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Re:Ask HN: What's your "it's not stupid if it works" story? by explaininjs on Saturday December 23, 2023 @04:48AM (#38742957)
Would love to see that implemented here in USA. People in places like NYC love to catch and spay every cat they see, then go on to complain about too many rodents around.
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Re:Ask HN: What's your "it's not stupid if it works" story? by op00to on Saturday December 23, 2023 @08:17AM (#38744043)
Rodents are an issue of trash and food left around, not a problem of not enough cats.

Cats shit in my garden and leave dead songbirds where I grow food. No, we don’t need more cats.

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Re:Ask HN: What's your "it's not stupid if it works" story? by pjot on Saturday December 23, 2023 @10:36AM (#38744946)
Do you not think rodents are in your garden … where food is left around?
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Re:Ask HN: What's your "it's not stupid if it works" story? by explaininjs on Saturday December 23, 2023 @08:24PM (#38750145)
To be clear, your claims are:

1. An increase in the population of predators will have no effect on the population of the prey.

2. Rats don’t shit and/or aren’t attracted to food.

Are you speaking in jest or do you actually believe those? The fact that your second statement directly contradicts your first doesn’t help.

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