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Re:Why Bumblebees Love Cats and Other Beautiful Relationship... by adriand on Monday August 21, 2023 @10:26AM (#37209988)
Put a bell on your cat! Outdoor cats are responsible for a huge amount of ecological devastation, the least you can do, if you insist on your predator roaming freely outdoors, is put a bell on it to try and give local species a warning.
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Re:Why Bumblebees Love Cats and Other Beautiful Relationship... by alexo67 on Monday August 21, 2023 @10:59AM (#37210444)
Do not put a bell on your cat, like ever. It is harmful to your cat's health.
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Re:Why Bumblebees Love Cats and Other Beautiful Relationship... by Garrrrrr on Monday August 21, 2023 @11:48AM (#37211182)
It could be harmful to your cat's health if they don't like the noise of the bell. Not all cats are bothered by it though
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Re:Why Bumblebees Love Cats and Other Beautiful Relationship... by nomel on Monday August 21, 2023 @12:35PM (#37211940)
The risk isn't the sound, it's catching on something. But, there are bells that are integrated into the collar, to prevent this.
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Re:Why Bumblebees Love Cats and Other Beautiful Relationship... by wkat4242 on Monday August 21, 2023 @12:22PM (#37211706)
They don't even work anyway. The cats are so good at walking without wobbling and the bells aren't loud anyway.
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Re:Why Bumblebees Love Cats and Other Beautiful Relationship... by VoodooJuJu on Monday August 21, 2023 @11:49AM (#37211200)
Cat's don't cause ecological devastation.

Cats as a species kill an emotionally large sum of birds and small mammals, but they don't radically transform ecosystems. It's human industry and habitat expansion that devastates ecologies, not their garden prowlers plucking the occasional bird or chipmunk.

I'd never bell the lad.

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Re:Why Bumblebees Love Cats and Other Beautiful Relationship... by kian on Monday August 21, 2023 @12:15PM (#37211602)
Only do this if you are certain that zero predators live in your surrounding area.
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Re:Why Bumblebees Love Cats and Other Beautiful Relationship... by postsantum on Monday August 21, 2023 @12:23PM (#37211731)
Seconding this. OP, by letting your pet to roam around and have fun you are contributing to the local fauna's extinction. I hate to see how Australia[1] is responding to this issue but something needs to be done

[1] https://theconversation.com/australian-shelters-and-pounds-k...

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