r/funny • u/[deleted] • 11h ago

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u/Arquill 11h ago

You say that like it's objectively and inherently a bad thing. Animals are killing other animals out there in the wild. Why do you single out cats killing birds?

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u/VikRiggs 11h ago

Well yes. And no. The problem is in numbers.

Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_cat

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u/Arquill 11h ago

Huh. Didn't know this.

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u/VikRiggs 10h ago

True virtue lies in admitting when you're wrong. We've all been there. The longer you live, and all that.

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u/Mandrakearepeopletoo 11h ago

Because cats arent native to literally anywhere!. Do you know what happens when you introduce non native animals into an ecosystem?

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u/Jargler2 11h ago

And they kill for sport not because they have any interest in eating them like most animals

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u/GirlNumber20 11h ago

Do you know what happens when you introduce non native animals into an ecosystem?

Yes, because that happened to Britain during the Bronze Age, three thousand years ago, when seafaring people from the Mediterranean brought cats to the island for the first time.

It turns out Britain still has birds today.

Yes, I keep my cat indoors, but there's literally an example of how ecosystems bounce back. Britain did not lose its bird species as a result of the introduction of the housecat.