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This shit kills 4 billion birds annually and nobody cares
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I care
I do my part
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>>4924579
Foodists are straight up admitting to animal abuse?
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>>4924583
It's not animal abuse if it's a cat. Cats are less than animals.
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>>4924583
Pest control isnt animal abuse
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>>4924576
I have lost all the hopes in anything environmental to be fair. If our species so dumb,then let us take everything down with us. Maybe life in this planet will remain
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>>4924576
My husky and pitbull both seem to care. Teehee.
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>>4924583
>>I do my part
>WAAAAAAAAAAAAA IS THAT HECKIN ANIMAL ABUSE?!?!??? YOU HAVE SEX WITH ANIMALS
imagine the increase in site quality if redditors and toxobrains (98% overlap) were banned
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>>4924576
if evolution israel why don't nature invent birds that are immune to cats?
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>>4924691
It did. They're called European birds. But American birds haven't evolved with cats the same way those did.
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>>4924576
Oh no my heckin' urban songbirds
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>>4924694
Oh no my heckin community cats
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>>4924576
There is literally no substantial evidence for this other than birdfags screeching
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>>4924576
Based. T Rex btfo
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>>4924805
I understand the argument that they should be removed from places like Australia, but I live in an area where there used to be bobcats, but there aren't any anymore.

Also no one ever points out that domesticated cats can only really run rampant in ecosystems that have already been disrupted by humans (with exceptions like Australia and isolated islands of course). Cats would get killed and out competed by wolves and bobcats if they were still around (and people would be less likely to let their pets outside).
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>>4924811
The more solid argument is outdoor cat faggotry spreading a miscarriage/schizophrenia causing parasite and directly resulting in cats dying early and horribly.
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he's out of control, we need to find this particular cat and lock him in a house
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>>4924817
>outdoor cat faggotry spreading a miscarriage/schizophrenia causing parasite
is that what happened to you?
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I see houses that have both cat food and bird feeders on the porch

I'll take a picture next time if I remember
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>>4924829
my neighbors do that.

but the cats and the birds they feed are both invasive here, and the cats don't survive the winter so I don't really care.
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>>4924828
I’m toxo negative but my sister (5 cats, indoor outdoor) lost her last 2 pregnancies "for no diagnosable reason"
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>>4924832
I'm sorry to hear that. In my country the first thing they tell pregnant women is to stay away from cat shit.
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>>4924576
Well, it won't go well against a snake, one of my mine got bitten today and died.

If I had intervened quick enough, the snake couldn't of bothered slithering fast away, cat would of been alive if I didn't bother going around weeding around the garden. It was a rascal cat but still lovable, but I can't deal with moping around. That's life.
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>>4924879
>using of instead of have
>starts weeding the garden instead of getting a suffering animal medical attention
what do you gain by ragebaiting made-up stories online? are the loosh farmers paying you or you do it for free? this board might be more godless than /sci/. eternal void for you.
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>>4924833
Telling the toxopozzed to stay away from cat shit is like telling pedos to stay away from schools
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>>4924882
Okay, thanks for sharing your hypocrisy.
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>>4924879
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>>4924890
>heh... you make up stories too
it's time to go back edgy reddit atheist
t. not following a mainstream or pop pagan religion
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>>4924902
You okay?

>>4924901

None of that, but, if two or three of my cats had a go at it, would have been lucky, sad, really. Good luck making friends.
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>>4924902
what
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>>4924576
Yeah a lot of things kill small birds constantly, your castrated wasteland of suburbia doesn't have any of them like any real wildlife though so you don't know
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>>4925055
Actually they’re the only things suburbia has

With a husky (cat removal), sparrow proofed nest boxes, and the correct feed and seed you will absolutely see more biodiversity in your backyard than you would in the woods.
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>>4924576
i care. i cheer for my cat whenever he slaughters parasitic starlings
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>>4924901
Is that snake poisonous? Properly the only reason one of my cats died because the snake obviously may of had eggs. Cute cats though.
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>>4924576
they've wiped out all the wild rabbits in my area, which were around when I moved here ten years ago. even would get them living under my shed. but now I have not seen any in years and the stray cat population has exploded because people feed them
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>>4925133
Any proof they were "wiped out" other than "i don't see them near my house anymore"?
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>>4924901
>>4924879
Python strangles the life out of a cat:

