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Cats 5959 Responses
Last post: 9 months, 2 weeks ago | Thread started: Aug 9, 12, 5:01 a.m.
- detritus
"You don't *honestly* and seriously believe that cats decimate the local wildlife, do you? "
erm... well, no - I don't 'believe'* that at all, it's just what I think. I've been banging on about for years about this and so it's is somewhat behind my intent in posting the above here.
I've had cats around me my entire life and watched the little fuckers maul anything they can - I've never found it much of a stretch of the imagination to extrapolate that to a national impact.
*shrugs*
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* 'belief' appears to be a polar construct outwith the credible ambitions of scientifically-literate, correct-thinking men - at least if the recent Mars Science Laboratory thread is to go by.
- Dog-earAug 9, 12, 7:34 a.m. – Permalink
- detritus
if you wwere Britain's only cat owner, Set, I doubt I'd care much.
Given that there are 10m+ cats in Britain and given that their existence is entirely artifically supported, it strikes me as very obvious they're going to have an unhealthy effect on the otherwise natural wildlife.
- Dog-earAug 9, 12, 7:36 a.m. – Permalink
- monospaced
Damn, human lives are "artificially supported" if you use your logic too, and we have an unhealthy effect on the otherwise natural wildlife.
- Dog-earAug 9, 12, 7:40 a.m. – Permalink
- set
It's a fair point. I guess I just feel that there are so many other more pressing issues when it comes to humans and the decline of natural wildlife that to talk about domestic cats seems a little futile and meagre.
It's something i'd like to have a look into when not at work as I don't have any idea about figures, but we've had millions of cats in the UK for at least a hundred years... (?)
Are there serious problems with the decline of mice? Birds?
- Dog-earAug 9, 12, 7:44 a.m. – Permalink
- maikel
C'mon folks.
Cats have been abundant pretty much everywhere for quite a while.
Having a pet cat means that are probably fed and eventually sterilised... that surely helps to REDUCE the amount of cats with nothing more interesting to do than finding some food (as in killing a bird or something) or reproducing...- Dog-earAug 9, 12, 7:47 a.m. – Permalink
- monospaced
Growing up we didn't even feed our cats. They spent a large majority of their lives outdoors, catching whatever they needed to survive. They'd leave us treats sometimes like hearts and livers. I can't imagine they impact the environment in some kind of harmful way, or that they're the reason behind a global decline in bird species though.
- Dog-earAug 9, 12, 7:52 a.m. – Permalink
- monospaced
I'm voting for whomever is for more strict cat control regulations. The killing has got to stop somewhere. Can you believe they let these "animals" on planes?
- Dog-earAug 9, 12, 7:57 a.m. – Permalink
- set
When I lived at home with my Mum we had a cat called Ollie. I used to get weed off a bloke who lived opposite who had two (illegal) pittbull dogs.
I got a call from a friend, who miraculously happened to be walking by my house as it happened, saying that my cat had just been killed by a dog. He saw it rip it apart.
I came rushing home to find my lovely little Ollie ripped to pieces in our front drive.
- Dog-earAug 9, 12, 8:02 a.m. – Permalink
- albums
This is old "news"
http://www.environmentalgraffiti…
http://veggierevolution.blogspot…
http://www.motherjones.com/envir…- Dog-earAug 9, 12, 8:33 a.m. – Permalink
