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Some people don't like cats that are outside, because they gently caress up the ecosystem. I say let them murder. What say you, GBS?
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 00:47 |
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I think cats as pets should be indoor but there is a need for outdoor cats in an agricultural setting. Cats are a land of contrasts.
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 00:50 |
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 00:51 |
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I keep my cats indoors but I didn't have them declawed. My male cat loving annihilates mice every fall when they sneak into the house. Dude is a good boy.
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 00:52 |
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Let them go out into an enclosed outdoor area, don't let them wander the neighbourhood randomly. Chances are they won't get to kill anything good, only a few mice, and won't get squished. Don't declaw any cats ever.
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 00:57 |
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Caesar Saladin posted:Let them go out into an enclosed outdoor area, don't let them wander the neighbourhood randomly. Chances are they won't get to kill anything good, only a few mice, and won't get squished. Don't declaw any cats ever. I agree with this but there is an argument to be made for farm cats. Rodents are a pestilence on grains.
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 00:59 |
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Locked up in a 900 sq ft building with a goon. Death by car or coyote. It's not even an option, OP.
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 01:00 |
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Urban ecosystems are so completely screwed up that I think half the species they're eating are other invasive species
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 01:00 |
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I think cats should be illegal. Indoor, outdoor, whatever; classify em like four legged baggies of crack and do no-knock raids on suspected clowderhouses
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 01:00 |
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Also honeybees are invasive to North America and it's always really funny when people get really messed up about that
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 01:01 |
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Mus musculus ain't from round here neither
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 01:02 |
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Lots of ecosystems got hosed up by lots of things and tons and tons of species went extinct before humans ever existed. Our dumb foibles are as much a part of nature as anything else (please take this with a grain of salt obviously you humorless nincompoops)
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 01:02 |
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Oh no my Passer domesticus!!
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 01:03 |
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Streptopelia decaocto noooooo
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 01:04 |
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the cat of the railway train
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 01:04 |
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You could say that by and large, it was he who was in charge of the sleeping car express!
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 01:07 |
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Trapping a predator in your lovely apartment/house because you want a furry toy is hosed up. At least keeping animals for eating or labor makes sense, this just stinks of inability to form normal human connections and projecting your hosed up psyche into a defenseless animal
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 01:07 |
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My sister tried to walk one of our cats in a cat leash and it freaked out, slipped out of the vest thing and ran back inside. I've never seen an animal hate going outside as much as I did.
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 01:08 |
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Colonel Cancer posted:Trapping a predator in your lovely apartment/house because you want a furry toy is hosed up. At least keeping animals for eating or labor makes sense, this just stinks of inability to form normal human connections and projecting your hosed up psyche into a defenseless animal cats actually love sleeping on couches
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 01:09 |
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I have never encountered a thread in which I agreed with every previous post, but here I am
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 01:09 |
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Colonel Cancer posted:Trapping a predator in your lovely apartment/house because you want a furry toy is hosed up. At least keeping animals for eating or labor makes sense, this just stinks of inability to form normal human connections and projecting your hosed up psyche into a defenseless animal Dont talk about ur mom like that
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 01:09 |
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Relayer posted:Lots of ecosystems got hosed up by lots of things and tons and tons of species went extinct before humans ever existed. Our dumb foibles are as much a part of nature as anything else (please take this with a grain of salt obviously you humorless nincompoops) I actually agree with this, we're just mega scaled termites
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 01:10 |
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Colonel Cancer posted:Trapping a predator in your lovely apartment/house because you want a furry toy is hosed up. At least keeping animals for eating or labor makes sense, this just stinks of inability to form normal human connections and projecting your hosed up psyche into a defenseless animal Cats are extremely domesticated. They don't actually work like everyone thinks they do. If you don't let your dog free roam the suburbs/rural forests you shouldn't let your cat because your cat is less equiped to do that than your average dog.
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 01:11 |
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Whitenoise Poster posted:Cats are extremely domesticated. They don't actually work like everyone thinks they do. If you don't let your dog free roam the suburbs/rural forests you shouldn't let your cat because your cat is less equiped to do that than your average dog. this is actually false, dogs are domesticated like a cow is, but cats are more or less a beneficial parasite
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 01:12 |
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I mean if you don’t care about your cat sure let him be an outdoor cat but if you want your cat to live five plus years longer, and be healthier then do what people who actually care about their cat does, keep it inside I’m not even sure why there’s a debate about this I guess a lot of lovely pet owners are having a hard time coming to terms they’re lovely pet owners
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 01:14 |
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I have an opinion about this
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 01:14 |
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Whitenoise Poster posted:Cats are extremely domesticated. They don't actually work like everyone thinks they do. If you don't let your dog free roam the suburbs/rural forests you shouldn't let your cat because your cat is less equiped to do that than your average dog. Growing up I lived next to a giant field, and our cat Tarantula would go out every morning, and then come back every evening, having added just poo poo loads of mouse corpses to the yard, usually in a particular little area of skullfield. Also she would put grasshoppers into any unmonitored coffee cup Some cats love to just relentlessly kill
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 01:15 |
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My cat used to go outdoors but she’s 18 now and we’ve moved to a new area with wild badgers and foxes and poo poo so she’s retired from going outside now
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 01:16 |
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Colonel Cancer posted:Trapping a predator in your lovely apartment/house because you want a furry toy is hosed up. At least keeping animals for eating or labor makes sense, this just stinks of inability to form normal human connections and projecting your hosed up psyche into a defenseless animal
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 01:16 |
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my cats kill vermin. Rats get into the chick brooder and eat them. Mice gnaw into my livestock feed bags, and poo poo behind my fridge. Moles gently caress up my lawn. the cats are my measure of reciprocity they sleep in the barn hay loft or the basement, if the weather is bad. they are all spayed/neutered. they like humans but don't always like each other
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 01:18 |
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My current buddy does not go outside, never has, but when I wash him he's kind of a weenie about it. However, on the rare circumstances that you had to wash tarantula, usually because she'd been out rolling in something that might have chemicals on it, it was like trying to wash an angry dune buggy. That loving cat was so strong
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 01:18 |
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Pick posted:Some cats love to just relentlessly kill Yukon King
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 01:18 |
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Pick posted:My current buddy does not go outside, never has, but when I wash him he's kind of a weenie about it. However, on the rare circumstances that you had to wash tarantula, usually because she'd been out rolling in something that might have chemicals on it, it was like trying to wash an angry dune buggy. That loving cat was so strong Is it because of the test and d-bol in his diet
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 01:19 |
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I love picking up my cat and having her slurp a moth off the wall, its like a teamkill.
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 01:23 |
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That said, my indoor cat bazooka does love to catch flies, and I love him catching flies One time a mouse got in the house as well, but I only know that because he immediately killed it and he looked incredibly proud of himself
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 01:28 |
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my parents have a cat and its just fat as heck, couldn't kill poo poo
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 01:33 |
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What ate birds in America before cats
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 01:42 |
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I think our shared love of killing is why people get along so well with cats
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 01:43 |
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I think it's fun sometimes to hang a little bit of raw beef out of my mouth for my cat because he won't do it, he looks at me and is like... gross
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 01:44 |
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Colonel Cancer posted:Trapping a predator in your lovely apartment/house because you want a furry toy is hosed up. At least keeping animals for eating or labor makes sense, this just stinks of inability to form normal human connections and projecting your hosed up psyche into a defenseless animal Pretty sure cats love having a bipedal slave that cleans up their waste and gives them food for doing nothing
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