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Yes, this is a very sarcastic piece. It's also more than a little silly.
It's also my reaction to all the times I've heard people railing on about how awful and terrible cats are: how they're stupid, useless and destructive, and how (of course), dogs are just light-years better than cats any day of the week.
It's also amazed me that although plenty of men loudly and proudly proclaim their undying hatred of cats, you never hear of anyone hating dogs (unless they're little yapper/ankle-biter throw-rug poo-dogs).
Likewise, it also seems that every few years, there's a new crop of stories about how domestic cats are supposedly 'devastating' the environment, and how, everyone should get rid of domestic cats. It makes me think of the last time that there was a concerted effort to exterminate cats: namely in Europe in the early 1300s, and oddly enough, less than a decade later, the Black Plague had a field day.
It's also my reaction to all the times I've heard people railing on about how awful and terrible cats are: how they're stupid, useless and destructive, and how (of course), dogs are just light-years better than cats any day of the week.
It's also amazed me that although plenty of men loudly and proudly proclaim their undying hatred of cats, you never hear of anyone hating dogs (unless they're little yapper/ankle-biter throw-rug poo-dogs).
Likewise, it also seems that every few years, there's a new crop of stories about how domestic cats are supposedly 'devastating' the environment, and how, everyone should get rid of domestic cats. It makes me think of the last time that there was a concerted effort to exterminate cats: namely in Europe in the early 1300s, and oddly enough, less than a decade later, the Black Plague had a field day.
Category Poetry / Animal related (non-anthro)
Species Housecat
Size 50 x 50px
File Size 3.8 kB
First, I really loved this.
Second, domestic cats aren't the problem, as far as the environment. It's people who don't understand that you should keep your cat indoors that are the problem. Domestic cats were meant to be INDOORS. The biggest reason to keep em inside is because it lengthens their lifespan-from 3 years to 17. Never mind all the shit that can happen to your cat-I lost two of my best friends because my mom let them out on halloween. I never saw them again...so yeah, keep em indoors.
Second, domestic cats aren't the problem, as far as the environment. It's people who don't understand that you should keep your cat indoors that are the problem. Domestic cats were meant to be INDOORS. The biggest reason to keep em inside is because it lengthens their lifespan-from 3 years to 17. Never mind all the shit that can happen to your cat-I lost two of my best friends because my mom let them out on halloween. I never saw them again...so yeah, keep em indoors.
Even feral cats aren't anywhere NEAR the environmental 'threat' that the alarmists would have us believe.
Take this from someone, who has studied wildlife biology at University level. The so-called 'songbird holocaust' has actually been PROVEN to be about 80% caused by HUMANS, who eat them as a 'delicacy' in places like North Africa, the Levant, and Italy. The only places, where domestic cats have succeeded in wiping out songbirds have been on islands, where the birds had no natural predators, and had no idea how to escape cats. Likewise, in populated areas of North America, it has been proven that domestic cats have merely taken the ecological niche that was previously filled by bobcats in those areas.
In places like the US Southwest, where there is still a reservoir population of wild bobcats, they have often decided that they're going to go all 'reconquista' on their previous territory, and in places like Phoenix/Scottsdale, El Paso and San Antonio, the bobs are moving into the suburbs, and taking out most of their domestic competitors, (although the bob toms will occasionally tolerate female domestics, and breed them).
Take this from someone, who has studied wildlife biology at University level. The so-called 'songbird holocaust' has actually been PROVEN to be about 80% caused by HUMANS, who eat them as a 'delicacy' in places like North Africa, the Levant, and Italy. The only places, where domestic cats have succeeded in wiping out songbirds have been on islands, where the birds had no natural predators, and had no idea how to escape cats. Likewise, in populated areas of North America, it has been proven that domestic cats have merely taken the ecological niche that was previously filled by bobcats in those areas.
In places like the US Southwest, where there is still a reservoir population of wild bobcats, they have often decided that they're going to go all 'reconquista' on their previous territory, and in places like Phoenix/Scottsdale, El Paso and San Antonio, the bobs are moving into the suburbs, and taking out most of their domestic competitors, (although the bob toms will occasionally tolerate female domestics, and breed them).
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