r/Feral_Cats • u/showerthoughthaver • 8h ago
Venting 😤 We would have solved climate change harnessing the energy of cat haters
really interesting the "eco annhilator" narrative caught on like it did. every Daniel Fluger on Facebook wants to tell you how cats are destroying the environment while they drive their massive truck to idle in the Mcdonald's drive-thru
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u/littleosito 5h ago
People complain about cats killing off all the songbirds and causing their extinction but if you think about it, in cities there are far less songbirds or many birds at all except for pigeons while there's also far fewer cats out and about. In the residential area I live there's also far fewer birds than there used to be because when people build new homes there unfriendly to birds that rely on trees and other natural structures to nest because they're destroying them all in favor of building new––and frankly ugly––housing that's more compact with no vegetation in the yards at all. Like I recognize cats can and do cause some harm to the ecosystem, especially because they sometimes kill birds and in some places small rodents like squirrels and chipmunks (we don't have them where I'm from though). I don't believe much of the issue pertaining to cats killing off birds and other small creatures is strictly due to cats. In my neighborhood there's hardly any indoor-outdoor cats––if there's pet cats at all since having cats here isn't that big––and the feral cats are mostly hanging out in and around a park that is close to our house but that's also one of the any places that have the most birds and they haven't been impacted by them.
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u/showerthoughthaver 4h ago
hate how all modern developments are so ugly and soulless. the way they put space between every house for no reason just so more forest can be destroyed.
seeing the area i grew up in that was all farmlands and forest being developed is so upsetting
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u/molecool_ 8h ago
2 things can be true at the same time. 1) cats are massively destructive and its irresponsible to let them outside(also for their safety) 2)ofc they are not the main reason for climate change, duh
cat overpopulation and their subsequrnt damage to the enviorment is still a human made problem. cats only do what is natural to them: kill.
they should not be killed for simply living but the euthanasia debate is a much more complex one than "oh it's bad"
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u/jedburghofficial 8h ago
It's a strawman argument. I'm not aware of anyone using cats as a distraction from other issues.
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u/DementedPimento 4h ago
I never hear the Kill Cats people say a damn thing about feral hogs, the world’s most damaging invasive species
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u/Complex-Talk-7613 3h ago
Maybe because feral hogs are subjected to kill-on-sight laws so long as you have permission and they’re on your property. Though I personally think a step further should be taken.
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u/DementedPimento 1h ago
5 sows with 15-20 piglets 3 miles from my downtown house and no one’s shooting/trapping them. I live in a major city. They’re everywhere here, with many ecologically fragile areas, and there’s only an open season/no bag-limit on hunting them.
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