Weren't you saying just before how you've been wasted LOADS of times and nobody tried to rape you? By your logic, you must be even uglier than this girl.
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Yeah, you can stop cats from hunting. It might be a natural instinct, but so is fucking, and you have no problem stopping them doing that.
Yes, the onus is on you as a pet owner. You are responsible for the actions of your pets. "Killing a few shrews" sounds innocuous, but if that shrew is highly endangered it's anything but.
Hey guess what? Imagine how much more responsible you'd be if you rescued some cats and then kept them indoors or with limited/supervised access to the outdoors.
I love this comment.
What's my excuse? I don't like making myself throw up.
Nothing, since I don't keep one as a pet and am not responsible for it.
If they're too old to be a risk to wildlife, no problem — although that means they maybe in danger themselves. Too slow to evade cars if they wander onto the road, could get attacked by or catch a disease from a visiting cat. I think in your case I'd limit the outside time to when I could be there to supervise, but…
I thought my cat was an inept hunter too until the day she killed one of these:
Want me to make a list of cute animals that are also preyed upon by cats?
Sorry to break it to you, but if your cat has eyes and legs, your cat kills wildlife. She's a fucking cat. That's what she does. If you're there supervising her sitting in the sun in your garden, cool, you can stop her from killing stuff. If not, then you're responsible for the stuff that she kills. Like I said, not…
I'm not making blanket statements — circumstances should always dictate the course of action — apart from "Cats will hunt wildlife". That's going to be true no matter where you live. Cat owners need to recognize that little Smuffy is a cold-blooded killer who doesn't care whether the corpse he's batting around is a…
That was a pretty long list of reptiles and small mammals. Are you sure that all of them are safely out of reach of your cat?
Right. Because it's important to wait until a species is nearly wiped out to do anything about preventing it from becoming extinct.
Well, you're wrong. Palmer's chipmunk is endangered, partially because of domestic cat predation.
If you own a pet, you are responsible for its actions. If you don't want it to kill or injure animals, you have the responsibility to prevent it doing so. If a dog attacks and injures a child, do we hold the owner responsible, legally and morally?
It's not just mice, it's any small mammals, birds, frogs, lizards.
So it's only important to not kill endangered wildlife? Killing for fun is OK? How about just injuring something, and then playing with it for a while? Because that's what cats do.
Yes, cats living on a farm aren't going to be as at risk of injury or death from cars or psychos as urban cats, nor will they annoy the neighbors, but I wonder how you can be so sure that they don't kill birds or wildlife.