https://youtu.be/d0PfvSw-btg?si=9lsW_eBcK1_CnKCo
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>>4924576
>kills 4 billion birds annually
Avian flu: payback.
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>>4924576
based, it's time to put some respect on our buddies name
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>>4924576
That one specific cat? That's pretty damn impressive numbers.
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>>4924576
How can we stop him!?
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>>4924576
Yeah, and?
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>>4924922
He has a sense of delusion.
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>>4924576
Yes, if cats wouldn't do that, birds would shit in your mouth daily
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>>4924576
invasive starling and sparrow control
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>>4924576
Skill Issue
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>>4924576
Say your last prayer, rodent
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>>4925944
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>>4925213
Samefagging
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>>4924576
A kitty gotta eat.
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Fuck birds, they’re annoying and shit on everything. They’re the last remains of dinosaurs and cats are doing a good thing by helping to finish what the meteor started. Those soulless sky lizards need to die off.
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>>4924576
Based kot making redditors seethe
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>>4924576
How's the knot dogfag?
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>>4925999
No one here knows how “the knot” is, but you clearly want to

If i had to guess its horrendously painful for both parties due to anatomical mismatch which is why its illegal now fuck off toxobrain
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>>4924576
Based bird Hitler
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Look if you really give a shit about helping native animal populations you'd just be burning housing developments down. Don't pretend your baby serial killer shit is noble.
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>>4925965
Dumb city rat woman
Cats are not made to be your 24/7 pet slave
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>>4926031
Don't worry, Dogs are even pussies when it comes to cats too.
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>>4925193
Doesn't matter, it was a venomous snake that got it.
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>>4926031
edgy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoE_9q6BiTo
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>>4926053
Cats were bred by egyptians to be locked in temples 24/7. The reason domesticated cats form colonies and wild cats do not is because egyptians got rid of any cat that couldnt tolerate cramped conditions with other cats, which meant selecting for the neotenous ones that kept kittens clustering tendencies.

80% of cats in the US are indoors and they are longer lived and do not spread toxo or black plague like their uselessly neglected cousins
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>>4924583
Foodists are fucking with 4chan now? I thought they only tried fucking with the sharty
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>>4925098
>i care. i cheer for my cat whenever he slaughters parasitic starlings
based flying lizard hater
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>>4925987
>soulless sky lizards need to die off.
i lost
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There was a thread that got archived and I can't find it anymore. An anon posted about how he used something as a chemical barrier to keep the stray cats out of his yard. Does anyone recall what he posted? Did I just imagine all this in a dissociative schizophrenic episode?
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>>4926494
Hot pepper powder.
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>>4924583
>animal abuse
Animal abuse is letting cats roam free and kill native wildlife
I catch them with KFC bait and give them to my local council to be destroyed
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>>4924576
>This shit
He can't keep getting away with this!
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>>4924576
And that's a good thing!
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>>4924576
We need more outdoor cucumbers.
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>>4924579
>>4924585
>>4924589
>>4924654
>>4924576
>>4925965
>NOOOOO NOT MY HECKIN' BIRDRIN- ACK!
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>>4926845
Birds are literally terrorists
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>>4924576
Mine have little bells on their collars.
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>>4927254
Mine too and yet he managed to grab a fucking pigeon].
Through the window net.
Cats don't fuck around.
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>>4926845
>>4926846
>>4926848
>dog eating culture paying for its sins
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>>4926845
Where's the bird?
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>>4924826
Lol
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>>4929238
>noooo you cant dislike cats on a bird website! MODS
lol
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>>4924576


BASED

>Max the cat’s fight compilation Part 2

https://youtu.be/uEIsTAErOAI?si=MC-mZ4XlZN8f8ExP
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I invented cats because I got mad about birds shitting on my car
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>>4924576
It's not just birds. They're also killing off dolphins, belugas, sea otters, seals, and other marine life:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/pathogens-from-humans-cats-kill-seals-dolphins/#:~:text=Cat%20Poop%20Sickens%20Dolphins,a%20leading%20sleuth%20of%20pollutagens.

>The most studied terrestrial pathogen currently affecting sea animals comes courtesy of America's favorite house pet, the cat. Toxoplasma gondii, a relative of S. neurona, is a protozoan parasite—a single-celled organism. T. gondii completes its reproductive cycle inside felines and has adapted so that it can invade and thrive inside the tissue of other creatures.

>Today T. gondii has invaded sea life worldwide, from Miller's California sea otters, to dolphins that have become stranded in the Mediterranean Sea, to the critically endangered Hawaiian monk seals, of which few remain. “It truly is a cosmopolitan disease,” says Stephen Raverty, a veterinary pathologist at British Columbia's Animal Health Center and a leading sleuth of pollutagens.

