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Re:How to Clear 500k Feral Cats from New York’s Streets by yabatopia on Thursday June 08, 2023 @10:41PM (#36252430)
Humans kill far more birds than feral cats. Agriculture, pesticides, deforestation, destruction of fields and grasslands, the use of mice and rat poison, car traffic, wind turbines, ... it all adds up. It makes feral cats look like amateurs showing up on a gun fight with a pencil.

In the EU, a 2021 study of 378 bird species estimated that bird numbers fell by as much as 19 percent from 1980 to 2017. And that's not because of cats, feral or not.

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Re:How to Clear 500k Feral Cats from New York’s Streets by rcpt on Friday June 09, 2023 @12:22AM (#36253108)
As long as we're being ridiculous and unserious I suppose you support TNR for humans to?
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Re:How to Clear 500k Feral Cats from New York’s Streets by smcl on Friday June 09, 2023 @03:31AM (#36254534)
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

I think we both know this person isn't supporting TNR for humans, don't be silly

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Re:How to Clear 500k Feral Cats from New York’s Streets by oefrha on Friday June 09, 2023 @01:03AM (#36253441)
The good ol’ “there are many contributing factors, so how dare you try to solve one of them” argument.
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Re:How to Clear 500k Feral Cats from New York’s Streets by cgio on Friday June 09, 2023 @06:41AM (#36255888)
“Animals are dying. Let’s kill the animals that kill them” argument I would call it.
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Re:How to Clear 500k Feral Cats from New York’s Streets by oefrha on Friday June 09, 2023 @07:42AM (#36256367)
<s>kill the animals</s> breed fewer of those animals

FTFY.

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Re:How to Clear 500k Feral Cats from New York’s Streets by red-iron-pine on Friday June 09, 2023 @04:32PM (#36263780)
the non-native animals (cats) that are disrupting the ecosystem argument
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