• Rachelhazideas@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Cats are an invasive species and kill over 15 billion birds and small mammals per year. There’s nothing ‘natural’ about that.

    Your cats freedom means the ecological destruction of your surroundings. Choose wisely.

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      3 hours ago

      This is why I have a harness and one of those extending leashes. I pretty much let him go where he wants on hour-long walks; the leash is just to keep him from genociding the local fauna or running into traffic. It also reduces his urge to sprint outside the moment a door opens.

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          2 hours ago

          Then I guess your walks aren’t long and satisfying enough for your cat.

          You can tell when it’s time to end the walk. They start laying down and don’t protest when you pick them up to carry them back to the car.

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      3 hours ago

      ‘Invasive’

      It’s been five hundred years. Pretty sure this is a pointless distinction by now