Anonymous #1 11w

People who live near busy streets and woods and shit? Absolutely.

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Anonymous #1 11w

Urban, suburban, and rural all carry their own risks, no matter where you are there’s still the chance of danger from cars, parasites, ticks, illnesses, other animals (dogs, coyotes, skunks, raccoons, other cats), getting stuck somewhere, getting lost, frostbite, hypothermia, dehydration, and heatstroke

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Anonymous OP 11w

I mean like my girlfriend’s parents have a doggy door, and the cats use it all the time when we’re there, just to go chill on the back porch 90% of the time anyways lmao

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Anonymous #2 11w

So yes definitely keep them inside, both if you care about your cat and if you care about the environment because there are people out there like my ornithology teacher who care about the latter much more than the former.

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It's true to say this about feral cats, but even larger than that is "outdoor cats", ones who have homes and owners to return to and by that measure cannot even become a native population subject to environmental pressures, while still hunting small animals all the time for sport. It does seem cruel and even sociopathic to imagine from the cat owner's perspective, but from an environmentalist perspective that type of bluntness does make sense.

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Anonymous #2 11w

I also do not think it was meant to be taken at face value, rather more as a shocking way to illustrate how bad outdoor cats, feral cats, etc can be.

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