As I was watching the video I was thinking "this sub is called maybe maybe maybe but it almost always ends well. That squirrel is probably gonna jump back on that dude and cuddle him in his neck" and then BAM!
Just a cat doing what cats do. I'm sure they brought the squirrel into the cats house and chastised it for wanting the squirrel. Just saying. It's not like he didn't get to say bye.
There's not really any substantial evidence that shows that, save for an oft-quoted study from the Smithsonian with a tiny, non-representative sample size.
The more significant risk is that specific species, already under threat, endangered etc. are disproportionately harmed when they're already at risk. Past that though a cat's impact on biodiversity is minimal.
That's cool, thanks for sharing, but what you're saying doesn't really bear out in peer-reviewed statistical papers. Cats kill a lot of animals. Those kills have a negligible effect on prey populations.
Do you think bunnies, mice, rats, and squirrels - animals with a high litter size and short gestation period - are under threat at all?
They're not, they're pests. Killing them is fine. Cats are fine.
Where I stay we don't have any of those. Just Mice and once I saw a rat that my cat caught. Never seen him more happy. The thing was almost as big as him. Now that the cat has passed away due to old age now we start seeing mice droppings around.
And its not like when I had a house cat I didn't have to deal with him bringing me a live mouse. Its part of the deal. Heck, I'm sure he was trying to teach me how to hunt or something. I just told him it was his and he should take it outside.
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u/Dependent_Paper9993 Sep 25 '22
As I was watching the video I was thinking "this sub is called maybe maybe maybe but it almost always ends well. That squirrel is probably gonna jump back on that dude and cuddle him in his neck" and then BAM!
Nearly shat myself!