Somebody had an adventure
Somebody had an adventure
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Gilly suit. The cat is in stealth mode.
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Relevant.
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What happens when you feed your chia pet after midnight.
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Cordycepspsps.
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Spriggan Cat, protector of catnip.
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“HALP”
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Cats are wild. Mine came home once with about a quarter of his face hanging loose. I wrapped him in a towel to protect myself, cleaned him up with antiseptic and antibiotic cream, put the loose flap back in place and covered it with gauze and tape. Surprisingly he left it alone and it healed up good. If you pull his fur back you can find the scar but it did really well.
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Was your cat sneaking through Pripyat to assassinate someone?
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The All Ghillied Up level in MW still hits hard
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The walk of shame.
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lol
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Druid got stuck in wildshape and needs assistance
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Mother, I am ready to come in. I have seen things. All the things. All. The things.
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I need brushy-brushy, stat!
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Look at this place. Fifty thousand people used to live in this city; now it's a ghost town. I've never seen anything like it.
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Omg, that kitty has been overtaken by a space alien fungus. Run.
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Relevant username
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Broader patrol officer: “ how long were you in Mexico week or a day?” Me: “a weekday.”
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Read all about it in his book, There and Back Again, by Kitters.
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What is that cat covered in?
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Fur
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Aww, a carnivorous plant.
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Is this some new strain of weed? They should call it catnip.
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This cat looks like a Disney princess. She's so dainty! Well, aside from the plant mantle.
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Day of the Kittids.
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Shadow of the Colossus music begins
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Aww, someone's been out extinguishing another bird species.
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The city is more devastating to the bird population than the cats.
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And a few companies do most of global pollution. Doesn't mean someone who litters gets a free pass for their effect on the environment.
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I agree with the message of what you're saying (see my other comments here) but the way you're saying it sounds like animosity towards the cat themself, which isn't really fair. The responsibility lies entirely with the humans.
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Look at the cute little environmental hazard with irresponsible owners!
*Downvoting this comment means you don't care about the environment, or the cat.
We need to worry about Bella and Charlie: the impacts of pet cats on Australian wildlife
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I care about the environment and the cat, but I downvoted you for sounding like a smug, entitled asshole.
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Cat's don't belong outside unsupervised.
*Downvoting this comment means you don't care about the environment, or the cat.
We need to worry about Bella and Charlie: the impacts of pet cats on Australian wildlife
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I don't understand why you're being downoted. Didn't even say cats don't belong outdoors, just that they don't belong outdoors unsupervised which a completely true take. For the record, I absolutely love cats which is why mine don't go outside unsupervised. Two of mine have no interest in leaving the comfort of home (one does enjoy the balcony, on a harness for safety of course) and my third enjoys going out on his harness with me when the weather is nice (he has zero tolerance for snow though).
All three are extremely affectionate, loving, and sociable and by all measures happy and content.
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Basically most people think it's mean to keep them inside and refuse personal responsibility for what that cat gets up to when it kills local wildlife and ends up in the cat walk between my house half eaten with intestines strewn about by coyotes.
Edit: but we're international so I should consider locations where cats aren't an invasive species.
They are where I live, it's illegal to let them out. Not enforced however.
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The vast majority of the problem for wildlife is feral cat populations rather than people letting pets outdoors. Just make sure they are sterilized and vaccinated and it's minimal impact.
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Sources?
I have one for you:
https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.502 - Exploring cat owners' beliefs about cat containment as predictors of owner behavior
Much of this impact may be attributed to feral, unowned cats, but domestic cats contribute substantially to predation on wildlife in urban areas. Predation rates per area by domestic cats in residential areas are 28–52 times higher than predation rates by feral cats in natural environments (Legge et al., 2020). Urban areas support diverse wildlife including threatened species, with 46% of nationally threatened Australian animals (almost 200 species) occurring in urban areas (Ives et al., 2016; Soanes & Lentini, 2019). Pet cats have been documented as having caused local eradication of native species populations (Bamford & Calver, 2015; Legge, Woinarski, et al., 2020), and even a single domestic cat can have major impacts on population decline and reproductive failure in a bird colony (Greenwell, Calver, & Loneragan, 2019).
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Tell me you've never adopted a feral cat without telling me you've never adopted a feral cat.
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I have adopted a feral cat. I've also worked with them in the past (adoption preparedness at a no-kill shelter). Bringing them indoors, getting them used to being on a lead and harness outdoors (or otherwise supervised and contained), is one of the kindest thing you can do for them. For the ones living in colonies outdoors and incapable of being re-domesticated (the ones you wouldn't try to adopt in the first place), there's a reason TNR - trap, neuter, return - is a thing.
Cats started associating with us all those thousands of years ago precisely because, generally speaking, they enjoy the comparatively "easy life" of living with ammenities and low stress. Perhaps we should have never encouraged their domestication in the first place; I'd leave that discussion for another day. But we're here now and we have a responsibility.
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If the feral cat cannot be socialized and kept in a safe environment where it cannot harm local wildlife populations then it should be euthanized. No amount of useless downvotes will change that fact, or my unwavering position on environmental protection and my pure disdain for people that think it's okay for cat's to roam free outside.
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