>Grigg's work in the Pacific Northwest, where much of the pollutagen research is centered, has found that more than half of dead raptors and more than one third of dead seabirds examined had the T. gondii parasite. “That was much higher than we had envisioned,” he says.

>T. gondii was found recently in beluga whales in Arctic waters thought to be pristine, a dubious first.
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>>4931844
God, cats are fucking worthless.
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>>4931850
>parasites on cat
>blames the cat

blame the fuckgin parasite idiot
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>>4931862
The parasite can't reproduce without cats, retard.

This is the ecological cost of owning a cat and refusing to let them be culled:

>Toxoplasmosis is, however, a confirmed cause of death in Hector’s and Māui dolphins and is likely to be a significant human-caused threat to the dolphins’ populations. This is especially the case for the critically endangered Māui dolphin.

>With only 54 Māui dolphins over the age of one left, according to our last population survey, the most immediate risk is to this subspecies.

https://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/pests-and-threats/diseases/toxoplasmosis-and-hectors-and-maui-dolphin/#:~:text=How%20are%20dolphins%20exposed%20to,and%20flowing%20out%20to%20sea.
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>>4931867
>only 54 Māui dolphins over the age of one left
>destroy all dolphins by fishing, blame it on cats
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>>4931862
It is the cats. Specifically the cats owner for believing they belong anywhere but indoors.
Indoor cats dont get toxo. Indoor cats dont spread toxo.

Cats are dumb as bricks and need next to no mental stimulation and zero freedom. Most cat owners I know have 2+ happily chilling in studio apartments. They aren’t dogs. They don’t need to explore and socialize to be sane. If anything the apartment cats are saner, less skittery and less aggressive.
>but they are getting rid of le mice!
Never have. Do not. Especially not outside. Maybe if you locked a cat in a building with just 2 or 3 mice and no infestation but an untrained dog or a spring trap 5 pack could pull that off.

>>4931868
>omg cats cant be a problem now because there were other problems in the past!
Just keep mittens inside.
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>>4931873
Every person with a brain keeps their cat inside or in a catio. Who wants their cat crippled by a car or losing an eye in a fight? Or getting killed by someone's shit dog.
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>>4931873
>They don’t need to explore and socialize
They do need it. Cats with mental stimulation are smarter than those without it. They develop pathological behaviors from udnersimulation. But you can enrich their lives inside too if you make an effort to.
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>>4924576
there's like 50+ billion birds, who cares
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>>4931883
No they really don’t lol

No one does that shit and their cats are fine
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>>4931977
You think they are fine but not. You can make the same argument about keeping a dog on a chain and saying they are fine bevcause they just lay around all day everyday. And people kept dogs like that for decades.
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>>4931978
>noooo you need to make the animal adapt to being more active because, you do ok!
Its more akin to never walking a very dumb and naturally lethargic chihuahua and letting them continue chilling. These totally indoor cats are all friendly and happy.
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>>4931978
>compares keeping a cat indoors to keeping a more intelligent social animal on a chain
those dogs get mopey and aggressive or go insane.

indoor cats are just normal cats. provide scratching post, string, and cardboard box. wala. you do not need to walk a cat or let it out.
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>>4931970
I care, and I am more important than you.
>Why?
I said so.
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>>4931844
>>4931867
>>4931991
Anyone that lets their cat go outside is a retard and should not be allowed to own a pet. Cats are invasive if let to roam free, live less and are more prone to diseases.
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>>4932012
I didn't say let it outside. I said you need to enrich their indoor life / build a catio where they can go outside safely.

Understimulated cats are unpleasant and grumpy hence the "cats are assholes" meme.
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>>4932020
Cats should just be banned as pets. Better for the environment and ecosystems. Better for internet content. Better all around.
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>>4932975
Ban shit dogs too then. Same improvement.
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>>4932981
This isn't true at all. Why do catfags have to constantly lie to defend their worthless pets?
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>>4932979
Toxo kills more people (as well as intelligent marine life such as dolphins) than shitbulls, and shitbulls are the worst/deadliest dog breeds. So cats are far worse by any empirical measure.
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>>4932984
Pigeons are more intelligent than cats.
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>>4932983
Dogs spread deadly diseases to marine life too like distemper. Dog food production has a huge enviromental impact, dogs need way more calories than cats too, and the biggest threat to any wild animal is loss of enviroment. On top of it dog shit is a pollutant, infecting rivers and lakes and harming freshwater life.
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>>4932987
Pets eat slaughterhouse waste. All of these problems are solved.

