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by wrboyce 222 days ago
The American fetish with locking cats indoors is extremely weird, and your neighbour sounds like a first class bellend (and the one who belongs in confinement, at best).
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reaperducer 222 days ago
The American fetish with locking cats indoors

Today I learned that part of "America" is in the southern hemisphere.

https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2024/05/roaming...

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ozozozd 221 days ago
Those stats on “how free roaming pet cats harm the society” will be a tiny bit hard to believe for anyone who has spent more than a few hours in Istanbul.

Assuming the pet cat in Australia is the same pet cat in Europe.

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reaperducer 221 days ago
As it happens, I've spent quite a lot of time in Istanbul. Those are feral cats, not pet cats.
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ozozozd 217 days ago
Which one? Your article cited pet cats in Australia.

Not sure how to classify the ones in Istanbul, but the point stands that the amount of harm claimed in the article is overblown.

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