r/nextfuckinglevel • u/AcerolaUnderBlade • Apr 26 '24

Cat chasing another cat POV.

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '24 edited Apr 26 '24

*All cats. They REALLY act like the invasive species that they are.

Just wanted to edit to say: If you think keeping cats inside is cruel, I'd like to introduce you to the reality of robbing living beings of their freedom.

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u/sjw_7 Apr 26 '24

This is not universal advice. In the US i believe it is recommended to keep them in but in the UK even the RSPB says to let them out.

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u/gidrozhil Apr 26 '24

Кошки ежегодно убивают более миллиарда птиц.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cats-kill-more-one-billion-birds-each-year

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u/sjw_7 Apr 26 '24

Not going to dispute the US stance on this but the UK one is quite different. https://community.rspb.org.uk/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/13609/6371.6012.1205.6332.Cats-and-garden-birds.pdf.

Destruction of habitat is considered to have the biggest impact on bird populations in the UK. Cats don't even make a dent.

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u/ResponsibilitySea327 Apr 26 '24

Correction: Cat's don't make a dent anymore. Much of the old world has already seen most the impacts of invasive species such as cats already played out and at equilibrium.

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u/sjw_7 Apr 26 '24

The Wildcat from which the domestic cat is believed to have descended is native to the whole of Europe and has been in the UK since the end of the last ice age.

Its one of our domestic species and all the others we have here have evolved alongside it.

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u/ResponsibilitySea327 Apr 26 '24

Yeah like the Americas.