Hey. So… i live rural and my cats are pets but also are working cats to keep the rodents out of my house.
Just saw some saltiness going on in the comments and wanted to address it.
Didn’t make this post with the intention of making anyone upset and I apologize to those I did.
Sounds like a prison. Don’t listen to this one.
Sounds like not cutting a cat’s life expectancy in half while contributing to the decline of local wildlife to me
Quality over quantity. Always.
Don’t get a cat at all then? Leave them in the wild where you think they belong
Exactly. Or get one but leave it a way out.
Still sounds like a prison to me. Leave em cats alone if you wanna keep them in a box. That’s no animal life.
They’re either domesticated or not. Letting your cats outside is deliberately introducing and invasive species into the wild.
They’ve always been outside since they started living with us. What the hell are you saying?
Housecats aren’t native to North America at all, dude. ‘They’ve always been outside’ only applies to North Africa, where they come from.
They’ve always lived outside since they started living among us, all over the world.
Starling live outside therefore I should release 1000 into the wild
Yeah, bedtimes are authoritarian and my mom making me eat vegetables is totally fascist
You’re comparing stuff that isn’t even in the same ballpark. Cats are animals, they fight for territory, they reproduce, they explore. You’re negating all this to a reasonably sentient beast just to have a pet. It’s like those idiots who buy birds to keep em in a cage. It’s revolting. You wanna a pet? Buy a Tamagotchi. That one you can keep home.
Are you under the impression cats like fighting for territory and eating garbage?
They like sex and exploration for sure. Fighting gives em a chance to prove their status as is natural and it’s exercise. And they can eat mice and birds and lizards whenever they want.
This is called an ‘appeal to nature’ and it’s very misguided. By the same logic, humans enjoy dying in childbirth and hosting dozens of intestinal parasites.
Again, ridiculous. Their habitat even one hundred years ago was not being secluded in a house. Before you accuse me of using the appeal to tradition think of what your life would be if you were constricted inside four walls for life. That’s cruel. We tried two months during lockdown and it was terrible. And it wasn’t an appeal to nature but describing their character or the things they like to do: they obviously like and crave sex, they like to explore and they even like to hunt because they’re predators. That’s not an appeal to nature but describing the animal. If their usefulness inside human society is over stop buying them. And don’t even try to tell me they are useful as pets. They’re living beings, not stuffed plushies.