been proven. The data about cat lifespans outside vs inside does not lie, It's not a conspiracy sadly.
And to add on to that, in my experience cats can not avoid slow driving cars with the biggest success rate. Cat doors can also be used inside, but cat doors are cute either way.
They have a point - different place, different culture. You can't simply ask people to change just becauss it doesn't fit your mold - why not try to understand them instead. Different culture has different problems and priorities. The west has advanced in such a way that the issues that used big issues to them were solved and no longer becoming problems to them. So they have the capacity to find smaller problems to cherry pick and solve. But for some other places, they still have to face big issues that these smaller issues are not important enough to be prioritised. They will find you weird if you ask them to become a better person by having cats indoor when they have they other bigger priority to deal with.
I find people that don't travel a lot and see the world besides theirs tend to have an opinion like yours. They don't realize that they are different world beyond their realm. So, instead of asking people to change, why not try to understand why they are what they are.
I didn't say they should change right now, which is what you seem to think that I said. My opinion still stands on this, they should change and they can change.
And no, I do and have travelled a lot throughout my life and understand cultural differences and the like in case you wanted to keep commenting on that. It doesn't matter, change can and will always happen.
Then, let look at these three places as simple studies.
That's only three places. You go to different places, they have their own niche issues. Until they can solve their problems or change their culture, they can't simply change just because you tell them what they're doing are bad for the environment.
You've just repeated what you've already said, and I'm now having to repeat what I said.
For point one that you made, birds like that don't simply go extinct in one place and OP never said they did so I don't know what you're going after.
For point two and three, I'll repeat that I again did not say they need to change right now or the cat specific problem will change anytime soon or even in our lifetime. I also never said that I thought they cared.
And I again don't get why you're trying to pick at me personally, especially about how temperature change in a house works.
I'm going to stop replying after this most likely, as you're writing as if I have said things that I have not which is pointless to a conversation.
I'm just saying. It's cultural.
That is indeed what you said, you can read what I said above.
it's ok if you live in a countryside somewhere.
can't imagine letting my pet just roam around a fucking city though
Okay, I'll bite: Half your accusations are nonsensical. Cats kill "other pets"? Yeah, I suppose, if you put your goldfish in a shallow bowl on your patio... Property damage? Did you even use half a brain cell before making that statement?
Furthermore - yes, domestic cats killing birds is an issue. One that's successfully inflated and thrown at you from tons of news to try and distract you from the orders of magnitude larger effect that industry has on the bird population.
Beyond that: cats are an issue where they are brought into an ecosystem that hasn't adapted to them, e.g. New Zealand. But in most parts of the world, cats are absolutely compatible with the ecosystem, as their typical prey is detrimental to gardens / agriculture. Why do you think humans domesticated cats in the first place?
Take your undifferentiated hate against cats to a therapist and work on your self hate.
I love cleaning your cats piss and dead animals from my house foundation and yard. Glad it doesn’t affect you much.
The short sighting of this comment Is unbelievable
Elaborate?
Just search "cat predation on wildlife" and get and idea of the numbers. Yeah we are wiping out species but Cats are the second most Dangerous species to the ecosystem
I would also argue that keeping your cat Inside all day is also shit. The wildlife killing problem can be solved by just having a bell around its neck.
If you think it's cruel to keep a cat indoors, don't get one.
I think it's cruel, but I'll still get one. What are you going to do about it?
You have such a parochial view that you don't even know what happen beyond your secluded life. Come to Asia and you'll see and hopefully you'll learn. Very rare to find indoor cats e. g. in South East Asia. They stay inside, but are free to roam outside. - unlike you view which are dead inside.
I get rescues that wouldn't have a life otherwise. Would you rather they be killed?
May as well. Someone should tell that to my current neighbor who lets his cat roam, cause he either doesn't know or care that Coyotes are common around here. In any case, no matter what you FEEL, it's not good enough to justify why you feel entitled to allow your property (a cat is legally property) to go about free to do whatever it wants to do to everyone else's stuff. At the crux of it, it's entitlement. Why do you feel entitled to let your pet roam while saying others like dog owners can't do the same.
Yeah but my cat doesn't leave my garden, and I have zero coyotes living living near me. Not to add I have a neighbour with three cats and they've never damaged anything while the dog my neighbour has takes dumps Im my yard and barks all night. I don't disagree that cats cause alot of harm, especially in countries like Australia and new Zealand. However calling for a worldwide ban to cats going outside I don't think is the solution.
If your cat isn't leaving your garden it's not roaming. I frankly don't care if your cat is in danger, that's your job to care about that. I care about my property and my own pets who are in danger from roaming cats. Like I said before, do what you want, let your cat roam, but don't cry when it never returns. Let your cat roam, but eventually it will be dealt with as the pest it is and you'll have no recourse.
Or, put them in a pen. Or, leash and walk them. It’s no different than having a dog and being respectful of neighbors.
A bell is actually a problem - less for the bell for because the necklace can get caught in branches and the cat can get strangulated.