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We should introduce a variant of myxomatosis keyed to Felis catus.
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Jan 13, 2020 23:42
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We let our cats go outside, but they were all originally feral murdermoggies and are now fat castrated toms who are too lazy to chase down any wildlife, so on balance we probably reduced the number of dead mice in the area (and there are fewer fertile male cats running round breeding).
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Jan 13, 2020 23:51
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It is pretty weird when pet owners get all lovey dovey about their pet killing other animals. It should be understood that is simply how nature is, but getting all cutesy about it is some really bad vibes. "Oh wittle Hawwington III, did you kill more of the neighborhood bird population? OwO Oopsie woopsies! You must be hungy wungy!! Let me clean you up and give you some tuna fishy wishy you fuzzy siwwy biwwy UwU"
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Jan 13, 2020 23:54
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They don't actually like it that much, they just post like that to "trigger the libs"
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Jan 13, 2020 23:56
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I'm gonna trap some cats, then don a giant bird costume and terrorize them for a while before releasing them. Maybe this will cause them to reconsider their actions!
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Jan 13, 2020 23:56
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It comes across just as sheltered as freaking out about it, but they've taken it to a contrarian extreme and decided that the infantilization of their pet must be expressed in every facet.
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Jan 13, 2020 23:56
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Freaking out about it isn't sheltered, it's having a very real understanding of cat-astrophic loss of biodiversity and permanent ecosystem damage. like a lower scale version of saying 'freaking out about climate change is sheltered'.
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Jan 13, 2020 23:59
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It's still pretty stupid, you aren't making a difference and nobody cares, but yell yourself blue in the face if you like.
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Jan 14, 2020 00:03
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A mating pair of cardinals were scolding Riley while he was sunning himself on the walk. Very rude. Mrs. Cardinal decides to dive bomb my cat (who was minding his own business, by the way) and became lunch. Seeing his wife being devoured troubled Mr. Cardinal to no end so he began swooping at my cat too. Mind you, Riley is just trying to enjoy his meal. So he gets the dumb bird by the head and starts chewing on it. I intervene. That bird hung out in our front yard the next two seasons sporting drat near a bald head. I suppose I could have intervened sooner and saved the first bird, but cardinals are stuck up assholes.
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Jan 14, 2020 00:04
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Outrail posted:Freaking out about it isn't sheltered, it's having a very real understanding of cat-astrophic loss of biodiversity and permanent ecosystem damage. Yes both of those things are sheltered. Freaking out is never an appropriate reaction. Losing composure is for the youthful and the intoxicated.
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Jan 14, 2020 00:05
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I hate it when people freak out by posting facts and reasonable arguments ugh
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Jan 14, 2020 00:07
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That's not freaking out. Yelling and screaming and running around because your outside cat brought a dead animal in the house is freaking out. You're swinging in a cornfield filled with scarecrows.
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Jan 14, 2020 00:11
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Woodpile posted:A mating pair of cardinals were scolding Riley while he was sunning himself on the walk. Very rude. Mrs. Cardinal decides to dive bomb my cat (who was minding his own business, by the way) and became lunch. Seeing his wife being devoured troubled Mr. Cardinal to no end so he began swooping at my cat too. Mind you, Riley is just trying to enjoy his meal. So he gets the dumb bird by the head and starts chewing on it. I intervene. That bird hung out in our front yard the next two seasons sporting drat near a bald head. I suppose I could have intervened sooner and saved the first bird, but cardinals are stuck up assholes. If the birds were that aggressive, they probably had a nest with eggs or babies nearby.
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Jan 14, 2020 00:27
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You know who really freaked out? Anya the indoor cat. A squirrel dropped down the chimney once and it was loving Christmas for kitty. The squirrel was almost as big as Anya but it was game on. They tore up the downstairs while I stood with the front door open waiting for our guest to leave. Riley hid under the radiator cover. He never got the hang of squirrels.
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Jan 14, 2020 00:27
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Sinteres posted:If the birds were that aggressive, they probably had a nest with eggs or babies nearby. I thought the same. Good thing Riley was too fat for tree climbing. Unless there was a dog involved.
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Jan 14, 2020 00:29
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Dont Touch ME posted:Yes both of those things are sheltered. Freaking out is never an appropriate reaction. Losing composure is for the youthful and the intoxicated.
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Jan 14, 2020 01:02
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Dont Touch ME posted:Yes both of those things are sheltered. Freaking out is never an appropriate reaction. Losing composure is for the youthful and the intoxicated. Freaking out is a reasonable reaction to people pretending nothing is wrong and willfully ignoring terrible things happening when you repeatedly point them out. "The house is on fire." "Oh it's just keeping warm' "Your house is on fire rear end in a top hat!" "Oh calm down. You're freaking out man!"
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Jan 14, 2020 01:17
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Scootches McFlehmenbottom needs a Carolina wren right meow!
