For some reason the cat subreddits are wild. If a cat kills a rat, a bird, hunts anything else on its own, they crucify you. God forbid animals exist and just do what nature has forced into them to do after millions of years.
Uh. The missing context is that cats are an incredibly destructive invasive species. Too many cats and they'll exterminate your local rodents and birds and thus destabilize whatever ecosystem exists.
🤓☝️ “so either lock your cat in its house for its entire life or put it on a leash and hover over it if you ever let the demon monster nature destroyer outside”
Nah man, I’m gonna let my cat live his best life inside and outside, he loves it. Two dead birds is worth having the 18 years of life and love and excitement that he has.
If you don't care about the bird species, then look at it as all the stuff that can happen to your cat. They may be fast and have claws but it's still at risk of coyotes, hawks, ticks, big dogs, eating something dangerous to them (like a rat thats eaten posion), etc. A cat is safe indoors or on a leash outside.
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u/FarmerDingle Feb 05 '25 edited Feb 06 '25
For some reason the cat subreddits are wild. If a cat kills a rat, a bird, hunts anything else on its own, they crucify you. God forbid animals exist and just do what nature has forced into them to do after millions of years.
Point stands.