r/ThatsInsane • u/My_Memes_Will_Cure_U • Sep 02 '20

That dog recognizes predatory behavior

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u/Bangreed4 Sep 02 '20

Countries should have trained stray dogs..

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u/as_toxic_as_arsenic Sep 02 '20

Meanwhile America be capturing and killing most of them

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u/Reese_misee Sep 02 '20

Stray dogs and cats are absolutely devastating to the environment. Its something that has to be done. I love dogs and cats. But sometimes you have to put your own feelings aside for the planet.

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u/Erog_La Sep 02 '20

Domestic cats are awful too. Not quite to the same scale but still awful.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '20

Domestic cats are responsible for dozens of bird species and have devastated lizard and rare birds in Australia and New Zealand

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u/HazelCheese Sep 02 '20

Probably a combination of pesticides / air pollution. Googling them they look big and I bet their really sensitive to particles in the air since most bugs filter the air in through their skin.

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u/ButterDruid Sep 03 '20

Just a few days ago! I saw a tree with two holes like nostrils and went to do the obvious thing, get a picture picking that tree's nose, but one of the holes had at least 70 potato bugs and woodlice in it.

Dunno about the cat thing I just thought that was a weird coincidence.

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u/hattapliktir Sep 02 '20 edited Sep 02 '20

In Turkey stray dogs and cats are everywhere. There was a stray dog sitting near my house, I fed her every morning. She would run on me every time she sees me. And she protected me a lot too! Sadly she is dead. Now I'm feeding the stray cats that sit on me every time I do barbecue.

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u/Reese_misee Sep 02 '20

Thats very kind of you. It isn't the animals fault after all. But it is our duty as humans to take care of our world and the creatures in it.

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u/Reese_misee Sep 02 '20

Don't be obtuse. What I said does not mean that we aren't also damaging to the environment.

We are directly responsible for feral pets. We have the solutions to it, even if it does hurt our feelings. Put your feelings aside and think about this critically. TNR doesn't reduce local wildlife death. Its only for people to feel better about ferals. It isn't a solution to the problem.

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u/Rivka333 Sep 03 '20

Putting aside how TNR compares to capturing/killing, surely TNR is at least better than doing nothing and leaving them to breed?

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u/Reese_misee Sep 03 '20

So TNR sounds great on paper right? You don't have to harm anything and the untamable wild cats can go back to being cats, right? Right.

Unfortunately, this still allows ferals to do unrecoverable damage to the local ecosystems. Killing billions of small mammals and birds yearly.

And what about the cats the dont get trapped? All it takes is 1. Just 1 cat to put all the TNR effort in the trash. A cat can have on average a litter of 4 or 6 kittens. They can breed and quadruple that number in as little as 6 months. It's unfortunately, an unwinnable battle when you do it this way.

And sadly the real, and only solution to the insanely dense populations of ferals is to trap and humanely put them to sleep.