[macintux]

Stray animals, cats in particular, are contributing to the rapid decline of our bird population. Freedom to breed animals in an irretrievably broken ecosystem is a dubious proposition.

(I’m not advocating for a ban but there aren’t any good options here. )

[josephcsible]

Isn't the real problem not breeding animals, but rather releasing them into the environment? Why not crack down on the latter instead?

[macintux]

I don’t know how you can accomplish either, but breeding is much easier to detect than releasing into the wild. Basically if someone is selling animals, they’d need a license…which now that I write it, doesn’t seem all that impractical.