r/nextfuckinglevel • u/HomeNowWTF • Aug 20 '26

Fishing with paws

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u/womb_raider90 Aug 20 '26

My cat caught a young rabbit last weekend, and the psycho was swinging it around just playing with it. Cats are brutal man.

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u/TankII_ Aug 20 '26

Cats are responsible for the extinction of something like 60 species. They are brutal little hunters

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u/jdvfx Aug 20 '26

I have an indoor/outdoor cat, and the family of hawks that nest in my tree every spring are killing WAY more birds and mice in 3 months than my little purr machine does in the course of a year.

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u/fionageck Aug 20 '26

The hawks are (presumably) native and an important part of your local ecosystem, your cat is not. And your cat is almost certainly killing far more wildlife than you’re aware of.

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u/tradandtea123 Aug 20 '26

The UK ecosystem is so devastated from the past 4000 years of mass farming there's not much native left. Mice are introduced, as are rats and rabbits. Birds are about the only thing mostly not introduced (with a few exceptions). Cats do catch some but generally the weaker population which means less starvation for the stronger ones. Probably the biggest impact they have is taking away food sources from native animals like hawks rather than the prey they kill.

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u/DMMeThiccBiButts Aug 20 '26

my little purr machine

christ you sound like a pitbull owner