They are a problem everywhere. Their natural habitat is one that does not exist anymore. Wanting it to be true doesn’t change the fact. It’d be like saying “dogs should just go back to their natural habitats” while speaking of pugs or mastiffs or whatever. We’ve spent 12.000 years breeding them and domesticating them, changing their physiology as we’ve likewise changed the ecology and biology of the world.
If you wanna be weird and pedantic go ahead, but in that case you can only have outdoor cats in this region of the arabian peninsula. Everywhere else they’re non-native.
if they lived everywhere with humans for at least 2000+ years, from imperial China to imperial Rome and everything in between, i think you can say cats are ok
but ok, if you want to be pedantic, sure, they are not real cats if they don’t come from the kat region somewhere in palestine 🙄
They very obviously haven’t lived everywhere withoutnissue. There are countless examples of the introduction of cats leading to mass extinction of local fauna. It’s also as if you’re being willfully obtuse about what I am writing, and it is a bit frustrating. Why do you choose to only engage with parts of the text? We have changed the biosphere over the last 2000 years (and especially the last 200) to such an extent that cats no longer have a natural habitat. Do you not think that change extends elsewhere? The massive urban environments that dominate the globe now, as well as the massive amount of land dedicated to farmland means there are precious few areas wherein fauna can exist and procreate. Since these areas now are so limited, it is incredibly damaging when cats are in them to predate on the animals.
You can twist yourself into a pretzel by trying to find a myriad of justifications that do not actually confront the facts of the matter, or you could look at the facts of the matter and accept that outdoor cats are very damaging to the ecology.
You were the one arguing that they could be outside, as long as it was in the region where they came from. We’re just following your logic.
You’re stating a unfactual fantasy.
Cats are domesticated pets that have lived with humans for thousands of years. At this point they aren’t really native to any specific region anymore, and most certainly not in the population numbers they have now. They are natural predators with prey that has few defenses against them. Pretending there’s anything “natural” about cats is silly.
Anyone who harbors and abets a KKKat while allowing it outside to engage in what can, by any reasonable standard, only be described as a campaign of stochastic terrorism against the indigenous bird population is a social chauvanist and any org that refuses to purge them is revisionist.
But yeah jokes aside there are reasonable concerns but it got blown out of proportion so now we like to joke about it as an example of splitting over trivial disagreements. Strays have a bigger impact than domestic ones anyway so spaying/neutering is what’s really important
ofc cat should be allowed outside what the hell 🤔
There are ecological problems. Killing birds and things. They’ve caused several species-extinctions in Australia iirc, where they are not native.
ok, they are problem in Australia I give you that. but where they existed and lived with humans since forever?
it’s not like we have to adopt stupid Anglo internet paranoias just bcs some some aussie fucked up. fuck anglos anyway
You mean neolithic Egypt? Those times are long gone. Cats have no natural habitat anymore.
so besides Africa, Eurasia, and America, yes, they are a problem in antartica and oceania. got it
They are a problem everywhere. Their natural habitat is one that does not exist anymore. Wanting it to be true doesn’t change the fact. It’d be like saying “dogs should just go back to their natural habitats” while speaking of pugs or mastiffs or whatever. We’ve spent 12.000 years breeding them and domesticating them, changing their physiology as we’ve likewise changed the ecology and biology of the world.
If you wanna be weird and pedantic go ahead, but in that case you can only have outdoor cats in this region of the arabian peninsula. Everywhere else they’re non-native.
if they lived everywhere with humans for at least 2000+ years, from imperial China to imperial Rome and everything in between, i think you can say cats are ok
but ok, if you want to be pedantic, sure, they are not real cats if they don’t come from the kat region somewhere in palestine 🙄
They very obviously haven’t lived everywhere withoutnissue. There are countless examples of the introduction of cats leading to mass extinction of local fauna. It’s also as if you’re being willfully obtuse about what I am writing, and it is a bit frustrating. Why do you choose to only engage with parts of the text? We have changed the biosphere over the last 2000 years (and especially the last 200) to such an extent that cats no longer have a natural habitat. Do you not think that change extends elsewhere? The massive urban environments that dominate the globe now, as well as the massive amount of land dedicated to farmland means there are precious few areas wherein fauna can exist and procreate. Since these areas now are so limited, it is incredibly damaging when cats are in them to predate on the animals.
You can twist yourself into a pretzel by trying to find a myriad of justifications that do not actually confront the facts of the matter, or you could look at the facts of the matter and accept that outdoor cats are very damaging to the ecology.
You were the one arguing that they could be outside, as long as it was in the region where they came from. We’re just following your logic.
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You can love cats being outside or you can love wildlife but you can’t love both.
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cat outside like it has always been: voice of reason
Hey why are we in a mass extinction event where’d that come from.
Cats?
You’re stating a unfactual fantasy.
Cats are domesticated pets that have lived with humans for thousands of years. At this point they aren’t really native to any specific region anymore, and most certainly not in the population numbers they have now. They are natural predators with prey that has few defenses against them. Pretending there’s anything “natural” about cats is silly.
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“I’ve never heard of it before, therefore it cannot be true” is a wild statement to just throw out there.
Also fuck off with your bullshit ableism.
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How do you acquire new information then?
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Anyone who harbors and abets a KKKat while allowing it outside to engage in what can, by any reasonable standard, only be described as a campaign of stochastic terrorism against the indigenous bird population is a social chauvanist and any org that refuses to purge them is revisionist.
Read Lenin.
cats are the hungry purrrletariat
I take it back, instead of Lenin, read Settlers: the Mythology of the Feline Proletariat
ahaha reveals the author’s bias against working-class unity and plays into the hands of the ruling class
edit: let’s also remember that 👏 all 👏 dogs 👏 are 👏 fascists 👏
Posting the man responsible for the massacre of countless innocent sparrows while defending outdoor cats is telling.
Yet even then, as you can see, all of those cats are clearly indoor cats. Outdoor cats were too extreme even for Mao.
he was feral enough against landlords, and what he really cared about was freedom
But yeah jokes aside there are reasonable concerns but it got blown out of proportion so now we like to joke about it as an example of splitting over trivial disagreements. Strays have a bigger impact than domestic ones anyway so spaying/neutering is what’s really important
Kkkat has got me rolling
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On a harness or in an enclosed space that theybwon’t escape, sure.
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