They seem to cope.I prefer to observe rather than smother.
Some scientists say cats are an 'invasive alien species'
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I find this, like many modern challenges, a relative question. That sum would be considerably less impactful, or, at least, emotionally affective, had we not destroyed enough habitat to make the feline bird harvest seem relevant, or helped boost the heat to the point that birds are falling out of the sky. It's like in Seattle, where they made a decision to stop extending natural gas infrastructure to certain new housing, and I'm sorry, but compared to energy production and conservation questions, as well as issues of mobility, transit, and traffic, I find it a ridiculous trade: Glasstop ranges and even worse water heaters, but we need our freakin' four hundred fifty-four horsepower for single-occupancy commuting. Not running gas lines to new single-family development, as the idea goes, is whatever it is, but it's a petty measure blithely intended to forestall actually useful reductions in carbon-heavy energy distribution.
That is to say, I would be far less worried about the feline birdkill except we humans are not going to stop destroying the birds, ourselves. It's like when old men wax nostalgic about murmurations so rarely seen these days, no, I'm not blaming cats.
You could make a similar argument about forcing them to eat cat food, shipping them via air and/or neutering them.
If the treatment of animals required to keep them as pets is cruelty, then the answer there is to prohibit pets. So I would be hesitant to make that argument.
Well, I don't see too much CO2 in the air, either, or too much plastic in the ocean. But they are still problems even if they're not immediately visible.
Rabbits in Australia? Definitely. They have decimated the environment there.
Raccoons if here in the US we bred them by the tens of millions, fed them then kept them outside? Also definitely.
Raccoons if they were imported into Japan? Also definitely. They've done a huge amount of damage.
Raccoons if we left them alone? Then no problem. They have a niche here, and availability of food keeps them in check in their natural state.
Whenever we mess with the environment without knowing what we are doing we leave disaster in our wake.
Seattle
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Agree. Let's just keep cats as pets.
I think it is more of an issue with the feral cat population.
Last year when the feral mother was killed by a fisher I adopted 3 feral kittens with the help of my senior (16) indoor cat. Had them neutered. 2 listen to the senior and stay indoors. The tiniest one (only 6 pounds) got out and has refused to come back in the house she has reverted to feral.
Last year when the feral mother was killed by a fisher I adopted 3 feral kittens with the help of my senior (16) indoor cat. Had them neutered. 2 listen to the senior and stay indoors. The tiniest one (only 6 pounds) got out and has refused to come back in the house she has reverted to feral.
If he can be psychotic, I suppose he can psychoanalyze too.
I like the sound of it."A dead psychoanalyst bounce "
Beaconator
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It might pass the snell test but that’s only because no cats are there.
More than cats, I want to know what's up with people.
Not long ago, our cat got out and hid under a neighbor's back deck. It took two and a half days to get him out, and that was only after the neighbor remembered that he had left a board loose in order to access under the deck. Once we lifted that up, it took about five minutes to get the cat out.
Afterward, the neighbor buttoned down his deck. The loose board is now fastened in place, and additional skirting has been cheaply tacked on, but an ingress point for animals was left open. The only difference, now, is that you simply can't see where the animal is at, and can do absolutely nothing to help it get out.
What we now have to rely on is that a cat will do something counterintuitive, i.e., randomly decide to go thirty feet south in order to move two feet north.
Apparently, the humans thought that leaving a gap for wildlife to get in while closing off every means of extracting it was some sort of solution.
Not long ago, our cat got out and hid under a neighbor's back deck. It took two and a half days to get him out, and that was only after the neighbor remembered that he had left a board loose in order to access under the deck. Once we lifted that up, it took about five minutes to get the cat out.
Afterward, the neighbor buttoned down his deck. The loose board is now fastened in place, and additional skirting has been cheaply tacked on, but an ingress point for animals was left open. The only difference, now, is that you simply can't see where the animal is at, and can do absolutely nothing to help it get out.
What we now have to rely on is that a cat will do something counterintuitive, i.e., randomly decide to go thirty feet south in order to move two feet north.
Apparently, the humans thought that leaving a gap for wildlife to get in while closing off every means of extracting it was some sort of solution.
This time around, we just pulled the fence.
Toward buttoning down the deck, even when it's not our cat, pulling the fence is the solution for whatever wildlife doesn't feel like tracking thirty feet back out.
That's actually kind of what he was doing. Normally, he doesn't bolt like that, but decided to have an overdue conversation with the neighbor cat hanging out behind the flowers under the sycamore, and when he finally realized he was under open sky, he was halfway around, and instinctively hewed to the building structure while seeking the nearest cover. The difference between thirty feet south or two feet north is that the two feet was the path to the back door.
That is odd human behavior. But, thankfully your cat was found and freed.
The thought of my sweet, docile cat getting out into the wild, oof - I’m not sure he’d know how to defend himself. “They” say domesticated animals will remember what to do when in danger - that it’s instinctive. I’m sure there’s truth in that but, I don’t know.
Couple of days before due to come home from Bali I was taking breakfast out to the outdoor covered area of the hotel room and I noticed girlfriend putting what I thought was a mouse in a box
Learnt early not to ask girlfriend questions about odd doings
Turns out was a squirrel and well on the way to recovery
As she has 2 dogs now I am hoping she soon sets it free or it escapes
Learnt early not to ask girlfriend questions about odd doings
Turns out was a squirrel and well on the way to recovery
As she has 2 dogs now I am hoping she soon sets it free or it escapes
Sorry no idea
EDIT
Intrigued I asked girlfriend
Are you sure the little thing you took home from Bali Kuta Resort is a squirrel?
Her reply
yes and I kept him for some time, and then there was my friend who liked my squirrel, then I gave my squirrel to her pet girl
For completeness I Googled "Are there squirrels in Bali" and got
https://coconuts.co/bali/news/squirrel-smuggler-australian-tourist-caught-brisbane-airport-live-bali-squirrels/#:~:text=A pair of live squirrels,home from Bali, reports Kompas.
A pair of live squirrels from Bali was seized by Australian Biosecurity and Border Force (ABF) at Brisbane Airport earlier this month.
The animals were allegedly sneaked in by a holiday-maker who had just returned home from Bali, reports Kompas
Bit more EDIT
https://jacquelineiphotos.wordpress.com/2017/01/20/the-bali-squirrel/
These gorgeous little fellows are just about everywhere in Bali. They are very curios and can be quite friendly, even touchable at times. They are not known to carry the Rabies virus (which is good to know) They are very quick and can be hard to get a good photo of, if you don’t have the patients.
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