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[–] -5 points 11 months ago (9 children)

Far better than leaving poisoned baits for random animals to eat that are not the intended target, or traps that cause extreme suffering in the same manner as bear traps, and doesn't require guns which are very hard to access now

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  • [+] [S] 17 points 11 months ago (8 children)
  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago*

    look up Australian Cat Plague, if you want to see what happens when you truly let cats just go ham outside "because it's natural" or whatever reason most people use. they're little apex predators that kill anything they can get their claws on, if there's no native predators to control them they will dominate everything smaller than them

    you cannot save them all, no amount of adoption centers would be able to receive the inflow of cats from a proper plague of them. there entire pet industries designed towards selling these animals to people who probably can't even take care of actual human kids let alone an animal

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  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago* (6 children)

    Maybe the commenter can tell us

    Feral cats kill an extreme amount of native wildlife here and are essentially the sole cause of extinction for many animals. You cannot rehome feral cats as pets and there's basically nowhere to take them.

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  • [+] [S] 10 points 11 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] -5 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    There's a bit of a difference between domesticated street cats and feral wild cats...

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  • [+] [S] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)