#cat discourse

[the-ghost-rat]

Imagine if horse owners treated their horses the same way freeroam cat owners treated their cats

“Now i know my horse caused a car crash & is destroying the native wild life but have you considered animals YEARN to be outside?? Who cares if this is a city my horse NEEDS to run outside!! Not his faults car owners are reckless and the racoons and dogs are scaring him!!”

[canonmisogynyvictimstournament]

ISTG everyone here needs to check their attitude. I’m smiting everyone on the spot who keeps dismissing one woman’s pain just because of her species, or the other woman’s pain just because the misogyny she faced doesn’t seem ‘as bad’ as the others. Stop calling everyone stupid and dumb just because they disagree with your opinion. All of these women deserve the crown TBH, and it’s really uncomfortable and disappointing seeing how you all keep dismissing your fav’s opponent’s pain just because they’re opposing your fav or because they’re winning and your fav is losing

I don't think you understand how much this round has sucked for me, personally, this weekend for this exact reason. Do you know how much I hate The Discourse. I thought I would escape The Discourse by excluding Hetalia but nooooo, I guess not. God save me from the semifinals.

[kalesmash13]

Hot take but adult cats are better than kittens:

Adult cats have more personality, as it is fully developed. Kittens only exist in three states: eat sleep and play

Adult cats fur is fully grown and fluffy while kittens can still be scruffy even at 8 weeks

Adult cats can and will exist independently from you whereas kittens require your constant attention when the mom cat doesn't want to be around them

If you like kittens that's fine, but people who only get kittens and dump them when they're adults should be shot 👍

[vizsladyke]

TNR just does not work and literally euthanizing those cats would have been better for everyone involved. I know people have strong feelings about “killing innocent creatures” but they did TNR by my house when I was a kid and it was horrible. They released these cats again so they could continue disrupting the local bird population as they were picked off by coyotes. As a kid it was so common for me to find cat corpses on our property. These poor cats suffered a horrible death, I was traumatized, the local wildlife suffered, and no one benefited. There are no more cats. I understand people don’t want to to euthanize cats but it would have been a hell of a lot better for everyone.

[chetungwan]

I realize that indoor/outdoor cats is one of the New Discourses™, and that it almost certainly doesn't need yet another person weighing in on it. But I have bad impulse control and I'm too tired to stop myself

My parents got their first two cats together at the same time. My mom had been feeding a stray tom cat for a bit, and they noticed a local litter of cats that were probably his. He was double polydactyl, and half the kittens shared that trait. So they kept an eye on the litter, cause they liked the dad

One morning the whole litter was gone. A stray dog had gotten to them and killed all of them, including the mother. It was a literal bloodbath, like something out of a horror movie. My parents thought that there were no survivors

Until my mom got in her car, and found a tiny polydactyl calico in there with her.

Until my dad got home from work and realized there was mewing coming from his engine area.

Those two kittens were the only ones to make it. A single dog had taken out the whole group. And the kitten hidden in dad's engine, btw, was mentally messed up the rest of her life and eventually starved herself to death. Her name was Sally. She liked to chase pingpong balls around the bathtub, and she was incredibly anxious.

The other cat was Dominique. She lived til 17 years old and was an indoor cat since the day my mom found her in her car. She was our cat when I was born and snuggled me as a baby. My first word was pointing at her and saying "Gat!"

If my parents hadn't found her and kept her indoors, I'd never have met her. She was safe and happy for the rest of her very long life

Please keep your cat indoors. You do not know what they are getting up to outside. You do not know the dangers they are courting. There are stray dogs, foxes, rat poison, coolant fluid from cars. Please keep your cat alive. Please keep them inside

[lostryu]

why are you so obsessed with caging cats. stop chaining them up, it’s abuse

I’m sorry but letting your cat outside without a harness and leash, catio, or supervision is not abuse. It’s called responsible pet ownership. Just because my cat wants to eat rat poison does not mean I should let him, and making sure he can’t is not abuse.

You are anthropomorphizing cats. They do not think like humans do. Animals won’t understand common dangers and WILL eat whatever they think will taste good; even if it’s antifreeze, poison, or a mouse infected with parasites.

Also if you bother to enrich your cat through interactive toys, cat trees, and walks, you’ll find that they’re more happy and healthy.

[deandraxon]

There is no such thing as an “outdoor cat”. If you have an “outdoor cat”, congrats, the neighborhood stray likes you enough to let you pet and feed them. There are probably dozens of other families on the block that also claim that cat as their own.

That cat has dozens of names given to it by dozens of people.

You paid for a vet visit? Congrats, you spent money on a cat that will likely get hit by a car next week when you put them back outside.

Your cat is not yours unless it lives in your home exclusively. And you cannot complain if someone “steals” your cat. Because it’s not yours. It’s effectively a stray. And if somebody else is willing to give them the proper home you deny them, then you can’t whine about it.

[eroticcannibal]

I know this is a cancellable opinion but

Given the impact on other species. I think at least the places with very endangered species being preyed on by feral cats should consider culls.

Like i know it would never happen because the public would have a shit fit over cute animals being culled but. People gotta take responsibility for devastating ecosystems by irresponsible ownership of invasive species.