• three@lemmy.zip
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        8 hours ago

        Assuming this is an outdoor cat (collar and bell), they’ll get their fill of violence from decimating local bird populations 🙂

        • toxoplasma0gondii@feddit.org
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          7 hours ago

          There are studies indicating that 1. The Urbanisation of previous bird habitat has a much bigger impact on certain populations and 2. Most of the birds killed are common and adapted to urban life. Which leads to the conclusion that cats are not the one and only big problem for sining bird population, which is mostly spoken of in this context.

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            6 hours ago

            Regardless of if they’re a major factor or not, or what species they’re targeting, it’s still a shitty thing to do to allow your pet to fuck with the local wildlife.

            If you wouldn’t go out killing birds, don’t let your cat do it either.

        • FiveMacs@lemmy.ca
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          5 hours ago

          wth is an outdoor catm…that’s called animal abuse, or a stray…which most likely happened because it was an abuse cat by people allowing their pets to roam outside freely.