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Re:Chasing Cats by BinaryIdiot on Friday July 08, 2016 @10:18PM (#12059773)
Right on with your view of the birds with clipped wings but your cat view...I mean, did you have a bad experience or something? I've known quite a lot of people (especially farmers) who keep outdoor cats and they rarely destroy anything beyond killing some pests. In fact outdoor cats are HUGELY valuable for farms because of pest control.

Some animals will become pests no matter what but I've never met someone with such a negative view of outdoor cats it was just a bit surprising.

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Re:Chasing Cats by omegaham on Saturday July 09, 2016 @07:17AM (#12060950)
Agreed - the problems I've always had with cats have been the feral ones, not the fatass neutered neighborhood cats.
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Re:Chasing Cats by binaryorganic on Friday July 08, 2016 @10:40PM (#12059824)
I have cat hoarding neighbors. It can be a real problem. Feces. Hair. Mice (read: flies). Also, I have a son with a flea allergy.

A cat or two never bothers me. But when my neighbor gets to putting out 5 or 6 food dishes for the strays each Spring, we can easily find a dozen cats in our back yard.

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Re:Chasing Cats by danharaj on Friday July 08, 2016 @10:55PM (#12059873)
Outdoor cats are a scourge on songbirds.
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