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Re:How to Clear 500k Feral Cats from New York’s Streets by throwaway_99999 on Thursday June 08, 2023 @10:14PM (#36252268)
We are way past this point. This huge population of cats exists solely because we are breeding cats. Besides that, we are killing lots of other, apparently lesser animals, in order to feed them to our cats. What do you call this, if not playing god?
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Re:How to Clear 500k Feral Cats from New York’s Streets by MrOwnPut on Thursday June 08, 2023 @10:19PM (#36252295)
Cats don't need help breeding. GP even said "feral cat".

I don't know of any "cat breeders". They are just a resilient species.

I suppose we could make some sort of "equity" system for species based on an arbitrary metric, but that's closer to playing God.

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Re:How to Clear 500k Feral Cats from New York’s Streets by throwaway_99999 on Thursday June 08, 2023 @10:30PM (#36252366)
Domestic cats as a species had been introduced to America by humans, and still are explicitly kept and feed by humans. I'd call that breeding. This also sets an easy and natural metric of how many cats should be there: 0.
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Re:How to Clear 500k Feral Cats from New York’s Streets by MrOwnPut on Thursday June 08, 2023 @10:33PM (#36252382)
So your metric is how an animal got to a location?

Birds can fly, not really fair to the feline species concerning which places it's allowed, eh?

Zero cats should be allowed to exist in NA?

No open borders for cats!?

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Re:How to Clear 500k Feral Cats from New York’s Streets by guraf on Friday June 09, 2023 @03:33AM (#36254548)
> Zero cats should be allowed to exist in NA?

Zero non neutered cat should be allowed to exist in North America, correct.

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Re:How to Clear 500k Feral Cats from New York’s Streets by romwell on Friday June 09, 2023 @07:13PM (#36265602)
>Domestic cats as a species had been introduced to America by humans, and still are explicitly kept and feed by humans. I'd call that breeding. This also sets an easy and natural metric of how many cats should be there: 0.

Same applies to humans of non-native descent, I presume?

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