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Jan 14, 2020 01:31
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phasmid posted:Question then: since cats are such formidable killers that a single one can genocide out whole areas of birds/small animals, what do we have in place once we move all the cats inside and there's nothing left to hunt the vermin? There's more to the world than your rat-infested house. Please go outside once in a while. Travel a little. You wouldn't consider pigs or rats to be formidable hunters, but you don't see dodos walking around anymore. All you need to do is introduce something not native, and the native populations potentially suffer or even perish. But yes, cats are noted excellent, excellent hunters, who - again - hunt merely for fun. They aren't limited by their hunger, they are only limited by what comes into range. phasmid posted:By "move back" I assume you mean "reclaim large territories that cats used to stalk with murderous aplomb but are now unguarded heaps of human food waste to swell their numbers". You seem to believe the only animal in the world are rats, and that rats eat exclusively trash. I also question which is more valuable, wild rats or wild cats. They both eat trash and carry disease, so I'm not sure the benefit here. Dont Touch ME posted:Yes both of those things are sheltered. Freaking out is never an appropriate reaction. Losing composure is for the youthful and the intoxicated. I just can't wrap my head around how nonsense this is. It's also excessively frustrating. You have a beautiful Catch-22 where the more evidence someone presents you, the more wrong they must be because they are "freaking out." All while you get to be smug because you see the truth that nothing bad has or ever will happen in the world at any scale. Certainly there are no other environmental issues that have been downplayed for over 30 years even as people legitimately started "freaking out." I'm not saying it's anywhere near the same scale, but your reaction is the same nonsense that plagues that discussion as well. There's something about environmental issues that makes people aggressively ambivalent as long as cows and grass are doing fine, and it sucks that we have to share the Earth with them. Shadow0 fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Jan 14, 2020 |
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Jan 14, 2020 01:58
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I... agree with Vikingskull??? Cats should murder.
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Jan 14, 2020 02:03
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1st_Panzer_Div. posted:I... agree with Vikingskull??? Cats should murder. Can't believe someone named after a Nazi tank regiment believes that a "superior" race killing lesser ones for their own amusement is cool and good!!!
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Jan 14, 2020 02:25
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Chomp8645 posted:Can't believe someone named after a Nazi tank regiment believes that a "superior" race killing lesser ones for their own amusement is cool and good!!! Someone fire up the discord server.
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Jan 14, 2020 03:01
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Riley's solution to the bunnies munching my baby maters was final.
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Jan 14, 2020 03:11
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Fleetwood Crack posted:Yes, let's all maintain our composure as our oceans turn to acid and our air into sulfur. Wouldn't want to lose our cool, the most important consideration! Unironically: Yes.
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Jan 14, 2020 03:12
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Woodpile posted:Riley's solution to the bunnies munching my baby maters was final. My cats won't kill rabbits for some reason. They've brought them indoors and then looked at me like "what do we do with this thing now?" A few weeks ago one of their favorite outdoor perches was taken from them by some nesting mockingbirds. The cats did not manage to dislodge them. They were still prowling around the spot, though. Birds halfheartedly divebombing them now and then and them halfheartedly swatting at the birds. Chomp8645 posted:Can't believe someone named after a Nazi tank regiment believes that a "superior" race killing lesser ones for their own amusement is cool and good!!! How many pictures did the internet show you of cats with Hitler staches? You can't say you weren't warned.
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Jan 14, 2020 03:18
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Dog people always wanna kill cats but weirdly its never the other way around. If you go out of your way to say you hate cats I assume instantly you're a piece of poo poo.
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Jan 14, 2020 03:22
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Don't talk poo poo about mustachioed cats. If you're going to Hitler immediately for a comparison and not Charlie Chaplin or some other terribly mustached person, then you're the problem and probably suck nazi dick for meth money. This is Beans. Beans was a stray I took in last April.  He's pretty chill and wants nothing to do with the outside world beyond the patio anymore. He couldn't have been much more than a year old when I took him in, but one Colorado winter was enough, he knows he's spoiled here, he never tries escaping. Beans has a big dog brother named Frank.  Frank is just awesome. Loves everyone but is afraid of pit mixes and not fond of face handsy children. Frank and Beans have recently taken to occasionally napping with each other. Good monsters.
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Jan 14, 2020 03:50
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you know what? it's fine. i thought about it and on balance, gently caress birds, they need to shut the gently caress up. i'd rather see a cat running around than listen to some stupid bird at 5 in the morning. cats are interesting and seem like they are up to things. also, if the cats eat mice and rats, etc on the way that is also fine. let the cats do as they please, i say.
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Chomp8645 posted:Can't believe someone named after a Nazi tank regiment believes that a "superior" race killing lesser ones for their own amusement is cool and good!!! for a second was like dang viking skull is a sick name for a tank regiment
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