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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Outdoor cat: "today I killed 300 birds and permanently altered the local ecosystem"

Indoor cat: "hehe I shit in a box"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Not how cats work. Nice job getting butthurt about a funny comic on the internet, though.

And just so you can be better informed in the future. Feral cats are the ones affecting the ecosystem. Outdoor house cats have a negligible influence on wildlife. Let your cat go outside sometimes.

And, just a guess, you should probably go outside sometimes too.

"The magnitude of mortality they cause in mainland areas remains speculative, with large-scale estimates based on non-systematic analyses and little consideration of scientific data. Here we conduct a systematic review and quantitatively estimate mortality caused by cats in the United States. We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.3–4.0 billion birds and 6.3–22.3 billion mammals annually. Un-owned cats, as opposed to owned pets, cause the majority of this mortality."

Downvoting doesn't make you right and it doesn't make your cats less miserable.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thats exactly how cats work.

The comic is funny and cute, but dont get it twisted. The science is pretty firm on the destructive effects of invasive domestic cats.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"The magnitude of mortality they cause in mainland areas remains speculative, with large-scale estimates based on non-systematic analyses and little consideration of scientific data. Here we conduct a systematic review and quantitatively estimate mortality caused by cats in the United States. We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.3–4.0 billion birds and 6.3–22.3 billion mammals annually. Un-owned cats, as opposed to owned pets, cause the majority of this mortality."

Maybe don't believe every sensationalized social media article that's really just a barely disguised cat litter ad.

"The science is pretty firm" lmao

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"The magnitude of mortality they cause in mainland areas remains speculative, with large-scale estimates based on non-systematic analyses and little consideration of scientific data. Here we conduct a systematic review and quantitatively estimate mortality caused by cats in the United States. We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.3–4.0 billion birds and 6.3–22.3 billion mammals annually. Un-owned cats, as opposed to owned pets, cause the majority of this mortality."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And so begins a new battle in the eternal war between Americans with indoor cats and others with outdoor cats.

It's pretty difficult to actually find an indoor cat in the UK. In the US it's common.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Of course it is difficult to find an indoor cat, you only see them inside a house.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I guess we in Finland are Americand now lol

We're more worried about the cats wellbeing though than the birds.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With a name like Kusimulkku I should have guessed. I wouldn't call you American but you are one of the weirdest countries in Europe. A language designed to confuse with an obsessive dedication to double-consanants. I assume your cats are as unsociable as your people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's with this random driveby on Finland and their language?? We're just talking about cats

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

It's called banter. Light-hearted joshing. I love the Swedish Mongols; very amusing people.