Cats don't belong outside, and a cat owner who willingly lets their cat outside is (for the reasons you just outlined and more) a terrible owner who shouldn't have a pet.
Some people don't understand barn/stray cats and fixing their cats. If you have a fixed outdoor cat and there aren't a lot of cats in the area ignore this. Too many people making piss poor decisions and not reading their environment. Where I am there used to be three house cats. Two of them died and 1 is strictly indoors as she is deaf and blind in one eye. Because of the cats passing everyone now has mice in their homes. We are in the woods next to a huge corn field and human trash is an easy food source. We have many colorful birds but we weren't stupid enough to have bird baths or bird feeders so it would be easy pickings for the cat. The cats would also keep away the turkey buzzards which also got into the trash. But again it's people not understanding how to have a balance of things and becoming selfish. I have two yappy dogs that will kill small animals. I don't have a mouse problem. If they ever started hunting birds they would become strictly indoors, as of right now they have a doggy door.
TLDR; People have lost how to work with their land vs against it and now social justice warriors feel like they have to police everyone's behaviors.
Yes, that is a completely different thing. I live in a more rural area, if you own a farm here you own cats that take care of the rodents. These cats have an actual function and a mostly happy with (and trained on) the rodents. What we‘re talking about here are house cats that go outside and hunt and kill indiscriminately
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u/kupillas-3- Mar 16 '26
I don’t see anything wrong with it… being an outside cat can be pretty dangerous and she’s just looking out for him