Keep your cat inside and we’re even
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>>4932991
Everyone with a working brain keep their cats inside.
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>>4932987
Cats are much much worse on every single one of those charges.
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>>4933201
Cats are literaly a non-issue outside of Australia or other islands.
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>>4924576
Very based
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>>4933252
Lying cat FAGGOT

>Free-ranging domestic cats have been introduced globally and have contributed to multiple wildlife extinctions on islands.

>Here we conduct a systematic review and quantitatively estimate mortality caused by cats in the United States. We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.3–4.0 billion birds and 6.3–22.3 billion mammals annually. Our findings suggest that free-ranging cats cause substantially greater wildlife mortality than previously thought and are likely the single greatest source of anthropogenic mortality for US birds and mammals.

>Predation by domestic cats is the number-one direct, human-caused threat to birds in the United States and Canada.

>In the United States alone, outdoor cats kill approximately 2.4 billion birds every year. Although this number may seem unbelievable, it represents the combined impact of tens of millions of outdoor cats. Each outdoor cat plays a part.

https://abcbirds.org/program/cats-indoors/cats-and-birds/#:~:text=Cats%20%231%20Threat%20to%20Birds,outdoor%20cat%20plays%20a%20part.
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>>4933283
>have contributed to multiple wildlife extinctions on islands
like I said. Islands. Literal non-issue, they mostly catch sparrows and starlings.
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>>4933285
Did you read the rest of that post or are catfags this retarded?

>Here we conduct a systematic review and quantitatively estimate mortality caused by cats in the United States. We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.3–4.0 billion birds and 6.3–22.3 billion mammals annually.

>In total, cats are estimated to kill between 100 and 350 million birds per
year in Canada (> 95% of estimates were in this range)
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>>4933313
So? More food for falcons and coyotes no?
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>>4933321
Catfags don't care about the ecological destruction their worthless pets cause

You can't even train cats to do anything useful. They're terrible at eradicating vermin.
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>>4933458
They are the vermin
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>>4924576
The worst part is not that they kill birds/lizards but they also leave the vermins/pests those animals deal with alone. En-Shittifying the whole ecosystem and the world in general.
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>>4932992
You just leave the bag there and then pick it up on your way back. Dog owners are known for their integrity and love of nature.
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>cat kills bird in backyard
Nooo disgusting pest!
>Dog kills rabbit in backyard
Based hecking pupperino apex predator, rabbits exist to be eaten by dogs
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>>4933527
Dogs could never kill 4 bil rabbits. Infact the rabbits would double in number before even a quarter of them die
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>>4933540
Most of this damage is done by the large population of unowned feral animals.
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>>4933527
Backyard birds are all sparrows and shit. Rabbits, too, are worthless pests.

The ONLY problem is roaming cats, just like roaming dogs are a problem in shitholes. All the extinctions and toxo come from roaming cats venturing further from humans and so called farm cats that have never controlled pests but do help toxoplasmosis be the second leading cause of fatal foodborne illness.

If you can keep the cat in your backyard or indoors you have nothing to do with any of that shit and the cat will never kill anything that didnt deserve it.
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>>4933527
the cats are killing birds in nature preserves however
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>>4924576
He cute
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>>4924576
he's just one guy. how does he keep getting away with it?
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>>4933590
Unplug router, clear cookies, plug router back in. Wa La.
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>>4933590
$12/gb residential proxies
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cat
>hmm, should i physically remove one of the countless pigeons infesting the neighborhood?
>nah, lets just climb on a roof and pillage a tiny nest instead
hopefully enough are raised in the neighborhood this year that the tiny birdies cover their flanks. laser pointers only help a bit
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>>4934033
>>4934035
Pet owners live longer. Dog owners specifically are more likely to marry, more likely to have children, and less likely to be victims of violent crime. The latter also applies to their neighbors.

Only mentally ill asians would ever agree with you. The kind of people who see pets as enabling people to break from the hivemind without feeling the scorn, shaming, and isolation. This in particular is why islam REALLY hates dogs and insists cats are unowned roamers. The pet owner man, and scarier to them, woman, weathers the storm.
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>>4934038
This.
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>>4924826
The problem is that hes too fast
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>>4934069
Santa can deliver presents to a billion nice euro children in one night. Santa could catch him. We may have to enlist his services.



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