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Keeping pet cats indoors would save millions of native animals and billions of dollars. So what's stopping us? (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Broader adoption of keeping cats safe at home would have large benefits for cat welfare, human health, local wildlife and even the economy. So, should cat owners be required to keep their pets contained to their property?

The answer to the question is obviously "yes".

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Selfishness

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The factual answer

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Don’t forget laziness.

[–] naevaTheRat 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Benefits for cats: No FIV infections, no car injuries, safe temperatures, no fights, no parasites.

Benefits for wildlife: no murder, fewer vectors, no loss of habitat to cats

Benefits for community: no roaming cats triggering sensor lights/setting off other pets/damaging property with claws, no toxo transmission, no digging up poo while gardening/losing plants to cat piss

Cons to cats: Keepers must provide entertainment

Cons to keepers: Exercise the level of basic responsibility every other keeper of pets is expected to, or parent with children.

Issue: Controversial??????????

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Super controversial. I know plenty of people that are against pets indoors altogether.

Went to a vet specialised in behaviour to help with one of my cats. She insisted that I should let them out.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think this is the the thread with the highest ratio of downvoted top level comments to upvotes ones I've ever seen on Lemmy

[+] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ah I'm just here for the drama, so it suits me just fine

Jokes aside, it did surprise me a bit. Considering Lemmy tends to be quite left leaning and big into climate activism and stuff of that nature, I really didn't expect there to be this many people who disagree with the OP. I've never really seen more than 1 comment per thread that goes against the common opinion

[+] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People also only care about the environment for as long as it has nothing to do with their personal life

Plane travel i think is Australian's biggest problem on this. I once had a friend spitting daggers at me for suggesting the amount of waste caused by travelling to a place like Europe every year needs to be stopped (read: trips spaced out further) until we access a different less carbon intensive transport.

I thought the point i's making was really, really moderate considering the impacts, but my friend turned on me like i'd just insulted their mothers favourite budgie.

It was a surreal moment.

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