Timeline for Should I let my cat go outside?
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| Sep 20, 2020 at 12:29 | comment | added | lila | @WillBain No worries, I think that "seemingly" does 100% enough job to signalize it's not to be literally taken. | |
| Sep 19, 2020 at 15:44 | comment | added | Will Bain | @Meg -- Yes, it's a misnomer all right. I hesitated to put that in there, but then settled on qualifying it with "seemingly". I guess I should have left it out. | |
| Sep 18, 2020 at 18:56 | comment | added | Meg | I think "killing for sport" is a misnomer, cats kill excessively because they are driven by instinct to take prey any time they can, even if they aren't hungry at the moment enough to eat it. It is definitely not "just for fun". All the more reason to keep cats inside, as their excessive hunting is a biological imperative, not a character flaw, and can not be trained out or otherwise effectively discouraged. | |
| Sep 18, 2020 at 15:46 | comment | added | J... | This is the only correct answer. Cats are an ecological menace and belong indoors anywhere where they are an invasive species (ie: almost everywhere). They are one of the most significant stressors of endangered small mammal and bird wildlife in the world. I love cats, but they cannot be left outdoors alone. We have one neighbour on our entire street that has one cat that they leave outdoors and that single cat rakes in a shocking number of kills up and down the street. I'm always finding shredded native birds and dead rabbits. Don't be that person. | |
| Sep 18, 2020 at 8:41 | comment | added | dandavis | I always keep my cats inside, but I stayed for a weekend with a suburban family that didn't. In the three days I was there, I personally saw their cute little calico, "Cali", kill 2 small bunnies, 2 birds (a robin and a chickadee-looking one), 1 mouse, and countless insects, including cool ones like butterflies and fireflies. | |
| Sep 17, 2020 at 15:28 | comment | added | Josh | Thank you so much for mentioning this. As a cat lover and a wild bird lover, this needs to be said. I have difficulty reconciling the two because of the unnecessary devastation house cats bring to the wild bird population. Unnecessary because they do not eat the birds they kill, as you said, it's just for sport. :'( | |
| Sep 16, 2020 at 19:35 | comment | added | lila | Hi, welcome to Pets ^.^ | |
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| Sep 16, 2020 at 16:50 | history | answered | Will Bain | CC BY-SA 4.0 |