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    Outdoor cat: “today I killed 300 birds and permanently altered the local ecosystem”

    Indoor cat: “hehe I shit in a box”

    • CashewNut 🏴󠁢󠁥󠁧󠁿@lemmy.world
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      And so begins a new battle in the eternal war between Americans with indoor cats and others with outdoor cats.

      It’s pretty difficult to actually find an indoor cat in the UK. In the US it’s common.

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      Not how cats work. Nice job getting butthurt about a funny comic on the internet, though.

      And just so you can be better informed in the future. Feral cats are the ones affecting the ecosystem. Outdoor house cats have a negligible influence on wildlife. Let your cat go outside sometimes.

      And, just a guess, you should probably go outside sometimes too.

      "The magnitude of mortality they cause in mainland areas remains speculative, with large-scale estimates based on non-systematic analyses and little consideration of scientific data. Here we conduct a systematic review and quantitatively estimate mortality caused by cats in the United States. We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.3–4.0 billion birds and 6.3–22.3 billion mammals annually. Un-owned cats, as opposed to owned pets, cause the majority of this mortality."

      Downvoting doesn’t make you right and it doesn’t make your cats less miserable.

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          "The magnitude of mortality they cause in mainland areas remains speculative, with large-scale estimates based on non-systematic analyses and little consideration of scientific data. Here we conduct a systematic review and quantitatively estimate mortality caused by cats in the United States. We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.3–4.0 billion birds and 6.3–22.3 billion mammals annually. Un-owned cats, as opposed to owned pets, cause the majority of this mortality."

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        Thats exactly how cats work.

        The comic is funny and cute, but dont get it twisted. The science is pretty firm on the destructive effects of invasive domestic cats.

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          "The magnitude of mortality they cause in mainland areas remains speculative, with large-scale estimates based on non-systematic analyses and little consideration of scientific data. Here we conduct a systematic review and quantitatively estimate mortality caused by cats in the United States. We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.3–4.0 billion birds and 6.3–22.3 billion mammals annually. Un-owned cats, as opposed to owned pets, cause the majority of this mortality."

          Maybe don’t believe every sensationalized social media article that’s really just a barely disguised cat litter ad.

          “The science is pretty firm” lmao

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      Our 3 cats kill maybe a total of 5 birds and 10 mice a year. They can’t reproduce and prefer to stay inside for most of the year. They’re not a problem, as many new studies have found out. At least in northern Germany. It might be a bigger problem elsewhere though. Just trying to point out that your criticism may only apply to certain areas.