Cats don't hunt only for food, they also hunt for fun. If they are keeping the rats away they aren't accomplishing that through entirely peaceful means.
You are aware the animal kingdom is kind of above peacefulness right? We are some of the only animals that act like that's always an option. It's not. You aren't making any good points so I wanted to give you something to think about before you gut-relfex respond something else poorly thought out.
It's not, but we are feeding, vaccinating and sheltering predators, thus artificially boosting their numbers.
In the wild, if there are too many predators they reduce the numbers of their prey to the point where they don't find enough to eat and their numbers go down too, allowing prey to multiply and replenish their numbers.
But since we keep feeding predators, they don't have this pressure at all. They can hunt their prey to extinction and still survive.
A free roaming cat kills between 500 and 1300 animals during its lifetime. Strays kill more.
So if you TNR a stray instead of euthanizing it, this action directly causes the death of maybe a thousand native animals, many of which are endangered, to keep one invasive predator alive because it's cute and fluffy.
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u/KingofHeroes13 6d ago
Cats don't hunt only for food, they also hunt for fun. If they are keeping the rats away they aren't accomplishing that through entirely peaceful means.