Re:Alabama women, 85 and 61, sentenced after feeding stray cats
by CGamesPlay on Sunday December 18, 2022 @03:06AM
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Can you spell that out for me? Wouldn't the cat population self-regulate if food supply was more constrained?
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Re:Alabama women, 85 and 61, sentenced after feeding stray cats
by harryVic on Sunday December 18, 2022 @03:08AM
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The food supply is native birds and animals that have not evolved for a non native species like the feral cat.
Re:Alabama women, 85 and 61, sentenced after feeding stray cats
by isitmadeofglass on Sunday December 18, 2022 @03:46AM
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Cats kill pray even if they are well fed. So humans feeding them will increase the impact on other species not decrease it.
Re:Alabama women, 85 and 61, sentenced after feeding stray cats
by Euphorbium on Sunday December 18, 2022 @12:43PM
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In 20 generations animals evolve pretty much anything. Enough of this non native bs, cats have lived with humans for thousands of years, and 50 years is enough to adapt to pretty much anything.
Re:Alabama women, 85 and 61, sentenced after feeding stray cats
by ErneX on Sunday December 18, 2022 @03:10AM
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They need to be population controlled, so rather than killing cats what these women do is neuter the cats they can and try to keep them fed.
They also try to get people to adopt some of the cats, but there are so many it’s an uphill battle.
Re:Alabama women, 85 and 61, sentenced after feeding stray cats
by godelski on Sunday December 18, 2022 @03:22AM
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Cats are invasive species to North America and are high quality predators. Their food supply is quite large.
Re:Alabama women, 85 and 61, sentenced after feeding stray cats
by bagels on Sunday December 18, 2022 @04:08AM
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Domesticated cats, yes, but I think bobcats and mountain lions are native?
Re:Alabama women, 85 and 61, sentenced after feeding stray cats
by godelski on Sunday December 18, 2022 @11:32AM
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There are several big cats, yes. But I think everyone understood that when I said "cats" I meant "the kind you have in your house" and did not need to be further clarified. American native cats also include the lynx, ocelot, and jaguar. For further clarification, I am also not discussing these cats. You may notice that these cats are very different sizes.
Re:Alabama women, 85 and 61, sentenced after feeding stray cats
by Ar-Curunir on Sunday December 18, 2022 @03:07AM
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They’re getting the cats neutered/spayed. So they’re doing population control that the county isn’t doing.