I’m sorry for you all cat lovers, I don’t know if you want to hear this but this is as far from a great idea as a really bad idea would be.
This might seem like a kind gesture, but in reality, it’s a band-aid solution that may make people feel like they’re helping while in reality they’re perpetuating the problem.
Providing food and shelter increases the chances of survival for stray cats while doing nothing to address their long-term welfare or the growing impact they have on the environment. Stray cat populations grow rapidly, and by making their living conditions slightly more tolerable, we’re only ensuring that more of them survive, reproduce, and continue the cycle. MAKING MORE STRAY CATS!!!
This leads to increased competition for resources, greater strain on local wildlife, higher risks of disease transmission, and ongoing suffering for the cats themselves.
Without real intervention, this just maintains the problem instead of solving it. Sorry. Terrible idea.
I litterally dont care what affect cats have on the environment because ours will always be worse. Theu csn kill all the birds and i still wouldnt gaf because we are the ones that destroy the planet, not them.
Ill feed the stray cats if i want to. I dont think letting them die as some sort of sacrificial beacon to thr environment is going to "fix" the problem either.
Cats ARE part of the human impact on the environment and it's our job to fix that. They're domestic animals that we introduced, and are THE biggest human related cause of bird deaths in North America. That's like it's ok to litter because something else is bigger.
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u/HyacinthusBark 6d ago
I’m sorry for you all cat lovers, I don’t know if you want to hear this but this is as far from a great idea as a really bad idea would be.
This might seem like a kind gesture, but in reality, it’s a band-aid solution that may make people feel like they’re helping while in reality they’re perpetuating the problem.
Providing food and shelter increases the chances of survival for stray cats while doing nothing to address their long-term welfare or the growing impact they have on the environment. Stray cat populations grow rapidly, and by making their living conditions slightly more tolerable, we’re only ensuring that more of them survive, reproduce, and continue the cycle. MAKING MORE STRAY CATS!!!
This leads to increased competition for resources, greater strain on local wildlife, higher risks of disease transmission, and ongoing suffering for the cats themselves.
Without real intervention, this just maintains the problem instead of solving it. Sorry. Terrible idea.