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While this may be contravertial It needs to be said

While cats are loved by many, a lot of people put them outside, let them become feral, or stray. Both are just as bad as they aren't natural, native, to the land they are in. They kill and kill and kill. While your cat killing something may not to you be seen as a big deal, every other cat does that too. The result is around 60+ species killed off, extinct, no longer existing. All due to cats. And before you say "oh it's just useless rodents" no actually, the species they kill of are avians (birds) and reptiles. (lizards and sneks) while many people say "oh birds they'll poo on the cars" they actually provide fertilization for plants while reptiles take care of insects, and if large enough they even go after some rodents too. That being said to kill them off may seem like nothing but an extinct animal is extinct regardless.

Let me take you to a different species. The iguana, invasive in florida for eating some plants. While they're invasive they're being shot relentlessly. No season no kill per day limit, hell you can kill as many as you see in a day legally and it's more socially acceptable than say killing a cat, although they do far less damage eating some plants than cats do destroying the environment no thanks to humans.

Key point is that invasive animals are not welcome. They're dangerous to the environment and as such are killed nearly on site, again seemingly not applying to cats. All I ask is why...and sympathy towards reptiles which seemingly lack support
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4meAndyouF
I think it is because cats are what we call a domesticated animal. They are like family members to many people, and it would not occur to anyone that if they are let outside they damage the environmental populations of other species.

I have a friend who feeds the ferals and strays in her neighborhood in Florida, and she also makes sure they are spayed.
SeadragonPrincess26-30, F
@4meAndyou just pisses me off that people in the same state kill iguanas for eating plants...and cheering on cats for killing species to extinction "oh it's natural" for cats to cause extinction but not for some lizards to eat plants
4meAndyouF
@SeadragonPrincess Not everyone appreciates lizards...(or dragons). 馃き It must be discrimination.
SeadragonPrincess26-30, F
@4meAndyou I mean yeah I can tell which is why I don't like humans that much. They are fine with using lizards as live bait for fish but when a cat is shot in the head "oh animal abuse" like boi
4meAndyouF
@SeadragonPrincess Good heavens. If a fish won't rise to an earth worm, I don't want it.馃槰
SeadragonPrincess26-30, F
@4meAndyou I caught fish with some corn...it's not hard. No need to jab a lizard in the guts for it
4meAndyouF
@SeadragonPrincess We used to use those red fish eggs, too.
SeadragonPrincess26-30, F
@4meAndyou well fish eggs are normally in the water...lizards don't swim in the middle of a big body of water
4meAndyouF
@SeadragonPrincess You are so right. Snakes...now that's another story.
SeadragonPrincess26-30, F
@4meAndyou well snakes are needed too and yeah they're sometimes in the water stealing fish eggs but they aren't the one being used as fish bait not to mention it'd be just as wrong if fish will bite on damn corn
4meAndyouF
@SeadragonPrincess I hate snakes. Just saying.馃槤
SeadragonPrincess26-30, F
I prefer lizards to snakes but both are reptiles and I mean no need to hate on them at all @4meAndyou
4meAndyouF
@SeadragonPrincess I had some very scary childhood experiences out in Nebraska. Three of them.
SeadragonPrincess26-30, F
Yeah kind of being on their territory they can be quite grumpy@4meAndyou
4meAndyouF
@SeadragonPrincess One of my incidents, two of my boy cousins chopped the head off a black snake they found on their front porch, and let it wrap its headless bloody body around a hoe. Then they chased me all around the farmyard with the dead snake. I was screaming in fear and hyperventilating while I was trying to run, and my mother was right there IN the main house. She could have come out any time and could have stopped them, but she didn't. I am still not over that.
SeadragonPrincess26-30, F
@4meAndyou poor snake. Why would you run in fear...Why would they cut off the head of an innocent snake
4meAndyouF
@SeadragonPrincess Ugh!!! Bloody headless snakes are not my thing, especially when they are still wriggling.
SeadragonPrincess26-30, F
@4meAndyou Well I don't get why people cut their head off anyways like that's abuse.
4meAndyouF
@SeadragonPrincess It was quite horrible. We were all about 10 or 11 years old.
SeadragonPrincess26-30, F
@4meAndyou but it was not the snakes fault it was the idiots who killed it
4meAndyouF
@SeadragonPrincess I apologize in advance for saying this, but my fear of snakes was already there. We were cautioned about them from an early age. My Great-Aunts little dog was killed by a rattlesnake out in her garden. We were all taught to stay away from them and to fear them.
SeadragonPrincess26-30, F
@4meAndyou well I mean if you go into their area...theyre not going to be too happy
4meAndyouF
@SeadragonPrincess THAT's for sure. AND they usually decide almost anywhere is THEIR area. I went out to the mailbox once and I could hear a rattler in the barrow pit. It was about 20 feet away, so I got the mail and walked back up the driveway, and I could hear that snake coming up the barrow pit to where I had been, FAST.
SeadragonPrincess26-30, F
@4meAndyou well wildlife was there first, humans came second, Especially a native species which they are
4meAndyouF
@SeadragonPrincess True that.