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Failing to declaw an outdoor cat lets the cat kill more birds; cats are an invasive species that kill billions of birds per year.
by challenger22 7y ago
Failing to declaw an outdoor cat lets the cat kill more birds; cats are an invasive species that kill billions of birds per year.
- xkcd-sucks 7y agoThe ecological impact of a few cats is tiny compared to that of a human. If you really care about the environment, don't have children and maybe kill yourself too
- challenger22 7y agoI follow your example. Thanks for the wisdom.
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- ryan_j_naughton 7y ago>The ecological impact of a few cats is tiny compared to that of a human. If you really care about the environment, don't have children and maybe kill yourself too. On avian populations, that simply isn't true. "According to their calculations, outdoor cats killed somewhere in the ballpark of 2.4 billion birds and 12.3 billion small mammals in the U.S. per year—far exceeding any other human-influenced cause of avian death, such as pesticides or collisions with window."[1] I agree with your concerns regarding human overpopulation though. My wife and I aren't having kids. [1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/moral-cost-of-cats-180960505/#lCh7DDA9Do2HRmSz.99 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/moral-cost-of-...
- asdff 7y agoIt also prevents your cat from defending itself from other cats, dogs, raccoons, possum, fox, insert local critter here that will fuck up your cat, in the event your cat gets loose. You shouldn't let your cat be unsupervised killing birds, that's just irresponsible as you say.